My cat's fat. It just occurred to me... sesamin? Thoughts?

no.

I'm guessing by no, you mean no sesamin, as opposed to no thoughts... Do you say 'no' for health/safety or for efficacy reasons?

If your looking to get rid of your cat, drop her off by the falafel place at bathurst and bloor. She will be used for a good cause.

She has been developing asthma - that would be cheaper than the vet, for sure!

I laughed when I read this.

Heh. You can give her forskolin. Help the asthma and help her lose weight. KIDDING.

Seriously just feed her less (unless she has a show coming up and is in a hurry). Oh and EPA/DHA helps asthma so feed her sardines, or fish oil caps.

I just don't want to see people feeding their pets a bunch of whacky supplements.
*your cat does not need to sip on BCAAs throughout the morning
*your dog does not need a seving of syntheSIZE with his "carb meal"

My dog (may he rest in peace) was on glucosamine for several years. It depends on the supplement and the animal. Dogs are worth the it, cats arent - they are the prostitutes of the animal world. When they need something from you, they show love, when they dont, they bite you and spit out hairballs.

WELL I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ANYBODYS DOG "RECOMPING"

What's a good dose of letro for a dog that's in PCT?

Sesamin should be safe for dogs, I don't know about cats though.

this is the kind of shit I was worried about

Maybe I should have put a laughing smiley in that post...

Personally, I like a fat cat from time to time.

Chubby chaser

Now I'm not sure if it is a bad idea or not, sesamin seems like a fairly safe idea and in the grand schema of pet owner practises this rates far below most bad things.

People compete their dogs in competitions all the time. Pulling comps interests me, if I were going to have my dog compete it would train and eat similar to me.

With that in mind exercising your cat would be a difficult task, diet not so hard. Since many frown on the idea of supplement use on your pets due to ethical reasons I've come up with an exercise and diet regimen all in one. I've assumed your cat over eats, and is lazy.

Conditioned taste aversion will be used - simple add a small dose of a chemical that will make your cat temporarily ill and throw up to your cats food, it won't eat your food anymore. Don't worry it is safe, farmers use this all the time for coyote problems just adjust the dose.
Put cat outside - it now must hunt for its food, you may have to help it out a bit, go to pet store and buy some mice so it gets the taste for them
Leave plenty of water outside - remember neglect is even worst then supplementing your cat with Sesamin

Unfortunately, your cat is now a lean mean killing machine. Who said basic psychology wouldn't come in handy? (I'm kidding, but it would probably work)

This works for kids as well.

if the cat does, indeed have BAT fucoxanthin seems like the logical choice here...

In my experience, less food doesn't work particularly well with cat weight management. And I would strongly discourage the use of reduced calorie cat foods as well.

Why do I doubt it would have made a difference?

Get a second cat. Nothing like competition for food and attention to make animals lose the extra pounds while inducing a healthy amount of neurosis about hierarchy.

If you do this, you also have the added benefit of finding out if your cat is gay or straight...not that it matters.