Having a fat cat isn't all that bad. Granted, it's bad for them, or any critter, with two or four legs (or more), but if the cat is young, like Velvet, you just have more warm, soft, furry, purry kitty to snuggle with. However, as they get older a host of ailments can crop up, so this will not do. Velvet is going on a diet.

First of all, her favorite dry crunchies, Eukanuba good ones, are going by the wayside, replaced with Iams low-calorie ones, and as she eats mostly dry, problem solved. Right?

Wrong.

She just eats more. What self respecting canopener (bagopener) could possibly not appease those sad, hungry eyes... not to mention the Siamese-like yowl... yowl... YOWL!

I'll get it off her somehow, and it's my fault for letting her get fat in the first place, but she is still very active, and I think it runs in her family. Also when I got owned by her at just 10 weeks of age, she was sick, injured, abandoned, and starved almost to death. Maybe she never wanted to be hungry again.

She does love to be cuddled, and likes a "pick-me-up" frequently.

Velvet: "Meurrrrrow?"

Canopener: "Velvet!"

Velvet: "Murrrrrroooww?"

Canopener: "OK, come for snuggles... (OOOF!)" {{canopener picks up 18 pound cat}}.

My arms seem to be stronger from picking her up now, and I swear I've lost weight. Could this be a feline diet and exercise plan for humans? I wonder...

Copyright © Bill Mason
October 11, 2001