the first clinical trial — dubbed MEOW-1 (ManagEment of OverWeight cats with OKV-119)
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This seems like the wrong approach for weight control on pets
One the one hand I agree that weight control in pets should be easier as owners control most if the food. But I understand these are cats with a disease, so it might be different. Also, very food-obsessed pets might have challenging behavioral issues and even the best owner cannot always prevent some food theft or eating of inedible material by a pet with issues.
people always try to take the easy, lazy way out of problems and it always compounds and makes things worse.
Why do some minimal effort when you can spend money?
Given that people control how much food their pets get, it seems like this is actually the more difficult (and certainly more expensive) way.
I guess I could see scenarios where a home has a pet that needs to lose weight and another pet that needs to maintain (or gain) weight. That can get tricky to manage, but there are still other ways to address it.
you’d think. but dumping a huge bowl of food is easier then measuring and weighing it out. then dealing with the constant meows because not full enough.
It’s a huge problem when you have one free range grazing cat that knows it’s limits and only eats when hungry and Mr. I’ve never seen food in my life I’m wasting away human help help.
There are other solutions but sometimes that second cat is also very smart and dedicated to getting at all the food ever.
cats shouldnt lose weight quickly, they will have severe health issues. just like how a really obese person shouldnt suddenly reduced thier caloric intake severely.
Is Ozempic known specifically for causing rapid weight loss?
Yeah that’s basically its whole thing in pop culture. It has life saving uses for certain people but a lot just take it for the weight loss side effects it also has. It can even “help” people that don’t really need it lose weight which is why the main cast of the new Wicked movie is terrifyingly thin
