Fat cat is "starving" Hello Comrades, Long time lurker, first time poster.  warning, rant alert So I have this cat, who we shall name pumpkin spice for ambiguity, and he is 20 pounds. 5 of which should not be there! My vet says due to his build , he shouldn't be more than 15 pounds. I also have a mother who constantly fights me over his diet. I won't go into crazy details , but I have gotten into screaming matches with her over his weight and have even gone so far as to get the vet to email her and shame her for her actions. I try to regulate his diet as best as I can, but I go to college and spend a lot of time cooped up studying. I can't exactly follow her around and make sure she doesn't feed him incorrectly. She even goes so far as to say I am starving him and this is abuse.  Ideally I leave the food bowl out for an hour 3x daily and remove it at night. We have other cats who thankfully are not meowbeasts that also need to eat. My last resort is to send him off to fat camp "aka dad's house over 100 miles away" and just hope the time away from my smallfat mom causes him to finally drop the LBs.    TLDR: once fur baby is now a fur muffin because he has no self control and enabler mom is acting like a child who thinks I am killing him from his diet.