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31-pound cat dieting
for a new home

German kitty has trouble moving, cleaning himself Shown here is Mikesch, a 40-pound feline, who was adopted earlier this year from a Berlin animal shelter. Recently, a 31-pound cat was brought to the same shelter and is on a diet so he can find a new home.

BERLIN - A Berlin animal shelter is trying to wean a 31-pound cat off its daily diet of oily tuna fish, hoping the obese animal’s health will improve enough to find it a new home.

Peter, the second grossly overweight cat the shelter has received in recent months, has trouble moving and cleaning himself because of his swollen body, spokeswoman Claudia Pfister said.

“Peter doesn’t like the taste of the diet food and will only eat tuna fish,” she said, adding the cat was 22 pounds overweight.

She said his elderly owner, who died recently, spoiled him with large daily helpings of tuna. “We’re giving him his tuna fish now, but only diet-sized portions and without the oil.”

In April, another cat named Mikesch was brought to the shelter weighing 40 pounds. He went on a diet and shed 30 pounds before he was handed over to a new owner.

“For some strange reason people love fat cats,” Pfister said. “They think it’s cute and spoil their cats with the best food they can afford.”

Reuters
Updated: 12:35 p.m. ET July 02, 2004

[SeptemberMorn]

YIKES!! And I thought my cat was fat!! Mine would do anything for a can of tuna but I refuse to give it to him more often than once a month and then it's just the clingons in the can after I dump it in a bowl to make something for lunch for us humans! And then, it's water packed.

What makes people do that to their animals?? My friend feeds her remaining dog food right out of her plate. The dog waddles quite a bit and the vet has told her to feed the dog it's own food... like dry dog food, but no... (sigh!) The other dog she had died of heart failure because she was so fat! I don't know about some people!




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