• kase@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not a cat owner, just curious passerby. Where would you mark the difference between healthy and underweight? Or is it more of a thing you notice if they start behaving differently? Or is it something that just never happens?

    My sister’s cat used to always go outside and eat a mouse or something if she wanted more food than what they gave her (and sometimes just instead of eating her food, lol), so I wondered if maybe most cats are like that and so you don’t have to worry about underfeeding them.

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Most experts recommend you don’t let your cats outside unless it’s in a closed off yard and you’re supervising. It is super bad for your car to just eat random things outside, that’s how they get diseases and die

      On underweight cats the ribcage will be very visible, and the stomach will be too small