Sassy cats – Diet edition, first chapter

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Gracie here with the latest news. When Gus was at the vet last week, they weighed him. (Not a good idea!) He gained another pound in the last six months topping out at 17 pounds. He has the body of a 12-pound cat so there is extra stuffed in there. The peep came home grumpy and read us all the riot act (about eating, oh yes and barfing our dinner). With two chonkers, we are all going on a diet.

This is stupid. Morgan and I (referred to as the grays) are at perfect weight so we rolled our eyes. Correction, we rolled our one eye! The peep is a pushover so this would be interesting.

A good shot of large cat butts!

We always have available kibble to nosh on. It’s like a 24/7 diner. That went away. Gus should not eat kibble at all and Sasha shouldn’t either. That means it’s not available to us adorable grays. As the peep would say, boogers!

For the first few days, aside from no kibble available, no one seemed to notice the diet. The peep was giving us all heftier portions of wet food. (The vet would prefer that Gus go on a urinary control food that costs millions of dollars, but the peep rolled her eyes. We don’t eat anything that’s good for us!)

Going into this week, Sasha and Gus started to clamor for food at odd hours. (Odd hours is a time that is not a breakfast or dinner feeding schedule.)

Morgan not understanding the concept of “diet.”

Personally, I like high tea at 3 (which isn’t a feeding time). I’m also not a morning cat. I don’t eat before 10 while the others eat at 7 a.m. That makes it complicated. The perfect schedule for me is breakfast at 10, high tea (without the tea) at 3 and dinner at 5. Maybe a kibble nosh right before my overnight sleep.

Morgan’s perfect schedule is a little snack midway through the day.

Sasha and Gus’s perfect schedule is food anytime, all the time.

Right now the peep guards our food during eating sessions to make sure Sasha or Gus don’t come around and push us grays away while we’re eating. She says it’s exhausting. I say go back to the old way.

She also tries to sneak Morgan and me kibble at some point during the day. It usually doesn’t go well because both Gus and Sasha have ears that can hear the drop of a single kibble from a mile away even if they are in a deep sleep on another floor.

We’re going to have a cat community weigh-in this weekend and see if any of this works. Personally, I think the only one who lost weight was the peep with all her extra activity.

Until next week, enjoy your weekend and send us kibble!

52 thoughts on “Sassy cats – Diet edition, first chapter”

  3. You know it’s kind of funny how different vets approach this. Charlie the second was a pretty big cat, approaching twenty pounds. I expected the vet to be upset and he shrugged and said some cats are just like that. Charlie never seemed to eat that much but I always had dry food available since Zoe was always hit and miss with eating. She preferred to have a few bites here and there, still does. She remains an absolute pest as far as getting her to eat, but somehow she has put on some pounds and that is my fault. I worry too much about making sure she’s eating something since she barfs when she won’t eat.

    Back when Charlie the first was around, I sat with him and Chester while they ate. Chester had high calorie food to encourage weight gain and Charlie had diet food which apparently didn’t taste as well as Chester’s. Charlie bulldozed his way through dinner and I had to heimlich him once. Chester was, for much of his life, more interested in our dog’s food. He would stick his head under Fred’s chin and steal food from his bowl. I had forgotten what a pain it was to try to feed them separately. Chester had his own views about food and the best stories about him are his efforts to get what he wanted – such as finding him sitting in the middle of a cooling cake eating what would have been cake for the office. He took a piece of chicken out of the pan once while it was cooking!

    I’ve wandered off and babbled long enough. I should just go write my own post but your trials with your different cats just made me remember cat antics in my life. Oh, and Zoe has changed her mind after eating Vital Essentials for several months. She now will eat the tidbits but not touch the easy to chew stuff. And beef. Beef is the food of the month. It won’t last.

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    • When I was a child we had a cat that was a counter surfer. Not that she walked by but she jumped up. Stole many a pork chop or drumstick that was cooling before being refrigerated as leftovers. Never told my mom if I saw it. None of mine except for Gracie and her rotisserie chicken and Morgan with her potato chips eat people food. I find cat stories interesting because they are far more individualist than people think.

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  5. I’m now here picturing Gus the size of Jackie Gleason. Poor kitty. Some of us are just a little hungrier. Not a good idea in parenthesis made me laugh, I’m sorry Gus. Gracie sure can write. 🙂

    Happy New Year to all at Chez Crimmins.

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  6. I understand completely Gus,even humans gain weight during holidays for there are to many snacks,even good snacks for us special cats it is going to be OK your Mom will take care of you,you maybe need to be a little dramatic at first,my mom says I’m a drama queen cat.
    Love you Gus.Mz.Dusty nanachessied cat.

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  8. Sorry you two beautiful gray kitties have to suffer. There are special feeders you program with your microchip # that will only open for you. Maybe she could get you one.

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  9. Wow, Gracie – I feel your pain. You and Morgan are nibblers and noshers and know when to quit eating, where Gus and Sasha are non-stop eaters. We had friends of the family – they were Hungarian and the woman was a wonderful cook. She and her husband loved to eat and their favorite expression was “some people eat to live – we live to eat!” I hope you don’t get done out Gracie and I’m glad the Peep is working to keep “the grays” from being denied. 🙂

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  15. Kate, if anyBODY can work this out it’s you! But I hate to think you have to be concerned over having to do it. I’m thinking it will all work out but not everybody is going to be happy. Just going to take some time. Put Gus on a treadmill!

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    • Everyone gets fed at a different spot. Occasionally Sasha and Gus eat side by side but that doesn’t end well. She just pushes him out of the way when she finishes her portion. I may have to isolate them in rooms while they eat. Right now Gracie wants a snack. Flipped open a can and Gus came running. Gracie looked at it and said, “I want rotisserie chicken” which is not gonna happen. I’m going out for pizza.

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  18. 17 lbs is a chunky cat. We have had the opposite problem trying to get one of our kittens to 2 kgs so she could be spayed. I remember the vet saying she needed to put on 200 grams. She then had to starve the night before and was still 50 grams under.
    Cats are all different I guess.

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    • The grays are the perfect weight for their build. Gracie weighs in at 7 pounds and Morgan at 11.5. Sasha has a small frame but weighs in at 15 pounds. She should be closer to 11 if not less. They are all different in their attitude towards food. Gus acts like he’s never been fed. Sasha is adapting to 2 meals a day ok. The grays are struggling a little bit because they are grazers.

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    • The last time I did this was with Hazel and she eventually lost 4 pounds. Jake, who was diabetic, wasn’t supposed to eat kibble so I could put that high enough that he couldn’t jump up (until he could). That sorta worked. I don’t know how I adopt normal cats and turn them into supersized. My vet says it’s because they are happy.

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