By Carol Christian | December 27, 2012
Despite some midnight raids on the food pantry, Tiny Tim has probably done better than most of us with his 2012 resolution to take off pounds.
A gray tabby with a personality as big as his back side, Tiny Tim has been working on his diet-and-exercise regimen since New Year's, when he topped 35 pounds.
Now, with loving care and veterinary expertise at Southside Place Animal Hospital, the still-fat cat has made it to 27.6 pounds on the long way down to his goal weight.
"I think in an ideal world, he'd be like a 12-to-14-pound cat," said Dr. Jessica Reyna, one of four veterinarians caring for the big guy who's now a permanent resident at the clinic, where staffers call him Tiny.
Because rapid weight loss can be fatal in cats, Tiny's diet is closely monitored by the dozen clinic staff members.
He's allotted 300 calories a day, divided into two portions.
For the first five or six months of the year, his weight loss was slow but steady until he hit a puzzling plateau.
"We just couldn't get him below the 30-pound mark," Reyna...
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