Starved cats don't always die (eating, weight, felines, food)

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Here is a heat warming story of two fat cats who survived without food for a month and will be fine and soon up for adoption.

Two Heavy Cats Survive a Month Without Food After Elderly Owner's Death | Life With Cats

[Lola4]

I find it VERY difficult to believe they had nothing to eat. After 72 hours... hepatic lipidosis is knocking at the door. More so for over weight felines.

[catsmom21]

Impossible.

[JanND]

Maybe there were mice.

[catsmom21]

Yes. Mice, bags of food to tear into......those cats were eating and drinking, or they would have died. If they were that fat, after a "month with no food", it's likely there was plenty of crappy dry food in that house. And the mice would have been fat too.

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Originally Posted by catsmom21

Yes. Mice, bags of food to tear into......those cats were eating and drinking, or they would have died.

I would like to know where their water was coming from. Possibly the toilet, but that would have run dry. A neighbor may have been quietly feeding them and giving them water unknown to anyone but themselves.

If they were that fat, after a "month with no food", it's likely there was plenty of crappy dry food in that house.

I wonder........... but what of those cats found in shipping crates from foreign nations? Cats that had no access to food or water for a week or more? There are never followups on those stories. When a cat doesn't eat for going on 48 hrs, I start to worry.

And the mice would have been fat too.

That line made me laugh!

[30to66at55]

Cats are very resilient animals. For all the pseudo-veternians on here, they will survive. As that article proves.

[Lola4]

How sad that misinformation, in such articles as above, have people believing a fat cat can live off of body fat.

Mannnny people believe everything they read. If something is in print, on the news, quoted on Facebook, passed along via email...must be factual. Sad how gullible society has become.

[no kudzu]

regardless they are beautiful cats and I hope they are adopted together.