Posted on 06/04/2013 9:56:47 AM PDT by rickmichaels
OTTAWA - Ottawa Humane Society staff euthanized a 25-pound cat which was so overweight it couldn’t even stand up — and the owner has been charged.
Guylene Roy was investigated and charged with neglect after the 12-year-old feline, named Napoleon, was brought in to the shelter to be surrendered.
OHS executive director Bruce Roney calls it “an extreme case” and says the animal suffered from fur matted with fecal matter and severe skin irritation causing painful scalding of the anus and hind limbs.
He said investigation revealed Roy had taken the cat to a veterinarian several times but is alleged to have ignored the veterinarian’s instructions which led to the further deterioration of the cat’s health.
Roney said there is no singular rule for feeding cats — it depends on their age and how active they are.
“You need to take a vet’s advice,” he said. “And that’s what appears did not happen here.”
The OHS conducts 1,000 investigations each year but only lays 12 to 24 charges for neglect or abuse.
“We hold charges for only the most serious cases,” he said.
While Roney admits cases of overweight animals is becoming more common, he’s not seen one this extreme before.
This cat was in very bad condition, “ said OHS inspector Miriam Smith.
“Failure to follow a veterinarian’s advice and allowing a pet to deteriorate like this is appalling. And it’s against the law.”
Roy is scheduled to appear in court June 27.
My wife and I have a big gray tabby that weighs 29#. Loves people, loves kids, loves to jump up in your lap. Ugh!
But he hates dogs and if one gets too close he will go after them. He’s chased German Shephards, Rottweilers, and Great Danes.
And they all turn and run
Squeek, who is pictured on my home page, was obese at 15 lbs. (maybe more) when I adopted her from a rescue group. One evening she tried to jump on the bed (3 ft.) and she fell back and broke her hind leg in three pieces, I was devastated.....
The first vet I took her to really screwed her up by merely attempting to put her leg in a makeshift cast reinforced by a rod that went up the leg and over her back. That essentially immobilized her. Cost me $650.00......
Four days later after squeek not eating all week, I told my stepsister who called her vet who then called me late Thursday night and told me to bring her in the next morning. When he saw what the previous vet had done, he couldn't believe it, he had never seen anything like it.
Turns out the leg was broken in half with a third piece floating. He did surgery the following Friday morning, inserted a rod down the leg and wired the floating piece back to the broken bone and just wrapped it. I picked her up Saturday and Squeek was now mobile, considering what she had went thru, she almost died (and that cost me another $1,150.00 and I almost died) (
Six weeks later, I took her back to the vet, he removed rod the but left the wiring of the bone in place and she's been fine ever since. She now weighs a respectable 11 lbs..........
We use the el cheapo trimmer for our maine coon cat. He gets the ‘lion’ trim every spring. And the other cat picks on him.
We have a free, $500 cat with a pin in its leg. Dislocated/broken hip joint has a titanium rod now. He was only about 3m old. Someone threw him out of a moving car in front of our house for fun.
For a couple months he ran with a distinct gait but now you can’t tell anything’s wrong with him.
He’s the resident bug hunter. Any bug or lizard that gets in the house is dealt with in short order.
Our maine coon weighs 23or so lbs too. He’s exceedingly fluffy though. We called him ‘fat boy’ for the longest. Until I took the trimmer to him one summer. Turns out he wasn’t fat at all. Just fluffy.
Yes, we apologized.
Mine has such long hair and sometimes it gets matted so I have it shaved. Just like yours, then he doesn’t look so fat. He tells me it’s all muscle.
It's amazing how cats, dogs, animals in general adapt to their disabilities.
When I went in to the vet to pick up Squeek, there was a three legged cat walking around that its parents had brought in for its check up.........
I just downloaded a picture of Squeek when I brought her home from the vet of the house of horrors............
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