Is this cat fat?

[builder]

I know she’s not pregnant, because she has been spayed. I really don’t think she eats that much and she doesn’t like snacks.

[Zilla]

She maybe looks like she could lose a few pounds but she's defiantly not the worst I've seen.....


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[builder]

I just don’t understand it. She eats a ¼ cup of dry food twice a day and a tablespoon of wet once a day. I'm starting to think she eating something else that i don't know about.

[3furbabies]

Definitely not fat. Looks like she has one of those stomach pouches, all three of my female cats have this and look fat at certain angles but are not.

[aniela]

Kind of a bad angle to tell to be honest.

[catloverami]

Hard to tell from that lying down position, but she does have a belly pouch. Some cats are more prone to this than others, but it isn't necessarily fat, but loose skin. She's fat if you can't feel her ribs under a light layer of fat, and when she's standing if she doesn't have a waist indentation. It's better for the cat if she's slightly underweight than overweight. Cats can develop diabetes and join problems if too much overweight.

How Do I Determine if My Cat is Overweight?

[builder]

Originally Posted by catloverami

Hard to tell from that lying down position, but she does have a belly pouch. Some cats are more prone to this than others, but it isn't necessarily fat, but loose skin. She's fat if you can't feel her ribs under a light layer of fat, and when she's standing if she doesn't have a waist indentation. It's better for the cat if she's slightly underweight than overweight. Cats can develop diabetes and join problems if too much overweight.

How Do I Determine if My Cat is Overweight?

Thanks, I checked out the charts and she looks like a 5, but I don’t understand the stomach pouch. It that something as a result of the spay surgery? I had her spayed as a kitten

[builder]

She looks like a kangaroo

[snowy]

Actually ET have that huge stomach pouch too, only now I know that is called stomach pouch. From the same angle as your picture, ET certainly look fat too.

[spirite]

Yes, my vet told me that some cats develop that sort of flabby pouch after being spayed. Both of my girls have it. Margaux's on the - uh, healthy - side, but her pouch makes her look seriously overweight.