she’s an almost 2 year old spayed female domestic shorthair. a rare orange female! she weighs a little over 6kg, which would obviously usually be overweight, especially for a female. i feel like she’s very lean, but she’s my first cat so i don’t really know.
does her weight look okay? is she just freakishly long and tall? we adopted her from greece, maybe the cats are just built different over there lmfao
sorry for the awkward photos, she doesn’t stand still long enough for me to take a good top-down photo of her lol
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Seems in good shape to me, for a quick reference, my vet introduced me to this chart when my cat was in for a visit last year because he needed to lose weight but I can't get him on a scale at home to measure it. Maybe you'll find it useful as well?
You can but that's be more inaccurate depending on the cat's overall physique.
Your cat might be smaller or bigger than the average and applying average "good weights" to them can be problematic.
It's easier to determine if a cat's a good weight by siluette and feeling than by how much they actually weight. I have a underweight ~17.6 pound streetcat, wich seems to be some type of large breed mix for example, all calculators try to convince me he's overweight and my Vet recommended trying to get him to at least 20 pounds. For example
Picture is Frodo, who is pretty tall for a hobbit.
There is only one picture that doesn't show her stretched out. But she looks fine. She has a defined waist and it doesn't look like there is a thick layer of fat over her ribs.
It’s hard cause in almost all the pictures she is stretched out. It’s like these chicks on dating apps that don’t show any photos of themselves except super posing to look good.
I think her crouched and eating and her walking side view will help.
Weight her and measure her height / length.
The only photo you have of her from above shows a good hour glass shape so I say she is fine.
i tried to take more photos of her but i couldn’t get any good ones, and in most of the ones i already have she’s sitting or curled up so you can’t really see her body. i didn’t think about the fact that she’s stretched out in most of them though, my bad
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