'Monster' Cat In China Weighs 33 Pounds

The cat's owner said it has no interest in eating fish but prefers to eat
six pounds of chicken and pork each day.

NanCe via CatKB.com...

I have a hard time believing it is healthy - according to who, the owner?
How would he even clean himself! Friggin' sad.

kilikini...

I saw this on CNN! The poor cat can't even jump on the bed to take a nap;
the slave has to carry him and place him there! This cat looks more like a
hairy puffer fish than a cat. It's terrible.

Gee I wonder why he is a fat cat

Magic Mood Jeep©...

I saw this creature on Fox News (Fox Report with Shepherd Smith), poor kitty
has a 31.5 inch waist - can't stand up for very long, and is unable to even
climb up the steps they made/bought so that it can get onto their bed - poor
thing would get up one step and stop, and they would lift him/her the rest
of the way. And it's not chicken and pork, it's chicken and PORT (as in the
wine)

search for "Big Boned", which is the title of the clip. It's also under
Free Video under the title of Skinnerville.

D....

Poor thing. :(

claudel...

I saw that.

I'll never again refer to Bubba as "fat".

PawsForThought...

I saw this on the news this morning. Poor kitty, it was really
pathetic that anyone would let their cat get that fat :(

sriddles...

Poor thing. Cherokee was 25 lbs but he didn't look anything like that!

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

It's not about how the cat looks, though. It's about whether the cat's
weight is affecting its health.

Christina Websell...

I agree. However, there is an "ideal weight for size" for humans, cats,
dogs etc. If this is exceeded too much it will certainly affect health.

It makes me suspicious whenever someone tells me, "I'm just concerned for
your *health*", when they suggest I lose some weight - when I know that
what they really mean is that they don't like my looks. I am pretty healthy,
after all. (And I'm not young.)

Christina Websell...

You are an adult, it's up to you to control your weight, or not. You know
the score.
I got very thin when I was ill. Now it would not hurt me to lose 7lbs.

Monique Y. Mudama...

Ah, yes, my mom's favorite tactic.

She's been good lately, though. Obviously making an effort to bite
her tongue, but I really do appreciate it.

It's really frustrating because while, yes, she wears a smaller size
than I do, she is also extremely inflexible, prone to falls, and
generally out of shape -- and she smokes. I'm much more worried about
her health than about mine.

Anyway, I don't think the issues are the same for humans and felines.
Human bodies can adapt to storing a lot of fat, and it doesn't mean one
is unhealthy (contrary to popular myth). But cats really can't tolerate a

Christina Websell...

I never heard this. Where did you get this from?

lot of fat in their system, as it can lead to fatty liver syndrome and a
host of other problems. Also, a fat person can choose to exercise more,
to build up their muscles so they can carry their weight better and not
suffer so much damage to their knees and so forth. A cat isn't going to

Christina Websell...

But how often does this happen? Very fat people find it very difficult to
exercise. I have a friend who weighs probably 28 stones (14lbs = 1 stone.)
It's a Catch 22 situation. She needs to exercise to get her weight down but
she is already too heavy to exercise.

Monique Y. Mudama...

There's a book by Covert Bailey that addresses, among other things,
exercise for overweight people. He recommends walking at a moderate
pace. It's absolutely true that a very overweight person is going to
find it difficult to join an aerobics class or similar. But there are
other exercises. He even claims that moderate exercise is better for
weight loss than intense exercise.

I'm not sure about fat people building up their muscles to protect
their knees. I would be surprised by this. It's extremely hard for
even a fit person with knee problems to improve them via physical
therapy exercises.

do that. And since a person is in control of their diet, they can choose
whether to eat healthful food or not (which doesn't necessarily determine
one's weight, but certainly can affect one's health). A domestic cat cannot.

Still, when I hear someone talking about how bad a fat cat *looks*, I
wonder if we're not just projecting our own prejudices on the cat (and
by extension, onto their human caretaker). Someone else compared the cat

Christina Websell...

I don't see any prejudice, it's a bad idea to allow your cat to get fat. I
think you are saying this because you let yourself get fat and want us to
say it's OK.
You will now hate me. Kitty says even if so, can she still be Licky's
girlfriend? and she says she didn't get a Valentine.

Tweed

We are in charge of our cats. We can control their diet.

Someone else compared the cat

in China to a bloated tick. We don't really need to go there, do we?

kilikini...

Didn't it? My husband and I sat there watching the program, eyes huge and
mouth dropped open. That cat weighs more than all three of mine combined!
6 pounds of chicken a day? My hubby did the math and said that's about 2
whole roasters for that cat every day. When we roast a chicken for us, 1
single chicken, it lasts for 3 meals.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

I didn't mean that the cat weighing 33 lbs was a hoax, but that he ate
6 lbs of meat a day seems like an exaggeration.

hamandcheese...

I saw it on TV as well and noticed that even when just lying there his
breathing was labored.

sriddles...

No, I'm not projecting anything of the sort. I just didn't elaborate or
perhaps choose my words well. By the way the cat "looks" I don't mean
the asthetic beauty, I mean that fat cats "look" miserable and unable
to be active. Cherokee didn't look that way. At 25 lbs, he was big, he
was overweight, but not to the extent I would have considered him
morbidly obese. He died at 17 and was still as active as any cat I've
had.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Ah... thank you for clarifying.

Come to think of it, there are *people* who are overweight, and then
there's people who likewise look miserable and unable to be active.
But if someone told me I needed to lose weight for my health, I'm
afraid I'd be pretty annoyed and suggest they MYOB.

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Yeah, altogether too many people seem to feel entitled to weigh in, excuse
the pun, with their unwanted opinion!

sriddles...

That goes both ways, too. People think it is perfectly acceptable (and
even complimentary) to say things like "If you don't gain weight you
are going to blow away" et. etc. After I had surgery I lost a lot of

meee...

yes I had to put up with this one, and many 'anorexia related' puns as a
teenager, even though I ate like a horse (which of course made everyone at
school whisper that I was bulimic) Fortunately 2 kids and 10 years have
restored me to social acceptable-ness!! (???) pity our society is still so
superficial....or that a small percentage seems to think they have the right
to set a 'standard' for 'normality'

NMR...

I love a woman with a little meat on the bones :-D
Got to have the handles No I won't finish that sentence in fear of not
waking up

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

Well, I think that's pretty rude! I guess really thinness-obsessed
people would consider it a compliment, which is a sad comment on them,
isn't it?

Or how about this one: after someone's been sick, saying to them, "Hey,
you look great, have you lost weight?" Yeah, sure, it's called the
Chemotherapy Diet. Duh!

weight. I got sick of the comments like that. You would *never* say
something like that to someone who needed to *lose* weight, but somehow

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

You'd be surprised how many people do indeed say that! You might never
say it, and I commend you for that, but there are a lot of clods in the
world. As you have unfortunately experienced!

they thought criticism of the opposite was okay to say to someone.