This article is about the failure of trying to get an obese full-time indoor cat outside for exercise. It was probably the first attempt. Things will improve with patience if that is what the caregiver wants. This is an instructive video on a couple or more areas of domestic cat caregiving. The cat is Roxie. She is a tortoiseshell-and-white. She was a nice svelte charmer when she was adopted but ended up a tubalub in quite a short time.  She became addicted to 'therapy eating' to alleviate her boredom. She also enjoyed watching feline television aka looking out the window at the birds and the bees.  But that was the totality of her mental stimulation. Not enough. So, her loving caregiver throught that he'd take her out to his gorgeous back garden. So impressive. So big with a gardener on a motorised, sit-on lawnmower. The Shawshank Principle governing indoor cats It was all but impossible to get her into a harness for the lead. He managed with only one scratch. But she wou...

A cute looking, chonky cat to use modern parlance. In cat fancy language he is 'cobby' . He looks like an overweight, young, white British Shorthair. I am probably wrong. But he does look overweight though. Puppy fat?  I am minded to think of the large number of young boys in the UK who are overweight. If a boy or girl is overweight it is likely that they'll retain their excess weight into adulthood which will cost them ill-health. Type 2 diabetes is on the cards. Chonky cats are cute in one way and seriously wrong in another. Weight issues in cats is a serious matter.  Picture circulating on the internet in the public domain. Source: Pinterest. Perhaps the fad of publishing pictures of fat cats on the internet has promoted fatness in cats. There is certainly a bit of carelessness in sizeable percentage of cat caregivers in keeping their cat's weight stable at the correct level. This is important and not difficult to achieve. The problem is that some owners have lost...