grain free helped my cat’s weight problem a lot! and they are much more pleasant to be around!

Anyone knowing what they’re talking about won’t claim dry food is ever good for a cat, because it really isn’t.

We feed our cats a mix of wet and hard food. They get a small amount of hard food each morning and each night. They get a half a can of wet food (with some water added) for dinner. This has worked really well for our two cats. My wife is a vet.

The rise of indoor-only cats certainly contributes to this matter. A feline that is in the great outdoors hunting for the next sacrifice is expending that energy. Inside the home their lack of exercise fuels an impressive Jabba the Hutt impersonation.

I am a veterinary and biomedical science student and have worked at a veterinarian’s office for 4 years now. Royal Canin and Science Diet are some of the best on the market, along with Purina. Unfortunately, big companies such as Blue Buffalo have a lot of money invested in marketing, and not so much in research as…

Minimum quality choice should be Diamond Naturals. Beyond that, Blue Buffalo, Blue Wilderness, Taste of the Wild, etc are all valid choices.

My vet doesn’t have this problem. Then they sell me some extremely expensive diet cat food that the cats won’t fucking touch. Which would solve the fat cat problem, except then they let me know how hungry they are. Constantly. Loudly. In an apartment with nowhere to put them, even if I were into imprisoning my beloved…

You missed the best cat name / dictator pun!

We just last week had to put our cat down because of complications from diabetes. He was fat originally. As an adopted stray, he had food issues; feast and famine type of thing. We portioned out his food, but he found a neighbor’s cat’s stash that wasn’t monitored and kept on growing. So he got almost 17 pounds at one…

I’ve heard a lot of people say wet food and more water help cats lose weight. I let my cat drink out of the tap as frequently as possible, but lots of people use cat fountains, too.

If my cat had things her way, she’d be eating the cat-version of junk food all day, every day. She treats the non-allergenic dry food that I get from the vet as non-food. She sits by her full cup, looking at me like it’s empty. She meows at me in a demanding, almost commanding, tone. She harasses me, follows my every…

Gotta be honest. I completely misread the headline and took it to mean veterans. Like WTF does the army care what you do with your cat? Made the article more interesting though.

You mean Fatticus Maxiumus here eating all his food and then muscling his sister out of the way to eat her food SOMEHOW MADE HIM FAT? HOW DARE YOU, SIR!

You can trace this problem directly to the day when people found out cats love lasagna.

My husband was overfeeding our cat because he’s a total pushover. I had to take him to our vet appointment, so the vet could talk some sense into him. The vet pointed to an obesity chart on the wall, and told him that the cat needed to be about a 4 or 5 on that scale, and my husband realized how far off from the norm…

How did you miss the “Chairman Meow” joke?

You plainly do not understand, they are not fat, they are starving waifs about to expire from hunger. See?

Ugh so tired of this “sensitivity” bullshit, especially when it’s related to health issues.

So it has come to bodyshaming cats now. What a world.

Is this really that hard of a topic? Our rescue cat was gaining about 2 lbs in 2 consecutive vet visits, he asked how much we feed her, we answered, and he suggested a slightly lower amount and now the cat is tracking back down to a healthy weight. Hell, I wish it was that simple with our doctors.