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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2013, 21:21:06 PM »
It's good to hear that bella has slimmed down without you needing to take drastic action.

Alfie is still a little porker. On the first day of his 'diet' he opened the drawer in the coffee table and ate a whole pot full of Dreamies  :rofl:

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2013, 21:44:27 PM »
Just thought id update, she lost lots of weight the week she was poorly and shes been kept as an indoor cat since.  Funnily enough weve been feeding her the same food we always have done so wet and even with her being inside shes looking normal (meaning not a barrel on legs). We'll get her weighed in jan when shes due her boosters at the vets but I think were just going to have a tubby cat due to her visiting others during summer and a slimmer cat over winter

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2013, 23:30:20 PM »
She must be very petite if she's overweight at that weight. Jaffa and Mosi are both almost 5kg and both are very slender.

I respectfully disagree with your vet re dry food! I don't think vets are very knowledgeable about nutrition tbh. I think dry food is more likely to put in weight due to the carbs.
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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2013, 12:52:32 PM »
She must be very petite if she's overweight at that weight. Jaffa and Mosi are both almost 5kg and both are very slender.

I respectfully disagree with your vet re dry food! I don't think vets are very knowledgeable about nutrition tbh. I think dry food is more likely to put in weight due to the carbs.

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2013, 18:22:34 PM »
She is tiny although slightly roundish in shape at the moment. She is a small cat so her being that weight is really to much for her

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2013, 15:54:40 PM »
Cleo's about 3.4kg and she's very petite.

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2013, 15:51:50 PM »
That sounds tiny!  :shify: Does she have a tiny frame???

Denzel is about 3.5 I think, and in my opinion pretty slender  :shocked:
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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2013, 13:49:42 PM »
It's probably ok for a while but the problem is they do tend to get addicted to dry food. Xander won't eat any wet food now, nothing not even fresh organic chicken or tuna. I do worry about his diet, he used to eat quite a few different things but as he's got older he won't try anything new. 

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2013, 12:15:28 PM »
They didnt try to sell us anything or get us to switch foods, not sure what to do now as dh is saying thats what they've told us so thats what we need to do

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2013, 12:01:06 PM »
Think you got duff advice there, unless of course they are on commission for a certain brand of "prescription" dry food?
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Before and after photos needed.  I don't think that's too heavy.  Thing is, vets, unlike doctors can not blame everything on drinking and smoking, so it only leaves being over weight to blame  :evillaugh:

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2013, 22:38:14 PM »
3.5kg? I'd have to chop Tiffany's legs off to get her down to that :-[
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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2013, 22:01:06 PM »
Think you got duff advice there, unless of course they are on commission for a certain brand of "prescription" dry food?

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2013, 18:38:01 PM »
Oh well. Can't do that then as His Gingerness is on raw food to stop his gingivitis flaring up.

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2013, 18:08:49 PM »
Really? That sounds like the opposite of everything I've heard before. :shocked:

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2013, 17:42:49 PM »
She weighs over 3.5 kg and should weigh about 2.5kg the nurse said to cut out her wet food and only give her dry food and take her back in a month for re weighing. I thought they'd have said cut out the dry food but we'll just have to see I guess

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2013, 07:48:01 AM »
Same here, Sly can't exercise because of his wobbly legs and Polly's also a bit rotund these days (although she's spritely enough) so any hints will be welcome.  :shy:

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2013, 07:45:11 AM »
I'll be interested to hear what they say as Simba is a heavy old lump yet the vet said his weight was ok when I took him a couple of weeks ago.

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2013, 20:39:52 PM »
that's what Tiffany needs too, if only I was strong enough to carry her to the vets :shify:

dh is off work tomorrow so he can carry her, spoke to the nurse and they said the first thng they'll do is weigh her and then discuss her diet, really just want to know how worried i should be about her weight. she has slowly lost some as i've been able to find who she's having extra meals with and asked them to stop feeding her but i know she's going somewhere else as well just cant find out where, dh is on about fitting her with gps just to figure it out  :rofl:

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2013, 20:32:35 PM »
Will be interested to hear how you get on as my two are a bit on the plump side. Then again I've heard 'The first rule of Fat Club is you do not talk about fat club'

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2013, 20:27:47 PM »
And Alfs, I'm afraid!  :-[

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Re: bellas of to fat club
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2013, 16:32:05 PM »
that's what Tiffany needs too, if only I was strong enough to carry her to the vets :shify:
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bellas of to fat club
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2013, 15:16:01 PM »
Me and dh have both agreed we need to do something about her weight. Shes looking like a barrel with legs at the moment so asked the vet and they run a fat club so she's having her first visit tomorrow

 


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