Which Fitbit should I get for my cat?

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  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    A garmin for your dog - https://www.linkakc.com/
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    awww...
  • sllm1
    sllm1 Posts: 2,130 Member
    A GPS tracker for dogs!!!! <3
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    A garmin for your dog - https://www.linkakc.com/

    Garmin actually does make expensive GPS radio collars for dogs. For hunters, and especially spendy hikers. Our watches are compatible, they'll show where the dogs are on the "map" page as you make your way through the woods.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    edited November 2017
    I would suggest the Pea because you don't have to recharge it all the time.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    I'm posting these because they seen silly and good for a laugh. But I found them because my kitty is overweight and I need to help fix that. So I guess I'm of two minds. But I doubt these would be very helpful for a cat because cats don't understand any of this.

    I wish you luck. I had to put my cat on a diet this year and it was much worse than losing weight myself.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    I'm posting these because they seen silly and good for a laugh. But I found them because my kitty is overweight and I need to help fix that. So I guess I'm of two minds. But I doubt these would be very helpful for a cat because cats don't understand any of this.

    They say a fool and his money are soon parted. Can't believe people are actually buying these things. The cat's body functions just like a human's CICO lol. If the cat is fat, don't give it as much food. Will work unless the cat can open cabinets, boxes and cans. If it's an outdoor cat, it could get it's own food, but then again seldom see fat outdoor cats.
  • icemom011
    icemom011 Posts: 999 Member
    Packerjohn wrote: »
    I'm posting these because they seen silly and good for a laugh. But I found them because my kitty is overweight and I need to help fix that. So I guess I'm of two minds. But I doubt these would be very helpful for a cat because cats don't understand any of this.

    They say a fool and his money are soon parted. Can't believe people are actually buying these things. The cat's body functions just like a human's CICO lol. If the cat is fat, don't give it as much food. Will work unless the cat can open cabinets, boxes and cans. If it's an outdoor cat, it could get it's own food, but then again seldom see fat outdoor cats.

    Lol, my thoughts exactly! All you have to do is feed them less, and magic will happen, they will lose weight. My spouse had an severely overweight dog and a cat when we got together, and with limiting their intake a little, they lost all the extra fat. Humans control their diet, they can't serve themselves, so if you gradually reduce the amount you feed them to a normal serving size, they will lose weight. CICO hard at work there as well, and for God's sake, let the cat have his beauty sleep, how do you suppose they live to be 20 years old? Rest and no stress, that's how, hehe.

  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    I'm posting these because they seen silly and good for a laugh.

    that part worked for sure.
    My kitty is lazy. I'd get something like Kitty took 14 steps today (and that's only because the dog was chasing him) and slept for 23.5 hours.

    pretty hard to get a cat to move more when it doesn't want to. this is something i'm never sure dog people quite understand. it's way harder to fool motivate a cat.

  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Can't just feed the cat less because we also have a younger cat who is very active.
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    Can't just feed the cat less because we also have a younger cat who is very active.

    My friend has to feed her two cats different types and amounts of food. It is not easy and both she and the cats hate it, but it can be done. She separates them into two different rooms with their own food bowls when she feeds them. The cats don't like to be on a food "schedule", but they have learned to deal with it.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Just leaving this here. There are a couple on the clearance table at the local Staples.

    https://www.fitbark.com/
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Can't just feed the cat less because we also have a younger cat who is very active.

    My friend has to feed her two cats different types and amounts of food. It is not easy and both she and the cats hate it, but it can be done. She separates them into two different rooms with their own food bowls when she feeds them. The cats don't like to be on a food "schedule", but they have learned to deal with it.

    We've tried feeding them separately before and will probably go back to this. We have one if those cat tree things in front of a window and used to put the kitten's food at the top, where the older car isn't energetic enough to reach. Problem is Bear would knock half the food of his plate while he ate, and Parsley knew it was raining manna from heaven.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    What
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    *kitten*
  • amandaeve
    amandaeve Posts: 723 Member
    Hahaha! Best thread of the day.

    I'll add that my cat is 11 years old and a bit tubby, but she's asks like a crazed kitten most of the time. No foot or small object is ever safe in our home! She sprints and "surfs" on her scratching pad all the way down the hall and runs laps at bedtime. Don't let me start about her 3am "dig to china" hour. So, like people, activity doesn't necessarily help...
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Parsley has a "coin purse" belly. I didn't know it but apparently that makes her a "Swiffer cat."
  • icemom011
    icemom011 Posts: 999 Member
    We have four cats, different ages and temperaments. Two can self-regulate their food and don't overeat, two others can't. So those two have their own bowls, and they are being fed at same time, but different places. The ones that don't overeat have their bowl fiiled up in the morning, and they eat as they please all day and night, but it's out of reach for the others, and off limits too and they never touch that food. It wasn't too hard to train them, working really well. Good luck
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    Problem is Bear would knock half the food of his plate while he ate, and Parsley knew it was raining manna from heaven.

    try to estimate how much of parsley's calorie intake is from manna, and deduct that from what you put on the lower level?

    probably very unhelpful, i know.

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