please stop feeding Levi!!

[charlie23]

Hello,

We have a Grey tabby cat called Levi. Since we moved here she has become severely obese. She is now so over weight it is causing her health problems. The vet has prescribed her a special diet that she has been on for a long time but she is still gaining weight rapidly!! The vet is very concerned that her weight can not be controlled and the effects it is having on her health. We love Levi, she is well looked after and FED!! Please if she is approaching or approaches you for food don't give in to her charming ways, it isn't doing her any good. If anyone knows who is feeding Levi please contact us, we are really worried and have to get her back to her previous svelte, normal and healthy cat size.

I have attached a picture of her!!

Thank you for your help

Charlie

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[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Good luck charlie. Unfortunately you have named him for the tribe that must receive tithes from all the other tribes!

[charlie23]

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[Monkey]

She's a lovely cat. I sympathise. You could get a tag made with your own special message sth like: "Don't feed me it might kill me". I get mines from the web and they usually come within a couple of days.

Good luck.

[woodie]

great pic!

[intexasatthe moment]

Sympathies . Whereabouts in East Dulwich is she ? My son was reporting signs of a giant cat in Silvester Rd .

[Jimbob]

i blame the takeaways personally, birds and mice can be quite fattening you know.

[jumpinjackflash]

have you seen the amount of calories in a sparrow?! shocking

[charlie23]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Good luck charlie. Unfortunately you have named

> him for the tribe that must receive tithes from

> all the other tribes!

Ah the priesthood. She's actually named after the anthropologist L?vi-Strauss!!

[charlie23]

Thanks for the suggestion Monkey - she's been wearing one for months "please don't feed me, I'm on a special diet". Perhaps I should take the more direct approach "Don't feed me it might kill me" yes I think I will

[charlie23]

Thank you intexasatthe it wouldn't surprise me, by the size of Levi I think she is doing the rounds!

Yep Levi likes a takeaway now and again (you can see she likes her food) but when it comes to the live stuff she just seems to play, torment, get bored and leave them to die. She's wicked like that.

[MrBen]

That's one fat ass cat you got there man.

I saw a treadmill for dogs on Dragons Den. Perhaps they do one for cats.

[Annasfield]

You're all mean. Poor cat.

[pearl1]

Is that for you or the cat? I think I'm going to get one myself for the new year...

[charlie23]

see and say MrBen! - It's not a treadmill she needs, just sad lonely people to stop feeding her for company and sending her to an early grave.

thanks Annasfield, the picture was there to identify levi not so MrBen could show his absolutely amazing skills in deduction. She obviously doesn't need feeding and I can't understand why someone would abuse an animal in this way she is beautiful with a brilliant character and i'd like her to be around for a few more years....

[Huguenot]

If she had character she'd stop eating. She's clearly a freak. Talk about rose-tinted spectacles.

I mean, how the f*ck does she get over fences? She must be driven by a paranormal compulsion. She's a bloody alien. Does she morph when she steps away from you, like Britney Spears?

Is this her when your back is turned....?

Who's pimping her out?

If your neighbours don't recognise that feeding this ravening maw is unreasonable from the outset, I doubt logic is going to persuade them. They must be mentally disturbed themselves. My advice is to follow her around with a pick-axe handle and swat anyone who so much as looks at her. If you can't bring yourself to kill her, starve the beast.

I blame the kerb crawlers. Can of Whiskas in hand, indulging their twisted pecadilloes blissfully unaware of the Frankenstein they're cultivating. All will be fine until the moment of climax, when she tears their throat out, tosses them lifeless to the pavement, and gorges on their corpse in an orgy of slashing jaws.

[charlie23]

Hi Nick,

Completely agree about the mentally disturbed comment...but looking at the way you while away the early hours of the morning they obviously aren't alone.

[Jeremy]

You should put some sort of muzzle on the cat. Fasten it with a padlock, and only take it off at feeding time.

[Huguenot]

;-)

I love cats. I share your anxieties, I'm just having a bit of fun.

BTW - I'm in Singapore - it's the middle of the working day and I'm working from home. Does strange things to a feller when he's isolated from the rest of humanity!

[charliecharlie]

wow he's WHOPPER!!! how about trying to keep him inside for a couple of weeks to see if that makes any difference?

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Get 'Da Bird! (got mine from Amazon USA)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/329580504_d5b88ab45d.jpg?v=0

for the fat bastardo, maybe lace it with catnip or maryjane, mouse blood or whatever, messing with the fatter one of our cats with it regularly resulted in her going back to a healthy weight.

Yours is probably the best cat picture of the year btw.

[PeckhamRose]

Did your cat get fat by drinking ALL that Pale Ale and Wheat Beer?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Are you sure its a cat?

Looks more like a bean-bag to me.

I could be wrong of course.

[bignumber5]

Cruel to be kind and all that but maybe keep the cat indoors until weight re-enters the healthy range? A cat that big won't be running around much so it's not like the exercise is vital to the weight loss programme, at least not as vital as nothing other than a measured bowl of IAMSlite to eat.

[Siduhe]

If you've attached a tag to Levi's collar and it's being ignored, then whoever is feeding her doesn't appear to understand the problem or respect your concerns. Agree with others that keeping her in for a month or so would be a good plan, though appreciate that she may not like that very much!

The other thing that helped our kitty (who is an indoor cat) when she needed to shift a bit of poundage, was setting aside 30 mins a day for some really active play - laser pointer tag in our case.