With some share of irony it is considered to be that the fat cat is an indicator that in the house everything is good. Owners of a cat only be touched if their favourite "grew up" a little. Unfortunately, the excess weight of an animal can lead to his various diseases and even premature death. How to define whether excessively your cat is well-fed?
A huge number of people holds cats and cats at home. Quite often owners of cats are only happy with the fact that the pet recovered. Actually excess weight is not less harmful to cats, than to people. Therefore after all it is necessary to watch the body weight of an animal, let not for esthetic reasons, but at least in order that the animal was great and happily.
How to define what weight normal for a cat?
The weight of a newborn kitten is about 100-200 grams. They gradually increases, and by a year the young cat already gains the weight inherent in an adult animal. Certainly, there is no uniform standard of body weight of cats which would be universal for all breeds of animals. It would be ridiculous even to compare the mass of a compact sphinx and the huge Maine Coon who grew with dense wool. By the way, because of wool even the most well-fed cats do not look fat, and does not come to their owners to mind to reduce an animal diet.The average weight of an adult cat can fluctuate from two and a half kg – tiny cats of the Singapore breed – and up to 8-9 kg as males of breed a ragdoll and a Maine Coon weigh so much.
Whether not too a fat cat at you? Define it independently
Quite often owners of cats boast before each other concerning that whose pet the heaviest. Actually the weight of a cat more than 10 kilograms can hardly be a subject of pride of its owner, excess weight provokes a set of diseases. The simplest test for objective assessment of whether not too your pet strongly recovered - it is to run hands over his sides from a muzzle of an animal towards his tail. If edges are probed, so everything is all right: most likely, your pet is only a little thickish and he does not need to lead more active lifestyle. If you do not manage to grope edges of an animal, it is an obvious signal that your cat obviously receives excessive amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. It is necessary to reduce its daily diet either quantitatively, or in general to replace a forage with such which is adapted for the cats suffering from excess weight. Perhaps, your pet moves too little. Track that the cat showed sufficient physical activity. Now in pet-shops the various toys suitable both for kittens, and for more adult animals are on sale. Perhaps, you will manage to interest a cat with their help, thereby having forced it to move more.