weight loss in cats

weight loss in cats

A cat’s body shape is set when it’s born. It’s not going to change. It needs to eat to survive. When it’s starved it loses weight.

How to make your cat lose weight. - Dr. Robert H. Berger, DVM - Dr. Berger's Animal Health Magazine, Feb 2012, p.3 - The most common causes of weight loss in cats are not associated with the obvious disease. The most common causes of weight loss in adult cats are metabolic. Metabolic disease (including diabetes, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, hepatic lipidosis, and pancreatitis) occurs in older cats and is not associated with the obvious disease.

To understand how much weight cats lose when they are put on a low-calorie diet, a group of cat nutritionists from the University of California Irvine studied a population of indoor cats over a period of time and tried to estimate by statistical modeling how much food each cat consumed. The researchers found that the weight each cat lost was related to the cat’s age and gender. '

One of my pet cats, Mandy, is overweight and I have researched feline obesity and tried to help Mandy lose weight. However, I have not yet been able to do so. I have also researched the diets and supplements that Mandy and I might try, and have tried them. The best I have been able to get from Mandy was a weight loss of about 50g. If I fed her a diet restricted in calories, this could not be sustained indefinitely.

Overweight cats can be a problem. It's estimated that 50 to 70% of cats in the U.S. are overweight. The good news is that weight loss is easy. First, we have to figure out what's going on.

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