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Wednesday, October 20, 2004


How do you know when this Atkins obsession has gone to far? When you're supplicating your cat's diet because you can't lay off the freedom-fries, something's wrong.
The controversial Atkins diet, credited by a host of celebrities for helping them acquire a svelte figure, has a new figurehead -- a portly British cat which has shed half its body weight under the regime.

Using a version of the no-carbohydrate, high-protein diet, dubbed perhaps inevitably "Catkins", Fidget has slimmed down from a hefty 22 pounds to only 11 pounds, his owner said Wednesday.
Don't cats generally eat meat? And don't cat's generally eat whatever their owners give them? Reminds me of one of an old joke (thanks, C.A.!):
Two Doberman owners were complaining about how much it cost to feed their enormous dogs. One said "yeah, he was eating me out of house and home, 'till I started feeding him collard greens." The other owner replied, "really, my dog won't eat collard greens," to which he replied, "Yeah, neither would mine. . . the first week."

Although it's rare, sometimes when dealing with an animal with a brain the size of a pecan, the human has to intervene with better judgement.



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