Are my cats at a healthy weight?

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I want to know if my cats are at a healthy weight. Here are their pictures and weight:

Pepper, my special needs kitty, is 9 years old and weighs 10 pounds.


Smokey is almost 9 years old and weighs 15.7 pounds.


George is 2 years old and weighs 17.5 pounds. A little on the big side?



Missy (George's cousin) is 8.6 pounds and is a little over 1 years old. She appears to be at a good weight, but she is really small! Her brother I adopted out is nearly twice her size so could she be the runt?


That is all of them! Are their weights okay? I am good at getting cats to gain weight, but not so much at getting them to lose weight. 

Thank you!

http://www.wsava.org/sites/default/files/Body condition score chart cats.pdf

This is a really clear feline body scoring chart which should help you decide. It's really hard to judge from photos, but I'd say Georgie is on the heavy side for his frame. The pics of Pepper aren't as clear for this purpose, but she's either right or just over. It's really hard to get cats to cooperate and stand right to get clear side shots (as seen in the link).

They're all beautiful, though

Thank you both. I will reduce how much I feed Georgie and hopefully he'll lose a little weight! Pepper kept moving all around so I gave up and just posted that pic, haha. Thank you for the body score chart.

You should be able to lightly feel their ribcages to see if they weigh normally.

I remember that tip from some article a long time ago, it stuck ever since.

Their slight weight gain may be due to that dry kibble too. I know dry/wet food is a

debate that may never end among cat owners but I fed my own buddy 12 (too long)

years on dry until I learned it's basically the worst thing to feed a domestic cat.

During that time, he gained 2 small pounds, being a slim classic Siamese.

I immediately threw all that dry kibble in the garbage and gave him cheapo canned Whiskas.

Luckily he wasn't that hard to please and gobbled it up. I even feared that urinary

infection and went as far as filling his canned food bowl with water up to the brim.

His huge litter urine clumps showed the extra excess water he was consuming. Just on

cans, a third to half a can twice a day, that excess weight went away.

Over the past three years, I experimented with cheap and expensive cans, premium

"patties" to raw meat like quails, chicken wings, hearts, necks, carcass/bones.

Quails had a nice meat/bones /water ratio but were expensive at 8-9$ for a 6-pack every

12 days. Chicken wings are now his favorite, cheap and tasty. Hearing him crunch on the

bones is a cute sound. Of course, he now weighs like a classic Siamese should at

10 pounds.

Yay for raw food! Hail! Hail! Hail!

That was my cool cat story.

They all look okay to me. Even George has a visible "waist" in the picture taken from above. A lot of cats have a belly pouch that hangs down, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are overweight.

If you look at the chart, you can see how the overweight cats sides curve outward and they have no noticeable waist.

The best way to tell is by how they feel - you should be able to feel their ribs if you apply slight pressure. If you can feel them too easily the cat may be underweight, if you can't feel them at all the cat is probably overweight.

I have a female main coon tabby mix. She is a lil over a year old and weighs in at 10 lbs. I have been told she is at perfect weight but to expect a her to gain a couple more lbs because of her mixbread