Fat Cats

lol mine weighs in at 37 pounds ( hes not overweight ) just a nowergian forest cat !!

The heaviest one I have had was 31-33lbs (he was 31lbs on his official weigh in but we had him two weeks already and he lost a bit not eating / hiding etc). He is now 20.5lbs and still the heaviest of mine and still overweight

The heaviest healthy cat I have personally seen was 26lbs and Maine Coon (and a beauty)

My RB boy was 23 pounds at his heaviest, took me over a year to finally get him down to 14-15 pounds and he was still chubby.

Your NFC must me freakishly large for his breed at 37 pounds considering male NFCs should only weigh 20-25 pounds, around the same size as the Maine Coon, and females should be in the 12 to 15 pound range.
I'd love to see pics of him

I have a very petite (runty and poorly nourished as a weanling) female NFC that only weighed 9 pounds at her fatest.

Jasmine, my torti- point Colorpoint (they are supposed to be slim cats) She was 29.7lbs lbs when I adopted her. (pushing 30 -to edit i just pulled her chart and yup- she was almost 30 lbs!))Her previous owners had allowed her to become inasnely overweight. The vet classified her as morbidly obease. I've seen much worse at the shelter where i work- it is soo cruel to allow an animal to become moribly obease.

Since i've had her- we've had her on good quality food, strict feeding schedules and i've made she she gets plenty of exercise. She is now down around 14lbs i believe. I am actually taking her back to work with me this afternoon to bathe her and microchip her so while she' there i'll weigh her. It's taken a long time to safely help her shed the weight- but she's never looked sooo good! I've worked hard to try and get her in good shape to avoid health issues/etc.

Also in a side note- because she was soo obease when I adopted her- she can not groom her bottom well (even though she's lots a LOT). When pets are allowed to get overweight -it can cause UTI issues in addition to a plethera of other problems. When they can't clean their bottoms- the fecal matter can get trapped on the fur and enter the urethera area- causing UTI issues. Jasmine recently had a 2 month bout with them a while back and it was soo sad. (keep in mind i clean her every day). She's going good now- but we are strict about keeping her clean. Today she needs a bath though -so that's what we're going to do!

In my opinon- allowing an animal to become obease is just as cruel as starving one - i've seen both sides of the coin at the shelter where i work- both are just as cruel

We've had 2 tuxedo cats (both are gone now) and each of them weighed in from 20-22 lbs, altho Puddin' was mostly muscle and Sophie was a chubs. At the moment our Rufus is about that weight range, too; he's not fat and he's not muscle---he's just a good solid mass of cat.

The heaviest I have owned is Max. I don't know his exact weight but he has to weigh around 15-20 pounds and he isn't obese....just a big kitty with muscles. When we had a doxie over he was bigger (by height and weight) than her.

Harley is my heaviest, at around 17lbs Not overweight, he's at a healthy weight.

I couldn't agree more!
My poor old boy got obese because my ex loved that cat to pieces, and showed his love by feeding him

He never understood how abusive this actually was until poor B.C. suffered three strokes in a year's time.

Shadow is a tortie and 18 lbs Is that overwieght for a tortie?? If yes how much should she weigh??

Tortie is just a color, not a breed
It really depends on her build.

The best person to ask is your vet.
In the meatime, here is a visual guide to body condition.
http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IA...&articleID=333

I met Buck the red tabby DSH when he weighed 24 pounds. He had been up to 36 pounds! He was a naturally large cat and other visitors to his garden thought he was a bobcat and were concerned when I sat down and started to pet him. He had been leashed to a little sapling so he wouldn't bother people.

He was a loverboy, too.

ty arlyn, what breed does the tortie actually belong to???

I think he was around 24 lbs. He was a huge cat! An orange cat, he wasn't necessarily fat, just HUGE! He looked like your average DSH cat.

Torties can belong to many breeds, and most cats are just domestic long/medium/short hairs and are not any breed. Some have breed traits that make them generally bigger cats, like Maine Coons and Norwegian Forest Cats and others.

Links to different breeds can be found here

I agree, I have seen both sides with the cats I own, and while it is a lot easier to get a starving cat to eat and gain weight than an obese cat to lose weight, the health problems that can arise because of either are horrible.

There is a website out there for people who have obese cats that was once a place to share ideas and stories but more and more is 'look at my cat isn't he/she so cute' when the cat is so obese it can't move and the people don't see the problem. It makes me sad because as cute as the cats are, after getting Scully I know what pain the cat is probably going through.

Probably a neighbours cat [don't have a picture of him]-he is a massive one eyed tabby boy,have really never seen any cat like him,he's not obese but is a massively framed cat.

And Blackie-
She had cat flu before being found by the cats protection league as a kitten and she developed chronic bronchitis,the meds and steroids she was on made her fat and special diets never helped.

Biggest cat I owned was a 15 lbs Bengal mix. My ex still has him.

The biggest Ive seen was a 25 lbs cat that came into our rescue. He is now still very fat but only weighs 15 lbs. We are working on getting him to loose more weight.

My RB kitty, Leo, a lovely orange tabby, was 23 lbs. at his biggest. He was not fat, he was just a huge cat. His shoulder was almost up to my knee. He had muscles like a jungle cat. Several people that caame to my house were a little afraid of him until they found out what a lovebug he was.
His vet said he could have even held a little more weight for his frame a build, and not be fat or out of shape. He had some Maine Coon in his ancestry according to the vet. I found him in a parking lot of a Petsmart in Kansas City.

very well said

another thing that irritates me is that people just do not research what they are feeding their animals (let alone themselves many times). They feed them the equivalent of junk food and then wonder why they develop health issues. If people would just take a little time and research......many animals would be much better off. I'm sure many people love their animals- but they would get to enjoy soo many more years with them if they took the time to do a simple thing like making sure their food is appropriate for their health needs.

Trout is only 8 lbs

I have a cat thats about 25 pounds. He really isn't that fat though, just built big.

Cierron won't stay still long enough for me to weigh him O.o but he's pretty light. My biggest cat is Caspian, he's pretty chubby but I don't think obese. I don't want to put him on a diet because the other two are skinny and I can't feed them separate ^^

I don't think that is completely fair, because some (and probably many) obese cats are put on vet diets that perpetuate the problem, and people are researching by asking what should be an expert.

It takes a lot to say to a vet "no you are wrong in this and I am doing this" and I have changed vets over the decision.

A good point to remember is that every 1lb a cat is overweight is like 10-15lbs a human is overweight depending on the body shape of the cat. Also, from the literature I have from my vet, only 5-10% of the cats brought in as chubby / big etc are classed as slightly overweight, many owners say they are chubby when they are obese.

The last time I weighted Limerick, he was at 20lbs!!! He down to 18 but needs to get down to 15.

You must post a picture! I have to see this 37 pound cat!

One of the house cats at Animal Aid named Gizmo, he was a surrender from an elderly couple who couldn't look after him anymore, he's been there at least a few years now. I'm not sure if he was overweight when he was brought in, or if he got overfed by all the volunteers. He is nicknamed 'Speedhump' because he would lay out in the dirt driveway and look like a lump when cars came in giving you a look of "do you think i'm going to move??" he weighed a TONNE!! And the long fur didn't make him look any slimmer. He also had a temper. I mean, lunchtimes i'd sit outside the cattery and give him a lap and scritches, but if you wiggled a foot or a finger too much you'd lose it

I never knew his weight, but i'd say he looked this size (but with long thick fur) http://69.89.25.199/~tomatona/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/fat1.jpg

i think maybe 20 punds, but she was a petite little thing so her belly practically rubbed against the ground. she was afraid of her own shadow so it was hard to exercise her. she lived to be 18 years old. my damian i think is 16 pounds (i'm so bad, we were just at the vet and i forget already) and he told me that damian was fat and needed to lose weight. i said, hey, he's not fat, he's fluffy (he's a domestic long hair) lol. i can only control what he eats inside, he's a hunter on the outside! he slims down every winter because his poor prescious feet don't like the cold, lol, so he stays inside the whole time so no mice in his diet. once spring comes, he gets fat again.

I took Theodora to the annual vaccines just today, she is 18.3 lbs.
She does have a lot of skin hanging from her belly that makes it look like it is almost rubbing the floor ! ;-)
Although I keep her on w/d as her everyday diet, her doc thinks she is ok.
I have 2 kittens in the house who eat kitty food, and Theo manages to steal some almost everyday.... I guess she will lose a couple of pounds when she doesn't have the extra treat to steal.

Bootsie, the cat we had when I was growing up, weighed about 28 pounds. He was the runt of a litter of barn cats. He lived to be 22 1/2 years old! After Bootsie, all of my kitties have been rather petite. Spooky was 6 pounds at her heaviest. Lola weighs 7.2 pounds, Maggie is 7.8 pounds and Cleo is my tubby at 11.4 pounds. I have a digital baby scale that I weigh them on weekly. With two renal failure kitties, it's important to stay on top of their weights!