Archive for February, 2010

Fear not, I’m not making a bold philosphical claim in this post; I’m refering to the fat cat called Socrates, whose story we told you about all the way back in November!

You may remember Socrates was over twice his ideal body weight last year, weighing over 10.1kg! For this reason, he was chosen by PDSA (the vet charity) to take part in a 100-day diet and fitness prgramme to help him slim down and lose him dangerous levels of fat. Well, now his diet is over and he’s lost a huge 1.5kg – 15% of his body weight!

However, despite Socrates’ great achievement, Amber – a fat cat from Edinburgh – also took part in the challenge and managed to lose 17% of her body weight over the 100 days! This put Socrates in a still highly-respectable second place and has inspired his owner, Bill Duncan; “Before Pet Fit Club, Socs struggled just to groom himself properly, he had no interest in his toys or exercising and spent most of his time cat-napping. “Now, he’s like a different cat. He can groom himself and reach places he couldn’t before. “As a result his coat is in superb condition, he has loads of energy and loves playing with his cat-toys.”

Bill is determine to continue Socrate’ diet until he reaches his ‘ideal weight’ of 4.5kg. He hopes his cat will have achieved this by the summer of 2011. From everybody here at the Cat Health Blog – good luck Bill and Socrates! Keep up the good work!

Alright so, despite thinking we were onto a winner with the Cat Jump video, we’ve been sent this offering as an entry for Funniest Cat Video in our collection of Best Cat Videos.  It is somewhat unbelievable in its hilarity, but hilarious nonetheless!

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Of course, we are all cat lovers here at the Cat Health Blog, so we must point out that this is not good for your cat’s health at all.  Although it does remind everybody of the need for cat insurance, instances like this can also end very badly…  Luckily this moggy was just fine

So what do you think – funnier than the jumping video?  It’s a tough one…

Oh, by the way, we aren’t sponsored by Nokia – that’s just part of the video!