Cat not impressed with being on a diet... so, today he had mice for breakfast.

[SilverMau]

I just thought that you might like to laugh at our thwarted efforts to help the (much-loved) dreadful beast lose weight over the past month.

Positive: He is eating much less cat food.

Negative: So far, he has caught baby bunnies, squirrels, mice and voles and eaten the lot.

Haha! Bad boy.

My friends cat is a serial killer of baby bunnies (they live pretty rurally). What's worse is that he lines up the skulls behind the shed like Jeffrey Dahmer.

He's the brother of one of of mine whose biggest catch in 13 years has been a worm....

Yeah, the cat that inspired my user name is like that. He'd be thrilled to catch a worm!

The dreadful one did find today's mice in the house, so I probably should be grateful, really.

Well I suppose he is getting some exercise while hes hunting 🤣

Just feed him nothing and he'll get back to a trim weight, and be free to feed as well!

@SilverMau Cat tax please.

Here is the hunter himself.

How are you instigating the weight loss? Our boy has gone from 5.1 kg to 4.6 with the senior dcat food instead of the regular. Was some resistance at first. Vet is very pleased..

He's a fine figure of a boy

That's good to hear Sunnydaysarehereagain2026. We have had advice from the vet. The cats were always fed whenever they asked for it, and it always worked (never had an overweight cat before). However, the humans in the house are having to be retrained to be much stricter RE meals and to cut out treats.

Murasaki, that photo doesn't really show his belly (poor chap).

Here is my lovely mau (who is not on a diet and is a hopeless hunter). We also have a third cat who came here from a local farm and was very feral and frightened to begin with.

I'm amazed your beautiful Mau boy is not a hunter ! They are apparently terrifyingly efficient assassins. Although I'm not sure Marvin got through message about stealth as he launches himself shrieking at any bird in his eye line.

I once thought he had caught a rabbit, but it turned out that one of the other cats had given it to him.

One of my cats we refer to as "The Brick", and make jokes about earthquakes when she runs. She eats very little at home, but she brings lots of live and newly dead things home. She's timid so we doubt any neighbour could feed her. The local fields must be teeming with live edibles.

Maybe he’s sad you’re starving him almost to death and is eating his feelings?

He looks positively skeletal poor old thing.

He is very sad. He has a very hard time (wishes that he was an only cat) and definitely needs to comfort eat. I also think that the vet upset him greatly by saying that he was overweight. He was sobbing into his paws when he came home. I'm surprised that he hasn't packed his catnip toys into a spotted handkerchief* and left home TBH.

*It is probably only the lack of said handkerchief that has prevented this. He has clearly demonstrated that he can feed himself and has stuck two claws up at us meanies restricting his food.

Here is my rather generously proportioned Omani Mau. My brother calls her the 'sentient sandbag'.

Gorgeous!

mine is also on a diet and sympathises. He’s gone from 7.7kg to 6.8kg so far