Soutra yes, I know the one you mean! 
Although when Maurice had had to take tablets in the past he is no bother at all. I just buy some of that horrid flabby sliced cheese, wrap a bit around the pill and Maurice eats it!
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Evening all.
I am a tad worried about Digby. Now, he could never be (in the 2 years that we've had him) described as "svelte", but he is definitely getting larger 
In fact, if I'm honest he is obese.
He truly doesn't eat a lot, often doesn't even bother to come downstairs appear for breakfast, and if he does toddle in, he just has a few licks of the jelly then toddles off again. The feeding routine for both cats is tinned food around 7.30am and 5.30pm, with a bowl of cat biscuits available for ad hoc nibbling. I only put a very small amount of tinned food in his dish, as if Maurice didn't finish it off it would go to waste. Although he is very partial to his bikkies, the (not large) bowl is topped up only once a day.
Mr P and I have decided that it's not so much what he eats, although I suppose a diet that can be described as biscuits and jelly must sound like party food, but the fact that he is completely bone bloody idle.
Now with a dog you could take it for extra walks, throw a ball, stick or whatever, but how do you make a cat more active?
He did do a very small amount of leaping the other day when tackling some recalcitrant dandelion seed heads, but soon lost interest. (And that's another problem, his attention span makes Mr P's tropical fish seem positively intense) I'm hoping that with the butterfly season nearly upon us he might consider going into training, but no signs as yet.
He is becoming a laughing stock among the neighbours, I caught next door amusing her visiting GC by shaking a box of cat treats and saying "Look at Digby, see how he wobbles when he trots?!"
And he does. Not just the baggy belly swinging from side to side like a kilt wearers sporran when doing the Gay Gordons (The dear departed Clucky was a martyr to that, although a slender lady in all other areas, the tummy muscles had long since lost that "Playtex girdle" look 
) but his whole being wobbles quite alarmingly.
Any ideas?
It was a nightmare trying to get pills into our cat. We would try hiding it in food but he would eat around the pill, if we wrapped it in something he liked he would somehow manage to eat the food and spit out the pill!!
I did wonder whether Digby may be catching his own food (ours often brought home little "gifts" - half a mouse or rabbit!), but if he spends all day indoors then thats not likely - unless you have a cellar which is over-run with mice that you don't know about
Clearly the way to make a cat take exercise is to threaten him with a pill. He will then move faster than he ever imagined he could, and give you a good workout into the bargain.
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