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| Charlie at his new door. |
Several weeks passed with Charlie wearing his
wrist watch around his neck and little or no fits occurred. His lower back was
still very sore and dry, impossible to touch as it would send him on a fit
again. His chicken diet was rather costly but we think he is worth it. His
weight however seemed to be gaining rather than dwindling, if only we could
place a small camera around his neck to see how many houses he was taking food
from.
I spoke to a few of our neighbours to ask if they would not leave food
out for him and I even placed a big note on his collar stating: ‘NO FOOD
PLEASE, I’M ILL!’ which he managed to remove regularly. All this seemed to have
no effect at all: his chicken portions were getting smaller yet his waist was
getting bigger! There were times Charlie would have an episode that was hard to
contain soon after returning home. He had probably eaten something outside that
upset him. I tried giving him more chicken, hoping he would have his fill and
not go scrounging….. alas, I found him struggling to waddle home full to
bursting, he even stopped jumping over the fence; too much effort for the fat
boy. Toffee cat next door stopped running away from him, he just meandered as
Charlie was soooo slow at chasing him.
He had taken to sitting outside the cat flap
waiting for us to open the door for him; surely he was not so fat he struggled
to fit through? I felt mean reducing Charlie’s chicken portions to barley
nothing but each time I consoled myself by saying, ‘it was only a prelude to
his other meals outside.’
The final straw came when I observed Charlie
push his head through the cat flap to come in then watched in horror and
amusement as his front legs then turned backwards to push against the sides of
the flap in order to force his bulging stomach to follow with a thud: Our cat
was so obese he no longer fitted through the cat flap!
There was nothing else for it………… A gastric
band was a bit drastic so Charlie cat would have to have a small DOG flap
fitted if he was to come and go freely!
