Vets assess weight in cats differently from how they assess weight in dogs. While cats will have some fat deposits over their ...

Why are so many of our cats now obese? The biggest change I have seen in the last 50 years of being around cats is in their lifestyle. The majority of cats are no longer farm animals that wander the ...

Just like us humans, cats love their food—sometimes too much. Combine that with the life of leisure that many of our beloved house cats live (like sunbathing in their favorite chair for hours), and ...

Many house cats do not get enough exercise and become overweight. This was also the case for Remo, the cat of PETBOOK editor Louisa Stoeffler. In the following, she reveals how she managed to help her ...

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A Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter representative answers readers' pet-related questions every week in "Ask the Shelter." A cat parent assumes her cat gets sick of eating the same food all the time, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Pet cats may be excellent animal models for the study of obesity origins and treatment in humans, a new study of feline gut microbes suggests – and both species would likely get ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- A fat cat from Washington has reached viral fame after video of her protesting her workout routine went viral. Exercise is rarely fun, as Cinderblock the Cat can attest. But no ...

Pudgy with a purpose: Fat cats could help humans better understand the way gut bacteria influences conditions like obesity and Type 2 diabetes, a new study claims. Food-related changes in obese cats' ...