Please don’t consider this an approval of his chonkiness - he is at “fat camp,” which is the obviously right thing to do. Don’t overfeed your pets, people!
I get it! A friend adopted an overweight dog once, whose previous owners let free feed on cat food. Getting her to a healthy weight took a while, and everyone wants to share pet pics.
I’m sorry, but letting your cat get this large is neglect or abuse or both.
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.
Right, it would be the place he was rescued from (if a previous owner) that abused or neglected him.
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.
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
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.
Because cats just normally turn up in hospital basements…
Uuh yeah, when people put a cat somewhere with no way to escape, then it will probably be in that basement… If people were feeding it, then it probably wasnt “accidentally” kept there.
I wonder if they shaved him before or during the shoe rack, and is he eating out of a crock? This seems like a Southpark episode for some reason. Next they’re going to say he snuck an amusement park in…
I looked up the full article about his case and they wrote that the shaving happened because he has to walk on a treadmill to help him loose weight. They submerged that treadmill under some water to help ease stress on the poor cat’s joints. They also take him getting stuck as a good sign because he used to be so fat he wasn’t able to move at all and his attempt at escape is proof that he’s becoming more energetic.
Forced to run on a wet treadmill, no wonder poor baby tried to run haha! I can’t wait to see his progress
Crumbs does not enjoy treadmill time.
