this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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It's horrifying how animal abuse is seen as cute and funny by so many people, and considered an acceptable topic for a tumblr blog.
In an ideal world, the owner of that cat should be banned from owning animals and prosecuted.
You should read the FAQ on that page, they talk about the cat's chonkness
Yeah, about the FAQ.
How is this possible? That cat is way beyond the "healthy at any size" range.
Because they take one sentence from the vet's verbatim of the vestige of the information from the textbook/experience and only focus on that. Imagine the vet says about five paragraphs worth of information about the effects of obesity on cats, and has one line about "his blood panel doesn't show anything outside of the normal range right now." The owners focus on just what confirms their view.
"he's fine for now" truncated to "he's fine" and then HE DIES AT 7 YEARS OLD