Concerned owner brings their tiny round kitten to the vet when he suddenly has trouble moving, only to find out that the kitten is... just fat: 'He's an only child so he doesn't have to share Momma's milkies'

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jun 26, 2026 1:30 PM EDT

Some cats are just… fat.

We fight it, of course. We understand that overly chonky cats are at risk for all kinds of things, and before anything else, we want our cats to be healthy. But some cats… some cats are just chonky.

We have one of those. Our cat is 11 years old, and she is one large chonk. Now, here we are, writing for ICHC, advocating for cat de-chonkification, and our cat, at home, is large. Hypocritical, right? Well, not exactly. She started turning chonky when she was less than 1 year old, right after she was spayed, and she has been in and out of the vet's about her weight for her whole life. Still on diet food right now, weighing out her food every day, and she is not losing weight, just maintaining it. We tried so hard to get her to lose weight that eventually, the vet just told us that any less food would be unnecessary suffering. "Some cats are just fat," the vet told us, "like people."

So yes, cats that are too chonky, to the point that it hurts their health - that's bad. But cats that are just chonky because they are chonky… hey, all it means is that you have more cat to love. More cat to hug, more cat to smooch, just- more cat, and we think that's pretty awesome.

OhMyGlobDramaBomb on r/IllegallySmolCats didn't think that their cat was simply chonky. Their kitten was chonky, yes, but that was no big deal. She's the only kitten, with no one to fight for momma's milk. It's the fact that she started walking badly that spooked her owner. So, the owner did the right thing and took her to the vet. And guess what? Mo (short for Mozilla Firefox) is just… fat.

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This has to be one of the cutest chonky kittens that we have ever seen. Look at that belly. Wow. So round, so full of milk. We don't know how you go through one moment without touching it.
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Sigh, already, he is growing out of his pouch. We knew it was a matter of time, but we didn't think it would happen so quickly. We're so happy we have the pictures though. The pics will live on furrever.
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