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[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

1 is actually mislabeled, that would be your cat from 8 to 20 points, depending on your cat, the smaller the cat the lower the healthy weight is obviously.

If your cat is a healthy weight you will see the silhouette of their ribs when they stand, if your cat is ovular when they stand they are a little overweight, if your cat is more round, your cat is obese, which is not healthy for your cat. Anything above that is incredibly unhealthy.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Not a cat owner, just curious passerby. Where would you mark the difference between healthy and underweight? Or is it more of a thing you notice if they start behaving differently? Or is it something that just never happens?

My sister's cat used to always go outside and eat a mouse or something if she wanted more food than what they gave her (and sometimes just instead of eating her food, lol), so I wondered if maybe most cats are like that and so you don't have to worry about underfeeding them.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Most experts recommend you don't let your cats outside unless it's in a closed off yard and you're supervising. It is super bad for your car to just eat random things outside, that's how they get diseases and die

On underweight cats the ribcage will be very visible, and the stomach will be too small