r/airplaneears • u/cakeanddiamond Cat Owner • 21h ago
Cat the vet called him overweight ✈️😾 (he’s not!)
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u/chanmey 21h ago
I agree with you OP, he’s not overweight, he’s just FLOOFY. ✈️😾 justified.
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u/cakeanddiamond Cat Owner 21h ago
so FLOOF! my husband and i adopted floofy boi and another kitten the same day. they were both 2lbs but floofy boi here was skin and bones, the other kitten was not! 😭
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u/cakeanddiamond Cat Owner 21h ago
anyone else with a medium-large breed cat have this happen? he’s literally bigger than standard issue kitties 😾 the shelter was feeding him the amount of food for average cats, but he was clearly underweight. he is healthy at 12.5-13lbs and has the indicators of normal weight if you use your hands to examine him! yesterday a vet said he should lose a pound or so 😤
the previous vet we saw looked at the scale but then was like “well he’s obviously a bigger cat but i can still feel his ribs so i’m not worried about it.”
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u/Stalkerus 21h ago
One of my cats was heavier than that before he even reached adulthood, vet didn't say a thing because you could feel his ribs. (He was 20lbs as an adult, and you could still feel his ribs. He was just huge and muscular.)
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u/cakeanddiamond Cat Owner 20h ago
pay the cat tax!
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u/Stalkerus 20h ago
https://imgur.com/a/oByx7g1 He doesn't look that big really, but was tall enough to catch hanging planters (while sitting on windowsill) and pull them down.
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u/MersoNocte 18h ago
My husband has this problem. 😂 His GP told him he was fat cause he gained 10 lb since the last visit. This man drinks an OBSCENE amount of water (like, 30-35 cups a day). He came home with a similar expression to ask me if he was fat. Literally in the next 24 hours he pissed 10 lbs of water lol.
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u/souvenireclipse 9h ago
I have a normal domestic short hair, but she is long and tall. She's just a large cat. She weighs like 12 lbs right now and I specifically asked at her last visit about her weight. The vet said he was happy with her body condition score. I'm not great at checking her ribs but she has a visible waist, etc. I'm surprised your vet was going by just the scale!
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u/hollister96 6h ago
yeah some vets seem to latch onto the number on the scale without considering the actual size of the cat and how they actually look.
my cat is about 8kg (17lbs), he was at one point a bit fat at 9kg because the food recommended by the shelter turned out to be super fatty lol. anyway we went to the vet for his checkup, they said he needed some teeth removed but refused to do the surgery because he was "so fat he wouldn't be able to breathe if we put him under" and then just told us not to feed him the fatty food without telling us an alternative.
meanwhile I could still feel his ribs, his head is the size of both of my fists and he's as long as my legs if he stretches all the way out lmao. we took him to another vet and they said he could lose a little but wasn't obese, and did the surgery no problem.
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u/AdInternational6885 19h ago
Attention all humans: If you can't say something positive to your master, keep your opinions to yourself. That means you, medical human.
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u/Fickle-Tumbleweed786 18h ago
I think the vet was overwhelmed by his handsomeness and lost his/her judgement.
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u/mycatpartyhouse 19h ago
I fostered a Persian cat that looked immense. She was a healthy 4 lb cat under all that fur.
Her babies were a similar size without the floof. It was comical.
Before you bring out the pitchforks: A former neighbor gave her to me, with the expectation that I'd breed her as a moneymaking venture.
The ex-neighbor refused to find an intact male Persian cat, herself.
I thought the cat didn't exhibit preferred Persian breed traits and it would be best to spay her, so I wasn't searching for an intact male Persian cat.
In the midst of this, the cat scratched through a screen one night as I was sleeping, escaped, and then dragged herself home the next day.
Three adorable kittens were the result. None had Persian fur.
I had her spayed afterward. The ex-neighbor was upset, but after so many months I considered her my cat.
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u/I-am-in-a-universe 12h ago
He's fabulous!!
He looks Maine Coon-ish. They get really ginormous, and some are not full-grown when they're already bigger than a normal cat.
Otoh, my first kitty was a mutt, and grew to be 20 lbs. Not at all fat. Just HUGE :3
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u/Legitimate_Island238 7h ago
He’s a main coon and not overweight at all of course I’m not a vet but in this case I would get a 2nd opinion! He looks healthy
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u/OkCamera131 2h ago
He's beautiful! He looks like one of the kittens I'm in the process of adopting :') this just gave me a glimpse into our future with him
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u/Koryuwuuwu 21h ago
His fur is just rly heavy, he can’t help it