A ten page report released by the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery analysed 14,000 United Kingdom cats  to discover the following: If your cat looks like Andrew Gaze's practice basketball then it's three times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than your skinny cat.

And if you own a Burmese fatty, then the bad news is it is almost four times more likely to get diabetes than plain old cats. Just to balance the books it is also noted that neutered cats, male cats, and particularly lazy female cats are also at higher risk (how does one tell a female cat that her butt looks big in that?).

On the very serious side, just like human diabetes, the incidence of cat diabetes epidemic is growing: The study found that the number of diabetic cats is almost five times that found in an American study in the 1970s.

Want to save your fat cat from diabetes?

Put it on a veterinarian-recommended diet and give it a daily workout.

Exactly how one gets the feline owner of the house to work out is perhaps the subject of another study, then again, if you don't do something sooner than later maybe Gazey will be looking to make a comeback...

Source: Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgey