She screams while running on her new treadmill. This is mild, usually she's howling. If she doesn't like it, why does she keep getting on it?
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Ohhh I need to get this !! The vet told me that our cat is now categorized as Fat.
My cat has her annual vet exam tomorrow and I just know I'm gonna be put on notice for her being a bit too chonk. I so want to get her one of these wheels--she has the energy, I'm just afraid it'll freak her out and then I'll be stuck with this giant cat treadmill that never gets used.
ohhh shit I just checked, and I didn't realize how pricey they are !!
We've been trying to dechonkify our cat all week and she acts as if she's starving D:
it's really hard haha
We tried it with our cat who would get like super zoomies. He did ok but never really took to it. The amount of treats he needed to use it kind of negated the point. So we just reverted to daily "laps" which was basically just us throwing a toy or running a laser pointed up and down the hallway for 10 minutes or so every evening.
Though according to our vet, the biggest issue for most cats that are too chubbers is that we as people feed them too much. An average adult cat only needs around 180 calories, which in the case of the food we use is 1.6 tablespoons of dry and 1/4 can of wet morning and evening which seems like a stupidly small amount of food from the person view. But he has slimmed down and is holding steady right in the healthy weight range, even now that we have cut down on the daily laps. So the vet must have been right.