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July 04, 2004

Another Fat Cat

And again, from Germany... From Reuters:


A Berlin animal shelter is trying to wean a 31-pound cat off its daily diet of oily tuna fish, hoping the obese animal's health will improve enough to find it a new home.

Peter, the second grossly overweight cat the shelter has received in recent months, has trouble moving and cleaning himself because of his swollen body, spokeswoman Claudia Pfister said.

"Peter doesn't like the taste of the diet food and will only eat tuna fish," she said, adding the cat was at least 20 pounds overweight.

She said his elderly owner, who died recently, spoiled him with large daily helpings of tuna. "We're giving him his tuna fish now, but only diet-sized portions and without the oil."


31 pounds? Ghod! Don't people have a clue that overfeeding an animal isn't healthy? That a cat that can barely walk is suffering?

Posted by Jeff Soyer at July 4, 2004 08:22 AM
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