Come and rejoice with me as FatCat is no more...

[SoupDragon]

Henceforth he shall be known as FatCatSlim* having reached his target weight of 6.4kg. In July he was about 7.3kg and it's been a hard slog with me being hardline about measuring his food and ignoring his piteous miaows.

He is celebrating with a small pile of Dreamies :)

• he can make music with SoupDoggyDogg

[SoupDragon]

I wish I'd got FatCatSlim to pose in trunks like the people advertising diets seem to do :) I'm not sure I would have escaped unscathed though.

[dun1urkin]

Black and white cats are unpopular in this house because no matter what colour clothes you're wearing you can always see the cats hairs

[Aphie]

Fatcatslim is the image of my massive man cat. He's also 6.3kg (goes to make sure he's still inside) Im not sure if I'm brave enough to keep my former stray inside to duet him though... He was only 4kg when he came to me in pretty sure he's being fed by others.

[BeaufortBelle]

Dun1Urkin mine and yours could be related. He's about 7k but he is tall and long too. The vet usually goes and looks at his overall size. Someone explain why black and white cats are supposed to be unpopular please.

[Pangurban1]

Oh retract. see where you said there were no before and after as he didn't look fat. He looks big though.

[Pangurban1]

For comparison, you need before and after photos. Just saying.

[BIWI]

at Pawcamp!

I often think that herding cats would be easier than managing people on Bootcamp

[SoupDragon]

Another lovely not so fat cat :) FatCatSlim has a slight hanging under belly now too!

Both FatCatSlim and the late SoupKitten are/were bog standard moggies and often curled up together like Yin and Yang.

[dun1urkin]

Soup that is an exceptionally cute picture. Our dearly departed other DCat and the ex-fattie basically ignored each other at all times.

[Wolfiefan]

OMG. Cutest cats ever.
Well done fatcatslim. A shadow of your former self!

[dun1urkin]

My much diminished cat

[dun1urkin]

Yep, the swinging flap. He's not remotely self concious of it. A real role model

[BoxofSnails]

What a gorgeous cat. What breed of cat is he? Am not that knowledgeable about these things sorry.
I slightly overfed crazycat when she came home from the RSPCA as a scrap of fur and bone. She's evened out now. Must have been so hard to ignore the I'm-so-deprived-I-need-feeding-NOW miaowing!

[BibiBlocksberg]

dunLurkin - does he have that 'swinging fold' thing going on when walking? I had one like that, no tummy tucks there either though :)

That pic is adorable OP, looks like they are plotting & the ginger one is whispering in the other cats ear.

I can feel a caption comp coming on? :)

[SoupDragon]

Now that is an impressive weight loss!

[dun1urkin]

I've come on to make a not-so-stealthy boast about my DCat who has lost 50% of his body weight (over years and years, maybe 10).
He was enormously overweight when we got him, over 10kg. He's now 5.4kg. Fortunately for us he's a scaredy cat and hasn't ever been begging round the neighbours.
He is a magnificent beast, who doesn't need a tummy tuck, no not at all

[hugoagogo]

Aww that is the cutest pic!

Hooray for fatcat's terrific weight loss

[SoupDragon]

Oh, and he's no longer cuddly - I can feel ribs! (Which is as it should be according to the vet)

I will be working hard to make sure I never have to restrict his food so much again.

[SoupDragon]

Narcycow he is a very big moggy! His (late) housemate was a teeny tiny ginger tabby weighing in at 3kg. I think this is where his problems started - he ate far more of the food than she did!

[AwkwardSquad]

Well done! We had to put our cat on a diet so I share your pain. FatAwkwardCat is now ReasonablySvelteAwkwardCat

[NarcyCow]

6.4kg is an okay weight for a cat?! Good grief, he must be huge (and gloriously cuddly )

Ours are 4kg and 3kg.

[BibiBlocksberg]

Thank gawd for that, i thought someone was actually crowing about the death of their cat then :)

Congratulations, world peace really will be small fry after this

My resting 'bitch face' always has the vet stuttering 'he's a big boy, but errrr he's ok, just doesn't want to get any bigger' when Jake comes off the scales so i've not had to face the nightmare that i imagine a dieting cat to be :)

[SoupDragon]

:)

[BeaufortBelle]

Like me then soupdragon. Bet you can teach that biwi a trick or two - she can move onto pawcamp from Boot camp.

[SoupDragon]

There are no before and after shots as he never really looked fat - it was all carried underneath so from above he looked slender. He is a long, tall cat so carried the weight well...