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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Cat Groomer : "Now Comments I know he is FAT...but it is not his fault he is FAT"
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Family friends had a cat that fat when I was very little. He was also an orange and white cat too, except even fatter then this one. No matter where the cat food bag was stashed Tom would find it, tear it open, lay with his head inside it and feed. The problem was when they put it up high, he'd still manage to get up there and tear into it and feast, but when he jumped back down he was so fat broke one of his front legs. So he got to lay around even more with his leg in a cast, and just got fatter. :lol:
 
The Un-Clit said:
Family friends had a cat that fat when I was very little. He was also an orange and white cat too, except even fatter then this one. No matter where the cat food bag was stashed Tom would find it, tear it open, lay with his head inside it and feed. The problem was when they put it up high, he'd still manage to get up there and tear into it and feast, but when he jumped back down he was so fat broke one of his front legs. So he got to lay around even more with his leg in a cast, and just got fatter. :lol:
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I think obese kitties like that are likely the result of genetic mutations. There are some well know genetic mutations in humans that are guaranteed to lead to obesity (interestingly, one of them is actually linked to the human ginger phenotype...) It just needs to happen in one of multiple pathways ("I don't need to eat" signaling is a rather complex system since its one of an animal's fundamental drives).

I've seen this in my family's cats over the years. My family was always a proponent of free feeding. With equal access to the same food, some cats were just an average body type. Some were incredibly thin, and despite extensive medical testing, which indicated there was absolutely nothing wrong with them, and subsequent long lives without issue, they were apparently just genetically wired to be stick figure cats. Further, some of the cats were fat, but it didn't limit their lifespan in the end or result in any overt pathology, so I have to wonder if they were just wired to be Rubenesque kitties. There is one cat that stood out among the rest when it came to size and weight. She was a jet black, shorthaired cat of indeterminate origin (she came from a local animal shelter as an 8 week old kitten), and she was absolutely enormous. Once she reached full maturity she maxed out at 26 lbs. What was interesting though is that she wasn't just a cylinder or sphere of a cat. She was overweight, but she was built more like a linebacker than an obese person. For her very large frame, she wasn't severely overweight. She was easily equal or larger in frame size to that of a bobcat. Even as a full grown adult taller than 6', she was larger than my lap by quite a bit, basically a lap and a half cat. The only way I can explain my anecdotal longitudinal study of the size and adiposity of domestic felids being fed the same thing, growing up in the same environment, is that for cats a majority of the outcome for their size and adiposity must be genetic.
 
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