I also have a fat cat and she is pretty active and the vet said she was fine after she asked if she was pregnant…. but you can try giving him special food to help him lose weight but if your vet thinks hes ok then i would let him live his fat happy life.

The easiest and healthiest way to reduce your cats body fat is to switch to wet (canned) food or best of all a RAW diet.
Dry food is comprised of mostly grains and since cats are obligate carnivores their systems cannot digest the grains and instead convert the grains to sugars which are stored as fat.
Wet food contains more protein and so your cat will feel full faster and eat less. They also will gain more muscle mass as they lose fat.
If you choose to feed dry food try a grain free dry like Natures Variety raw instinct or Wellness Core.
Here’s a really good website to learn more about your cats health….

Good luck!!!

Science Diet has a prescription brand… you can purchase what they call R/D which is restricted calorie food in wet or dry and also come sin diffrent flavors.

Try putting him on some specially-formulated diet catfood. I’m not at my PC right now, otherwise I’d link you to some info about said diet food. Also, if you feed him anything else but catfood (treats, anything that could be construed as “people food,” etc.), stop. If you don’t have the money to do that (special food can be pretty pricey), I would just monitor how much you’re feeding him; it can be really easy to over-feed them.

Cats (house cats, especially) are naturally very “lax” and enjoy sleeping and lying around. So, if your cat isn’t the most energetic animal, it’s not really cause for alarm. That said, they DO need exercise. Try integrating toys into his daily routine (you’d be surprised at all the toys you can make from everyday items you find around the house – crumpled-up paper, a drinking straw, or just a piece of string can do wonders).

I have a fat cat of my own (18 lbs.) and I do notice that he is somewhat lazier than my other cats, but as I’ve implemented the aforementioned methods, he’s slowly losing a little bit of that extra weight.

Good luck!

try to exercise your cat..make it play much..and also the important thing diet food..

my cat is fat she was in the food all day even slept buy the food i had to hide it she mad but its helped

Diet food, more play, get toys he can chase.

If he has a strong treat drive, try teaching him tricks. I taught my cat to stand up and give me her paw, give eskimo kisses, and roll on her belly.

Let him outside, though that has risks, particularly if he has only been an indoor cat.

If you can get a harness around him, you might want to take him for walks.

You need to get some information on obesity in cats (and your cat is obese).

Go to: and read Dr. Jean Hovfe’s article titled “Feline Obesity” and then read “The Right Weight Loss Program for Cats”.

At. thepetcenter.com that is also an excellent article on feline obesity and proper nutrition for cats.

First, make sure you are feeding him the right amount of food for what his weight should be (not what it is now). Do a little research on your cat’s breed to determine what that weight is. My cat, for example, weighs 24 pounds but is a large male Maine Coon. He’s on a diet to lose about 2 pounds, but losing any more than that would make him underweight (my grandmother made my cat fat, not me).
Also, try giving your cat things to chase. Some catnip toys may interest him, though not all cats respond to catnip (mine will have nothing to do with it). Helping him lose weight may not make him more active. You may need to make a big effort to get him up and moving. Some people do walk their cats, but it’s probably not worth even trying.
If his food intake is proper but he is still overweight, talk to the vet about getting him on a diet food like Hill’s r/d. Some cats just have trouble with weight.

You are endangering him just by feeding dry food
Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard, dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. The problems with it are that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Most of the moisture a cat needs is gotten
out of the food and 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Also, most use horrible ingredients and don’t use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn’t have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Please read about cat nutrition.