Fat cat wants to be slimline sex kitten

Always on a diet, prone to catfights and with a name like Fifi Bottomley, you would be forgiven for thinking that this high-profile dieter made her name on The Only Way Is Essex.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Mar 2012, 07:00 BST

In fact, Fifi, eight, is a morbidly obese moggy battling to lose the pounds in a competition run by an animal charity.

The Bradford-based cat weighs 9.3 kilogrammes – more than twice her ideal body weight – but has managed to cheat diet plans for years by stealing food from other cats and charming neighbours into feeding her.

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She faces heavy competition from a roast dinner-loving Labrador from Tamworth, Staffordshire, who was too heavy to have an X-ray, a border collie from the Wirral whose excess pounds exacerbate his arthritis and a Wakefield rabbit named Samantha who weighs more than an average cat.

The flabby felines and portly puppies are among the finalists in this year’s Pet Fit Club, a competition run by animal charity PDSA.

Specialist vets will help these supersized pets by providing a balanced diet and tailored exercise plan.

The competition will run for six months with the winner announced in September. The winning owner will receive a year’s worth of free pet food for their animal and a pet-friendly holiday worth £500 with the Four Seasons hotel in Perthshire.

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