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[DianaCox]

Newp, never left the house - I was buying food they won't need for a week or so, but the MAIN purpose of the trip was to buy harnesses for the cats, so they can get used to them before we introduce them to the pet playpen we just bought - that will be our way of "letting them out" when we take them RVing. It can wait until tomorrow.

 

[southernlady]

They are all long-haired Maine Coon mixes, and they all groom each other - it is Cat-Stock over here - free love and all. In order to "minimize" the issues, I get their undercarriages (bottom of the chest to up the butt area) shaved every few months, and Onyx gets a bath (he's got itchy skin), plus I have them furminated, and I curry-comb them once or twice a week. AND they get hairball treats once a week. So I think it's just that Loki binge-eats and then pukes. And then goes back for more. I have NO idea how the other two stay fat - they both appear to be nibblers who are not seen eating that often, nor for very long when they do eat. Though I probably give them too many treats when we have "treatie time" twice a day.

Once this Giants-Nats game is over I'm going to PetSmart to buy harnesses and leashes for them, to get them used to wearing them before their playpen arrives; we will let them get used to the playpen INSIDE, and then we will start getting them used to going OUTSIDE in the playpen. I want to take them with us in the RV.

Recently (as in last week), my vet saw four of ours...two are borderline obese as in TOP of what they should weigh for their breed (they are both Manx altho one has a tail). He mentioned that vets are reconsidering the free, dry food feed most are doing. That actually defined times of wet food is better. So we are trying to transition away from wet food so ours do not gain more weight...and I hardly ever see the two that are Manx eating...but obviously they are.