Aww that poor chungus. I hope he gets better.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
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17.237kg
oh meow god
Everything in that title sounds like something from a 90s movie.
His face in the picture of him in the rack screams "I really need to lose weight."
Wow, a good story from russia in this day and age. Good luck to Crumbs.
Poor guy, heartbreaking to see
Aww... he was too chonky to escape chonk camp. Cute, (not so) little chonky Chonk. I hope he learns a lot at camp and comes out a healthy one.
Oh, Crumbs...
Crumbs is such a cute name, but a little small when he's the whole loaf
It's an ironic name. Like the burly gangster named "Tiny".
Shouldve renamed him to baguette
For me he is giving Batard energy.
Oh wow that's a good one
I'm sorry, but letting your cat get this large is neglect or abuse or both.
Why did you think that the tweet called him a "rescue cat?" They sure didn't save him from a tree.
I don't really understand how cats even can get this large. I've kept a number of cats and always just fed them dry food in big bowls or auto-feed dispensers where they could eat as much as they wanted whenever they wanted it, and they always stayed a normal weight.
I've had two kitties that got one or two pounds overweight and both were long-hairs. I always figured that cats that are built for colder weather have an instinct to eat and bulk up in case of food scarcity. My short-hair kitty has stayed slender which, to me, seems to back that up. But I don't know anything scientific or medical, it's just an observation.
Probably a similar reason to humans. A cat in a healthy environment will regulate itself, but when stressed it may form eating disorders from using food as a coping mechanism. Or when given unhealthy food that has imbalanced nutrition
Cats will actually eat until they get the necessary nutrients from their food, unlike us where we stop when we’re full, regardless of how good the food actually is. So a cat free feeding terrible food can become obese fairly easily.
Kibble is the absolute worst thing you can feed cats. It’s usually at least half fillers and binders. They’re obligate carnivores so raw meat or high quality canned food where it’s mostly meat with some hydrating broth or something is as good as it gets for them.
A fellow ZeFrank enjoyer, perhaps? The obligate carnivore thing is so important to remember. I have a vegan friend who feeds her animals plant-based foods and her dog is underweight and her cat is overweight. Absolutely hate to see it, but adults apparently don't respond well to being told that their pets with completely different physiology and no choice in what they're fed won't live their best lives on a vegan diet.
This might be a little too tangential and not your area of expertise at all…
Is there a reason why we can’t make a plant-based diet that has the same nutrition as meat? I assume there must be otherwise I think that idea would take off more.
I actually don’t know what that is! I got all this knowledge working in the pet food industry. Vegetarian diets are such a bummer. Like, if you get an animal, it’s on you to adapt to their needs, not them adapting to your principles! I get that it’s hard for some vegans/vegetarians to handle meat—but in that case…don’t get an animal that needs it lol
There’s unfortunately so much misinformation, and a lot of it is pushed by the kibble companies. Did you know that most veterinarian schools are at least partially funded by purina, Iams, etc? The fact that most vets offices sell science diet for insane markups should be a huge tip off. So unfortunately the lies run deep. It’s not surprising so many people fall for it—like the myth that kibble cleans your pet’s teeth!? What poppycock! Do crackers and croutons clean our teeth? Hell no. And there is an enzyme in the saliva of dogs that actually turns the necessary starches to bind kibble into sugar. Hence the pandemic of tooth decay in so many.
He was abandoned in the basement of a hospital living on cookies and soup.
He was not abandoned, he was overfed by humans. Says so right in the article.
It’s believed that hospital staff enjoyed feeding him to the point where things went more than a little overboard.
Don't be sorry, it's true.
Says he's a rescue. I'm assuming the person who sent him to fat camp isn't the person who let him become obese.
Aha, thanks for pointing that out!
Right, it would be the place he was rescued from (if a previous owner) that abused or neglected him.
Can you describe the ruckus?
Large, bald, black, no relation
Has reverse vitiligo.
102% african with a 2% margin of error
Watch your tongue, young man, watch it! 🫵
You may book on that, missy.
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