Named Big Bertha by her rescuers, the two-year-old feline gotten here in RSPCA care back in October, after being disposed in Calthorpe Park, Birmingham.
“This is the biggest cat I have actually seen in my 22 years working for the RSPCA,” explained Birmingham Animal Centre cattery manager, Emma Finnimore. “When she arrived she was 11.8kg.
“A vet carefully clipped away her matting but she still weighed 11.5kg and was too large to live in a cat pod as she wouldn’t have been able to use the cat flap. We had to adapt a cat run for her until she went to a foster home.”
Bertha went through a stringent diet plan and workout program with weekly weigh-ins and routine veterinarian checks to guarantee her weight-loss was thoroughly kept an eye on.
“She was in such a sorry state when she arrived at the rescue centre with her matting pulling on her skin. We don’t know how she got so large as she is only a young cat. We think maybe someone had been constantly feeding her as she was so large she was left unable to groom herself.”
The RSPCA hopes Big Bertha’s story is a suggestion that being obese can result in severe health problems for family pets, consisting of joint issues, hypertension, diabetes and issues with the liver, skin and heat tolerance.
Sadly, the RSPCA has actually seen a stunning 25% increase in the variety of desertion events, with 13,159 taped in the year to October 2022, up from 10,519 in the previous year.
It has actually likewise introduced a Cost of Living Hub online with ideas and suggestions for anybody who may be discovering times hard.
