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Meatball, a Phoenix feline, weighs 36 pounds (dropped off at animal shelter)
NY Daily News ^
| Jan 30, 2014
| Deborah Hastings
Posted on 01/30/2014 6:52:48 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative
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posted on
01/30/2014 7:12:18 PM PST
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: Fiji Hill
To: jiggyboy
“Poor fellow looks like he has a cataract or something wrong in one of his eyes as well.”
You are very observant.
He definitely needs a good home where they would take him for diagnosis and treatment of whatever things are wrong with him.
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posted on
01/30/2014 7:13:21 PM PST
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Nifster
You’re right. Abuse can come in all forms — starvation, AND over-feeding. He looks like a beauty and hopefully, with proper care, will have a healthy long life.
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posted on
01/30/2014 7:13:36 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
To: Innovative
Been on them for almost 2 years now. His dose has him in normal hormone range... gains weight.
To: ican'tbelieveit
“Been on them for almost 2 years now. His dose has him in normal hormone range... gains weight.”
Poor baby!
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posted on
01/30/2014 7:29:11 PM PST
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Kirkwood
Looks more like a meatloaf than a meatball.GOOD one!!
To: ican'tbelieveit
Has he been checked for Cushing’s Disease? Even Thyroxin has no effect if that’s what it is.
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posted on
01/30/2014 7:31:08 PM PST
by
KGeorge
(Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
To: Innovative; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; ..
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posted on
01/30/2014 7:55:03 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Innovative
I saw this on the news and thought the same thing. It's not hard to keep a kitteh at a normal weight. You leave out quality dry food but you put it on a counter so they have to jump for it and also to keep the dogs from eating it and you only give the big guy a little bit of wet food. The weight will come off. Either the previous owners were cruel or they didn't know better and just kept feeding him the whole can of wet twice a day and didn't notice his zeppelin physique. I think the second option is probably what happened.
As someone mentioned, he has what looks like a cataract in his eye. I had two kittehs that had eye problems but there's an awesome feline eye Doctor in town who helped both of our kittehs and one had had the problem for 6 months and the regular vet could do nothing and the eye actually looked abraded. A single drop of prednisolone twice daily cleared it up quickly and we just give him a drop a week to keep his eye healthy. I felt bad for the kitteh, I don't like when an eyelash is in my eye and he had to put up with a much worse problem for 6 months and it turned out to be an autoimmune problem.
I'd take this guy in a heartbeat.
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:08:16 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: Innovative
He is just a little bit overweight.
I hear he has a great personality though.
LOL!
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:08:59 PM PST
by
Sapwolf
(Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
To: Innovative
He needs a very carefully managed weight loss plan. If cats lose weight too quickly, they can develop fatty liver disease. Fatty liver disease can be rapidly fatal.
Also, I wonder what is with the little fellow’s eye? Is that repairable?
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:10:05 PM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Lx
He has quite a loud purr!
Did you notice how he was lying (rather possessively I might add) on his caretaker’s feet?
To: Innovative
Regarding the eye looking cloudy I’ve seen kitties like that in the shelter. I was told it resulted from an eye infection which was cured and the cat can see just fine with it.
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:19:20 PM PST
by
Williams
(No Obama)
To: Innovative
ALF likes them well-marbled.
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:21:53 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: thecodont
I didn’t notice his purr until you mentioned it and I went back to the video. I’ve got a kitteh with a loud purr and it’s awesome, it rocks me to sleep.
He’s definitely possessive. I’d take him in a heartbeat. The only problem is my dresser is next to my bed and my kitteh likes to jump from there to my chest when I’m sleeping. I can’t imagine a 36 pound kitteh plopping on my chest, I’d have a heart attack.
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:23:02 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: Kirkwood
**I can see paradise by the dashboard light**
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:24:30 PM PST
by
Daffynition
("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
To: Innovative
To: servo1969
What the h- have people been feeding him? Twinkies?
I think they were deep-fried Twinkies.
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posted on
01/30/2014 8:33:26 PM PST
by
Girlene
(Hey, NSA!)
To: Innovative
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