You should also keep him away from wine bottles.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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If this is the way your cat is about food, it’s not that they need to change to lose weight. You need to change the food they’re eating. Cats are a little unique in that they don’t stop eating when they get full, like we do. They stop eating when their nutritional needs are met. Dry food for cats is like fast food for us. It’s not what they should be eating. They should be eating a high protein, low carb diet. Kibble is pretty much the worst vessel for that nutritional balance.
Raw is best. Primal makes good stuff. Small batch, vital essentials. Stella and chewy’s is still better than dry, but they do use vitamin packs to round out the diet instead of whole food sources. There are a lot of cooked whole food diets now, which is still better than kibble. Canned is in the same category.
My cat eats raw and has her whole life, basically. She sleeps later than I do, eats her meals as she pleases after the bowl is out, throughout the day. She doesn’t bug me about food. She gets excited when the food and treats are opened, but she never seems to be dying for food like so many cats do.
Feed your cats well! You start to notice how fluffy and shiny their coats get, how much happier and healthier they seem. Even if you can’t go full whole food, do as much as possible! Kibble should be pretty much as discouraged as a food that can keep them alive should be. They need moisture from their food and they need primarily meat. They’re obligate carnivores!
You sound like my friend on the carnivore diet
As a person like that, I'll apologise on their behalf. We mostly find carnivore through illness and it fixes it, we want everyone around us to feel as good as we do. It's hard to keep quiet.
We had two cats. Fed them the exact same way. One got fat and had diabetes, and eventually died because she swallowed something that was not food that got stuck in her intestines. The other cat, he has always maintained a healthy weight. I think it all came down to some kind of feline anxiety though, where she was always seeming anxious, right down to being overprotective of food, and he's incredibly chill and always has been, except when neighborhood cats wander on our property.
We always opted for Fancy Feast pate, had looked them up when the diabetes first showed up, and they're apparently high protein, low carb, and they served us well enough. We mix in some other stuff from time to time for variety, but that's the bulk of it. I'm interested in this Primal though, definitely going to have a look. He is now somewhere in the 13ish range, dunno for certain since he was a street urchin when my wife found him, but we're trying to let him live a long, healthy life, in spite of his urge to die on the streets somewhere.
Garfield-level lifehack.
The bottle on the ground behind him really sells it.
On a diet or hung over?
Alcohol diet. Not as in reducing alcohol consumption, but replacing the food with alcohol.
If I had a hamburger machine on a timer in my house, I'd probably do the same thing.
All the best to Mr Chonker and his magic food machine
I did the same years ago, but to ensure I can sleep past 4am. Cat won't stop yelling extremely early in the morning... and when I'm up, I'm up.
Do they tear ass when it goes off, like I see on YouTube?
Yeah he will launch off the bed like it's world war 3
Thats also why i got one. Game changer