Karen found this one for me. You remember Chubby Charlie, the 168-poound dog. This is Hercules, a 20-pound stray who got stuck in a pet door trying to rummage some dog food.
The tubby tabby was reunited with his owner, Geoff Ernest, in Portland, Ore. That's Tiffany Noreuil, an animal care technician at the Oregon Humane Society, with Hercules before the reunjon. Gresham, Ore., resident Jadwiga Drozdek found the feline stuck in the dog door of her home a few days ago, helped free him and gave him a plate of food on her patio. (Insert irony here.)
If your cat needs to drop a few lbs., here are some tips from the spring 2006 issue of Delaware Pets:
1. Monitor portion size and give your cat three to five tiny meals a day.
2. To balance cats' sedentary lifestyle, "find a toy they really like and spend time with them, even if it's just a few a minutes a day," says Renee Markowicz of Red Lion Veterinary Hospital.
3. Adding a playmate can help cats release some pent-up energy.
4. To force cats to exert energy, Markowicz recommends putting the litter pan upstairs and the food bowl downstairs.
5. Cats aren't exactly chomping at the bit to go on a walk around the block, but they can be trained to wear a leash. For indoor cats, taking a few laps around the house is enough to get their hearts pumping.
2 comments:
r u sure that cat only weighs 20 lbs. looks a loto bigger than that to me
I would have adopted him, poor baby!
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