this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

”I ate the Sheriff, and then I ate the Deputy.”

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

-Blob Marley

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's funny but it's also very sad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

At a certain point the fatness doesn't matter.

I can basically guarantee you that this cat has untreated diabetes and will die from it, if CKD doesn't kill it first. But that is true of much smaller fat cats. By the time the animal has ballooned up to big proportions, it means years of eating shit dry food and almost certainly not getting enough water. So if they don't have diabetes yet, they probably have kidney issues already. I guess you could give your cat insulin everyday... but I doubt many people are about that...

Cats aren't meant to eat dry food, they barely drink water in nature and get the vast majority of their liquids from food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's a reasonable alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wet food. There's varying degrees of quality, but even the worst wet food is better than the best dry food.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The heckin'est of chonkers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

That feline is not a sheriff.

He's a king.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Meowdy Purrtner!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Cat you've got fat