That darn cat

Guess who this is about? The other day Fancy, Jeremy and Sally were due at the vets. Sally and Jeremy were due boosters, flea jabs a routine medical check and Fancy was going to have his weigh in plus his flea jab.

So the day of the vet visit came, and Fancy disappeared completely, its like he knew! We asked the vet if they'd see him later if he turned up and they said that would be fine.

He didn't come home until 10 that evening, with a massive gash to his leg and large hole in the back of his ear. I cleaned him up the best I could, will now have to try getting him in for his flea jab, wish me luck!!!

Fancys Diet

Lucky old Fancy has managed to escape the vets for over a month now. He was meant to have a visit this morning but the nurse is ill. He missed out on his last appointment 'cos i got the day wrong. He isn't going to be seen now till the 23rd of Jan, lets hope he loses some weight in that time!!!

Fancy's Diet

Oooops, forgot to write up last week about Fancy's weigh in visit. Sadly he gained weight again last week :(, even if it is ever so slightly. So, we have decided to carry on with the diet until Christmas and if there's no improvement have a rethink of the situation.

Fancy's Diet (part 2)

This week Fancy's weigh in did not go according to plan.

For a start he ran away and hid around the time of his appointment, causing me to ring the vet at T minus 10 minutes to report him missing in action, so unable to attend his meeting with the nurse.

Explaining to the surgery was no biggie though, they just laughed and said to ring them when said cat made an appearance to see if they could squeeze him in later in the day.

So, our visit was rescheduled to 5pm, and we got there this time with no further hiccups. Sadly, Fancy did not lose any weight this fortnight, opting to gain slightly. We put this down to the time of day (he usually gets weighed in the morning), but this does mean that the fortnightly visits will continue instead of becoming monthly visits as I'd hoped for. Ho hum :( Here's to the next 2 weeks!

Fancy Fights The Fat

Hi there.

For my first ever blog i thought i'd talk about my cats battle with obesity. Fancy is my youngest cat, he turned up on the doorstep about 8 years ago and decided he'd like to be part of our cat family, which at the moment consists of 3 cats.

He has always been big!! But until recently I have always argued with the vet that his bulk is just big bones, however, about 8 weeks ago i was told he really should go on a diet, since he weighed 6.13kg, (most cats are considered large when they weigh over 5kg). So, he's now on diet food from Royal Canin, and making fortnightly visits to the 'Fat Cat Club' at the vets'.

It has not been an easy few weeks. Anyone with a cat will tell you that they eat what they want to eat, and this diet food must have seemed like a poor substitute for the stuff he's used to eating. The first month was bad, although he lost a bit of weight the first visit, going down to 6kg, he then decided he didn't like the diet food on its own and started eating elsewhere. This meant that by the second visit he had gone up to 6.2kg and the third visit he was a massive 6.4kg. I decided that it's better to not follow the diet to the letter and have him eat at home than have him go elsewhere so we came to a compromise, half diet food and half normal food mixed together.

When the next visit came around the news was good he'd lost a bit of weight and had gone down to 6.29kg, and the visit after that he was 6.19kg, its coming off slowly! His next visit is on Monday, i'll post how he's done this past 2 weeks then >^..^<