Which states have the fattest pets?

[yuiyoshida]

[Warpy]

1. My tough old Boston city kitty got a little portly here in NM

when I lived on the edge of town and the presence of predators turned her into an indoor cat.

I can report that there is no unhappier creature in the universe than a cat on a diet.

She wasn't hugely overweight, so a gentle diet got her back to normal within a year. To hear her tell it, it was far from gentle.

[DK504]

2. The shit that is in pet food is toxic.

Given little fido Doritos as a snack or a treat is insane. Seeing these animals in that state should be considered animal abuse.

[Warpy]

3. Oh, rubbish. They're balanced to provide adequate, balanced nutrition

to whichever species of furry friend you have. Unless a cat or dog demonstrates an allergy to something in it, they will do fine on most commercial pet foods.

Early canned cat foods weren't good for indoor cats who didn't hunt because they didn't understand that heat destroys taurine, an amino acid cats need a lot of. The research has been done and they've corrected the problem.

My own cats wanted nothing but kibble and rebelled when they were out of Purina and I had to get a more expensive brand. They've all lived into their teens and early 20s.

[Igel]

4. It's not overweight.

Think of it as short-term carbon sequestration method, the pets' contribution to preventing global warming.

Yeah.

[pansypoo53219]

5. kitten got my chubby girl looking 2 again. cyrrent girl is skinny, but need kittens.