• @ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I have never had an cat or dog that needed to have their food regulated. Which is weird to me because it seems like a normal issue to run across

    Edit: car to cat

    • @yenahmik@lemmy.world
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      107 months ago

      It is heavily dependent on the individual. My first dog we had growing up, we just had to keep her bowl full and she ate when she was hungry. After she died and we got our next dog, we started out doing the same thing, and he ballooned up into a total fatty.

    • @Duranie@midwest.social
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      67 months ago

      My boyfriend’s first dog was able to be free fed and never overate. When he got a puppy, it would eat whatever it could find and ballooned up. The vet said if he just kept refilling the bowl, the dog would adapt to the fact that it would get enough to eat and learn to pace herself. Nope! She would eat, go vomit, then come back to eat more. Her brain is just wired different, so she’s on a very strict diet.

    • @acockworkorange
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      47 months ago

      Cars don’t normally eat. Were your dogs normally sterilized or whole?

      • Aggy
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        27 months ago

        I don’t know what you mean, my car has always had the biggest appetite.

        • @acockworkorange
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          17 months ago

          Fixed is such a weird euphemism of the English language. Anyway, I’ve never had fixed dogs but a vet once told me whole dogs have on average higher metabolism so they’re unlikely to become obese if they’re just fed kibble.

    • @can@sh.itjust.works
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      47 months ago

      Depends on the cat. Some are grazers that will just eat a little here and there and others will eat everything in the bowl so fast the throw it up. So some of it is just luck.

    • aeternum
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      7 months ago

      When i adopted my cat, she was OBESE. BIG TIME. I put her on a diet, and now she’s normal sized, but she has a belly flap that won’t go away. So it can happen.