What if the cat is fat?

1, leading to exercise intolerance and heart and lung diseases in cats.

Cat obesity will directly reduce the cat's exercise endurance, which is likely to induce cat heart and lung diseases. Because with the increase of cats' weight, their heart rate, ventricular volume, blood pressure and blood volume will also increase. In this way, the load on the cat's heart will also increase, and the long-term overload of the heart will easily lead to heart disease. At the same time, due to excessive fat, a large amount of fat accumulates in the chest wall and abdominal wall, which will lead to the deterioration of the activities of the chest and abdominal cavity, and then the breathing will be compressed to a certain extent. Due to the lack of cardiopulmonary function and the increase of strength to overcome gravity during exercise, cats are finally intolerant of exercise. Not only cats will get fat, but other animals will also get fat.

2. The risk of anesthesia is rising.

Because many anesthetics are fat-soluble, when obese cats need anesthesia because of special circumstances, a large number of anesthetics will accumulate in fat and release slowly, prolonging their anesthesia recovery time and increasing anesthesia risk. In addition, obese cats generally have cardiac insufficiency, which leads to respiratory and circulatory dysfunction and increases the risk and harm of anesthesia.

3. Bone and joint diseases

Obesity of cats makes them gain weight, and the stress on bones and joints also increases, which further leads to an increase in the incidence of some osteoarthritis patients. This situation is mainly manifested in big cats. If big cats are obese because of excessive energy intake in childhood, it is easy to cause various orthopedic diseases or aggravate hip dysplasia. However, the problems of bones and joints will lead to the reduction of exercise and energy consumption, and the continuous intake of energy will further aggravate obesity, thus forming a vicious circle.

5. Other factors

Obesity will shorten the life span of cats. According to research, the life span of obese cats is shorter than that of normal cats, and obesity will increase the chances of cats suffering from hyperlipidemia, diabetes, urinary calculi and tumors.

Second, how to judge the obesity of cats?

Usually, we define cat obesity as 15% of the cat's ideal weight.

There are many ways to judge whether a cat is obese, including weight measurement, shape measurement, posture measurement and so on. Usually, the commonly used methods to judge pet owners are weight measurement and morphological measurement. Clinically, it is more commonly used to measure the body.

Posture measurement methods can be divided into three types: three-level scoring method, five-level scoring method and nine-level scoring method.

Three-level scoring method: the first level represents thinness, the second level represents ideals, and the third level represents obesity.

The five-level scoring system is divided into five levels, the first level is extremely thin, the second level is thin, the third level is ideal, the fourth level is overweight and the fifth level is obese.

Third, treat cat obesity.

Too much energy intake and too little energy consumption are the direct causes of cat obesity, so if you want to treat cat obesity, you need to limit the intake of cats and enhance their sports ability. However, while adjusting the film and television dramas of cats, we must also ensure that their nutritional supplements are balanced. The owner can also feed some active probiotics to the cat at ordinary times to help the cat regulate its stomach and improve its stomach function, so as to prevent the cat from accumulating food and causing obesity.

Dr. Paw Paw Tips: If you want to help cats lose weight successfully, you can't do without the cooperation of the owner Qi Xin. Family members must agree and actively cooperate with the doctor's plan. It is best not to think that cats lose weight too hard, so it is difficult for cats to lose weight successfully. For the sake of the cat's health, the cat owner hopes that Qi Xin will work together ~