Fat Cat
I took the two kitties to the vet today.
I know that everybody hates a my-cat-are-the-cutest-in-the-world story. Especially if you have a cat. Especially if your cat is ugly. Anyway, this isn't one of those.
It turns out that Babs has gained 2.5 pounds in this last year with us. For a formally 11 pound gato that is mucho! Imagine, if you will, gaining 23% of your body weight in one year. If you were a meager 150 pounds you'd have gained 24.5 pounds! If you were a healthy 312 pounder than you would now be a whopping 384 pounds. Or perhaps if you were a shapely Lohan/Olsen 86 pounds, you now have ballooned up to 106 pounds. Way to go, fatty!
Here is what Babs looked like when we picked her up from the human society a little over a year ago. This what she looks like now. Marigold and I feel like bad people. How could we let our beloved baby kitty get so grandiose? The answer is that we are push-overs and she is whiney and completely without self-control. The vet said that Human Society or former strays are often times like that. They eat everything like it will be their last meal verses us genteel bluebloods who were hand fed from the time we were mere kittens.
It just makes me want to eat her.
I know that everybody hates a my-cat-are-the-cutest-in-the-world story. Especially if you have a cat. Especially if your cat is ugly. Anyway, this isn't one of those.
It turns out that Babs has gained 2.5 pounds in this last year with us. For a formally 11 pound gato that is mucho! Imagine, if you will, gaining 23% of your body weight in one year. If you were a meager 150 pounds you'd have gained 24.5 pounds! If you were a healthy 312 pounder than you would now be a whopping 384 pounds. Or perhaps if you were a shapely Lohan/Olsen 86 pounds, you now have ballooned up to 106 pounds. Way to go, fatty!
Here is what Babs looked like when we picked her up from the human society a little over a year ago. This what she looks like now. Marigold and I feel like bad people. How could we let our beloved baby kitty get so grandiose? The answer is that we are push-overs and she is whiney and completely without self-control. The vet said that Human Society or former strays are often times like that. They eat everything like it will be their last meal verses us genteel bluebloods who were hand fed from the time we were mere kittens.
It just makes me want to eat her.
posted by Stephen "Steve" at 7/01/2005 07:46:00 PM
1 Comments:
And she says "Mooooo-ow" now, doesn't she?
Posted by Jeanette