{"id":398,"date":"2003-10-03T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2003-10-03T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T19:11:17","slug":"fat-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/10\/fat-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my cat had a little disorder last weekend. I made an appointment for him at the vet, and even though he seemed better by the time the appointment arrived, I thought I&#8217;d better keep it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been meaning to talk with the vet about my cat anyway. He&#8217;s fat. About 18 pounds of cat.<\/p>\n<p>YES, he&#8217;s big boned, YES, he a very muscular, and YES he&#8217;s a little fluffy.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s FAT. I&#8217;ve been buying him this high-fiber diet cat food for forever, and it seems to do no good. Therefore, I wanted to discuss the situation with a vet.<\/p>\n<p>The vet looked him over, agreed with me that he&#8217;s fat and told me to put him on the ATKIN&#8217;s diet. Well, to use the ATKIN&#8217;s principles anyway. All meat for the cat.<\/p>\n<p>Cats are carnivores, supposedly. My previous diet cat food choice was high in fiber &#8216;n&#8217; stuff, and may well have been working against him in his need to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>He seems to like his all-meat diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my cat had a little disorder last weekend. I made an appointment for him at the vet, and even though he seemed better by the time the appointment arrived, I thought I&#8217;d better keep it. I&#8217;d been meaning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/10\/fat-cat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/10\/fat-cat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}