Famed New Mexico fat cat 'Meow' dies

RIP, Meow. What a shame that his owner overfed him to such an extreme. Poor kitty was only 2 years old.

And got rewarded for it with 15 minutes of fame.

He should be fined or something for cruelty.

who gave him up to the animal shelter because of her own declining health; she couldn't take care of him any more. Although she obviously overfed him, I doubt it was out of malice or a desire for fame. In fact, she never got any fame at all, since her name was never disclosed.

Like she took care of him in the 1st place.

He was a bigger (much, much bigger) version of my cat, Tony.

Poor Meow!

Poor kitty, just when he had a chance at a healthier life.

And I relate to that because my 3rd cat, that I did not really want, but who decided VERY insistently that she wants me/us, an abandoned female that just started clawing at our door some 6 months ago or so, my third cat I was saying, whoc started by being a scrawny and pitiful looking little thing, is now at around 13 or 15 pounds! She is heavy, and I don'ty know what to do about it . Any suggestions? And please don't tell me to feed her less, because I do not feed her a lot, and I also have two otehr males, one rather scrawny (the one that the recently adopted female is probably stealing most food from) and another one with just the perfect amount of plumpness to make him irreseistibly cute. We are even trying to feed them kind of separately, but it's not easy...

I'd also suggest looking into a food that has a lower/reduced amount of grains in it. Grain is not supposed to be a regular part of a kitty diet--in fact if they are eating in a free state, grain consumption is pretty much limited to whatever is present in prey's digestive system when it gets eaten by the cat. Those little tummies, endocrine, and digestive systems are just not equipped for too many carbs on a regular basis. As always, talk to your vet before you do change anything--there may be something at work here that requires special diet for one of those cats. (MOST normal healthy cats should be good with it--but if they are older or have kidney issues a lower protein/higher grain content diet might be better for them in the long run...)

As my vet put it, carnivores were the first Atkins Dieters...





Laura

Feed them separately (which means no free feeding and training them all to understand that food only appears at certain points in the day,) plus putting the fat cat on a low or grain free diet, should help. Also try an all wet food diet for the overweight cat. It's much harder for them to eat too much when it's only wet food. Give the bruiser a dozen or so pieces of dry food as a treat.

And yes, talk to your vet first.

I'll look into it.

he was weighed at 32 lbs. after a bout of diarrhea!

And he wasn't really fat, just BIG. One day I was on the phone with his human and I heard this "Thump! Thump! Thump!" in the background. Turns out the summer heat had just broken, and Winston was cavorting in the bathtub!

Also, he had a serious jones for broccoli!

Boulder's famous 'falling bear' killed on U.S. 36


rocktivity

I saw him on Anderson Cooper and really felt for the poor guy-he couldn't even really walk! Anderson was smitten with and even couldn't resist giving him a kiss a couple times on the top of his head. Made me like AC even more!

All those changes in its life were too much.

He also must be feeling bad about this. I liked him more, as well, seeing that he was an animal lover.

RIP Meow...



TYY

Maybe he had some type of health issue that caused him to get this big? I know cats can get chubby if they eat all day (which is SO wrong for carnivores) but maybe he had a thyroid condition or something and couldn't metabolize the food?

NIce that they were trying to put him on a diet, maybe just to much for him.

He was really cute, too. So sad. RIP, Meow.

The owner obviously liked to make meow very happy...happy...happy, and one of the ways of doing that was by giving Meow the mostest and bestest tasting foods and treats ALL the time...Yum...Yum...Yum.

Death by spoiling......not that spoiling is a bad thing.

tour of talk shows sure didn't help his health. The SF shelter people milked him for donations.

This shelter is horrible. They didn't help me one iota when I captured 4 stray kittens. They said that they would immediately euthanize them if I surrendered them. Instead, I tried to find them homes. One had to be euthanized because of a stage 5 heart murmur; I couldn't find homes for the other 3 so I kept them although I already had 2 cats.