Comments on: Laziness and Discipline (with some help from our animal friends) http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/ 2007-2010 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stefanie http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-14023 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:25:06 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-14023 Awww, the fluffy white kitty has the right idea! ; )

Great blog, BTW.

]]> By: sweetmachine http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13883 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:19:37 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13883 Kate: I’m glad to be SP’s supplier of kitten-related items. :-)

]]> By: None Given http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13841 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:34:59 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13841 I put my fat cat on a gluten free, low carb diet. I can’t tell if he’s lost any weight but he hasn’t thrown up in over a month, except that one time that he got into some kibble. He used to throw up every fucking day

]]> By: RoseCampion http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13813 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:21:53 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13813 My cat was once one of those fat kitties. She’d been on the street and when I first got her, she would eat so much at once that she’d yack it up right after. I got yelled at by my vet all the time about how she was going to get diabetes. Well, she never did get diabetes.

Now, fourteen years later, all that weight is gone. She was sixteen pounds. Now we struggle to keep her up to seven pounds. Between the hyperthyroid and the irritable bowel disease, she can’t put weight on. Honestly, I’m just glad she had the extra weight to spare before she got ill.

]]> By: kateharding http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13781 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:57:04 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13781 Hee, thanks for the links, Lynne. I just added one to the post. (Sorry, Sweet Machine. Couldn’t resist.)

]]> By: superblondgirl http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13779 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:48:08 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13779 Thank you for that quote from Mary Oliver. It sort of makes me step back and think “hey, I’m not so bad”.

]]> By: Lynne http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13774 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:41:33 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13774 Also, I guess some cats, like some people, enjoy the exercise!

]]> By: Lynne http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13761 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:22:09 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13761 Gotta disagree, Shinobi. The fancier, by-product-free foods are great, but the poop smells far worse! And I’m sure plenty of fat cats are perfectly fine and healthy, though I figure it doesn’t hurt them to actually be a little hungry by mealtime, either. I’m certainly not going to feed them grain-filled ‘diet’ cat foods, what bullshit. Also, when I saw that video on cute overload I almost snarfed my coffee the other day!

Addressing the actual subject at hand, most of my [fatter] friends exercise a lot, and I’m a lazy ass who has managed to bike to work a handful of times since the spring (and I’m “underweight”). I am sooo not in shape, and I feel very guilty about it, too!

]]> By: The Rotund http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13746 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:52:03 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13746 Oh, man, I HURT from watching that cat on the treadmill video. BWAHAHAAA!

Also, yes, Sweet Machine, yes to taking care of our soft animals.

]]> By: ShannonCC http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13727 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:16:01 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/02/laziness-and-discipline-with-some-help-from-our-animal-friends/#comment-13727 Yeah on the starvation thing with animals. We adopted our dog, full grown, from the pound. They found her on the street, scrawny but with a bloated belly, head down, tail between her legs. It’s pretty obvious that she was not taken care of and might not have ever lived in a house (she was also full grown and 100% NOT housebroken – oy). Even after being with us for 3 years (and completely perking up) she still wolfs down her food like she’s not ever getting any more. Anyway, once my daughter (6 at the time?) thought she was being nice and gave the dog a huge mountain of food. The dog just ate and ate and ate. By the time I found out, the dog’s stomach was huge and HARD because there was so much food in it. She just didn’t know to stop. There was food, she was gonna eat it. She ate so much she lay on her side on the floor all day, just farting and not moving except to go out and pee (the vet just said to wait it out).

Hmmm, wonder how that relates to when I was dieting and would finally end up eating so much that my stomach would hurt. Then back to dieting. Yeah, well, it seemed to make sense at the time (uh, no, it didn’t, LOL!)

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