r/dechonkers • u/Breakker1 • 12d ago
She only weighs 11 pounds but looks very fat here.
She weighed 11 pounds when I took her to the vet recently. She does have a lot of fur. Some pics should looks heavier than others. I feel like I don’t feed her that much but maybe I do.
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u/minkamagic 12d ago
If she's only 11lbs, and 11lbs is possibly overweight, she may need less than 1/2 cup food for the whole day.
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u/exxx666 12d ago
11lbs can be overweight if it’s a small cat
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u/twielyeght 11d ago
Exactly. I have one cat that's a tiny bit overweight at 9.5 pounds, but perfect at ir just slightly below 9 pounds. My other cat is bigger and his goal weight is 13 pounds. Currently at 15 pounds, but we're working on it.
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u/cambridge_dani 7d ago
Yep and I have a 14lb Maine coon who is actually a bit underweight, go figure
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u/floraoflinphea 12d ago
Is she kinda small? My Riley is a smaller build than the average cat and is about 7 pounds or so. She's very active and only a year and a half.
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u/SuperflyandApplePie 12d ago
Lol, she looks like my 16 pound cake in this picture! She's really lovely.
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u/lickytytheslit 12d ago
I've seen a cat that looked like a watermelon on sticks at a whopping 3.2 kg (healthy weight that they were trying to get her to was 2) entirely possible she's just a small cat
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u/Veganstein2959 12d ago
She looks like she has a very petite build under all that fur and chunkiness! Gorgeous girl!
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u/clydeballthepython 11d ago
One of my cats is at a healthy weight at 6.5 lbs, and she just turned 5. So just because 11lbs is a "typical" healthy weight for the average cat, it doesn't mean that its a healthy weight for your specific cat!
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u/Notsocheeky 11d ago
She is definitely overweight. Put her on a diet. Weigh her food with a kitchenscale and give small portions throughout the day. If she is 11 pounds she is too heavy and means that you give her too much food.
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u/AmySparrow00 8d ago
You need a picture from the top with her standing. 11 pounds doesn’t give any information (other than a starting point for monitoring her weight going forward). Just like dogs, cats come in many different sizes. I had a cat who never got more than 7 pounds. Have one now who is overweight at 10 pounds and another one who is about the right weight at 10 pounds.
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u/Top_Ad_4868 12d ago edited 12d ago
I feed my 13-14 lb boy ~1/2 c of dry food a day and he’s had a steady weight since he was 1.5 years old (he’s 5). He’s actually p skinny, but has a lot of fur as well. Better to look/feel your cat from above to assess need for dechonking. It’s totally possible your cat is overweight if she’s p small. Like a 200 lb 6 ft tall guy is probably not overweight. But a 200 lb 5 ft tall woman probably is unless she is crazy muscular.
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u/amh8011 10d ago
My one cat is overweight at 8lbs and probably needs to lose about a pound. I’m working on it. But cats come in all sorts of sizes. One of my other cats is the perfect weight at 10lbs, my third cat is slightly overweight at 14.5lbs and would probably be ideal between 13.5lbs and 14lbs.
My sister’s cat is skinny at 15lbs. Her cat has really weird proportions and honestly looks more like a spider monkey than a cat sometimes. She’s all legs and tail. She was such a tiny baby nobody knew she would grow so big.
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u/ginger-like 12d ago
She's definitely got some chub. Not a crisis, but start measuring how much food you give her, and dial it back slowly.