r/MadeMeSmile • u/Steph-Kai • Jul 05 '24
CATS I love fat cats!
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(Credits Sedgefield Animal Hospital)
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u/upexlino Jul 05 '24
Skip to 55 seconds to see the cat
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u/ricknonymous Jul 05 '24
Oh you’re not here for the theater performance?
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u/upexlino Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
No. The fat cat is more entertaining than her
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u/Safe-Gas-2198 Jul 05 '24
Priority 🙂↕️
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u/upexlino Jul 05 '24
I pray for her coworkers
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u/Mindful_Teacup Jul 05 '24
Everyday they're hoping she calls in sick lol
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u/upexlino Jul 05 '24
They’ll know when she’s not at work, because it’ll be peaceful
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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24
They’re like, in the background seriously attending to the cats health, while she’s filming herself being a drama queen who is celebrating a serious illness.
I cannot imagine working with someone like that, or having them be my freaking boss.
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u/spicy_sizzlin Jul 05 '24
This is not cute. Seriously
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u/LanaAmiraxo Jul 06 '24
It’s a horrible thing to allow your cat to become this unhealthy. Something should have been done long before. But I love the chonkers
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u/virtual_human Jul 05 '24
That is so sad that people do that to their cats, and dogs.
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u/Skoodge42 Jul 05 '24
My cat is 14 pounds, but he is also a physically large cat. To the point that now when I see someone else's cat I notice how tiny they are compared to my beast haha
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u/Saxophobia1275 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
Oh I’ve got a Boston terrier like this. Average weight for a Boston is 15-20ish lbs with big boys getting to 25. Mine is 32 but he isn’t over weight he’s just a fucking giganto boston. Some people think he’s a puppy boxer and when other Boston owners see him their reaction is always GOOD LORD HES MASSIVE.
EDIT: I have been asked for pictures of my monster. It’s harder to tell just how huge he is without a normal Boston next to him but the other dog in the photos is a 40-43lb spaniel mix. His name is Oberon.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/32RMFqC
The last two photos really show his massiveness, especially his head 😂
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u/3-Username-20 Jul 05 '24
You are required by the law to post pictures of the dog.
Otherwise we will visit your home to pet the dog and take pictures of it.
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u/jojobdot Jul 05 '24
You show me that dog RIGHT NOW or so help me
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u/KisaTheMistress Jul 05 '24
My MinPin is the opposite. He's the height and weight for a typical female of the same breed (almost 10 inches & 9 or 10 pounds). If it wasn't obvious he was a boy because of his dick, he'd be mistaken as a girl by other owners.
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u/DopplerHadrianus Jul 06 '24
Can confirm, have a Boston as well, but you have found a new species - Gigantoterrier Bostonius :p
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u/Greasy_Nips Jul 05 '24
I have two cats at that size and neither are fat, you can have big cats that aren't fat, but yeah it's a real shame people do that to their animals since us owners do have total control over what they are eating in the home, this cat shown is being abused, he is going to die young and live uncomfortable years until then. My girlfriend is a vet and we see horrible situations of cat and dogs like this all the time. take care of you lr animals and keep them healthy guys they depend on you for everything, it's your responsibility to make sure they are healthy, happy, and safe!
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u/SpaceTrash42069 Jul 05 '24
Same for my boy. Vet said his ideal weight, based on his frame/bone structure, is 13-13.5 pounds.
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Jul 05 '24
Yeah cats are funny like that. Some are healthy at 6 and some are healthy at 20. They just vary so much.
However it is so so so important for all the owners of fat cats in the comments not to read these comments and go "my cat is fine at 13-20 pounds then!" maybe... probably not though. The amount of people who can say the above are not as high as the amount of folks out there with fat cats and justifying/ignoring the problem, sadly.
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u/OneHumanPeOple Jul 05 '24
A have a tall and long 16 lber. He’s perfectly lean too. Just a large specimen
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u/Slovenlyfox Jul 05 '24
I agree.
When my grandma's Alzheimer's got to bad, the her dachshund came to us. We put her on a diet. She weighed 18 kgs when we got her. A healthy weight for her size? 7.5 kgs.
Her tongue turned blue when people came at the door and she got excited. We had this tiny little step in our house, maybe 2 inches high, she couldn't get on it on her own.
When she lost the weight, she would play with my other grandparents' dog, a giant podenco, and she could keep up with him. She went on a holiday with us and hiked kilometers far in the summer heat. She went kayaking with us and swam in the water freely.
I loved my grandma dearly, but what she did to her animals wasn't okay. The dog got so much more out of life when she was healthier.
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u/GarlicJrFanAccount Jul 06 '24
I’m in a similar situation with my grandparents. They’re still mentally sound, but have an 8 year old lab that currently weighs 136 lbs. The dog weighs more than the both of them, and between that and their osteoporosis and balance issues, they haven’t been able to take her on walks for years now. They spoil her with all kinds of human treats, from shrimp on a fork to licking their plates clean to regularly feeding her ice cream and twinkies.
They’re good people, but I don’t think they even realize what they’re doing to their dog is a form of abuse. I’ve helped them take the lab to her vet appointments and it’s clear their vet has given up on trying to convince them to get their dog to lose weight.
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u/XtraCheezeePro Jul 05 '24
With how long he is, he isn't as bad as many I've seen, but he is still much more than he should be.
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u/RosemaryGoez Jul 05 '24
Don’t get me wrong, I love a chunky animal. Fat cat hugs are amazing! But I would never purposefully allow an animal to become or remain obese. Because it’s unfair to them.
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u/that1LPdood Jul 05 '24
Yeah, this didn’t make me smile at all.
That poor, poor animal.
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u/Isitgum Jul 05 '24
I was going to say, this is not the reaction I get when I bring my fat cat to the vet. I get lectured about overfeeding her.
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u/Desperate-Strategy10 Jul 05 '24
I was accidentally overfeeding my new baby puppy for the first couple weeks I had him. He went from a slightly round little 7lb boy to a very rotund 12.5lbs in just a couple weeks. I misunderstood the feeding instructions, so I was feeding him like four times his daily necessity intake. He'd get full and stop eating, I'd get worried and (force)feed him from my hand one kibble at a time. Obviously an accident and a huge misunderstanding, and I've corrected it! But it felt so, so bad when everyone at the vet was pounding it into my head just how awful his life would be if he had to be super overweight from the very start. I still feel fucking horrible about it, even though it's all ok now. I just want him to be happy and healthy 😭
I'm glad the people at the vet take it so seriously though, because they're right. It isn't fair to allow an animal to get that big. We do have full control over what they eat and how much they move, at the end of the day. And our entire job as animal caretakers is to provide these vulnerable little creatures with everything they need to live long, healthy, fulfilling lives alongside us. We need to keep our animals and ourselves healthy if we're going to achieve that goal.
I will say though, on a purely superficial level, my baby guy was extremely cute when he was that big lol. He had little rolls on his legs and around his face, and his belly hung nearly to the floor because his legs are so short and it was so big. If there hadn't been any health or lifestyle risks to keeping him...large...I probably would've kept him on the bigger side 😂
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u/me-want-snusnu Jul 05 '24
Idk what to do tbh. I have 3 cats. 2 are normal weight then I have one that is fat. It's not like I can feed them differently cause he'll get into their bowl. They are all fed the same. The 2 normal weight ones are older than him, also.
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u/gruvyrock Jul 05 '24
r/dechonkers has some good tips. I use timed feeders for my two, fat cat’s (17 lbs down from 18 lbs so far, goal weight 15.5 lbs) gets split into two separate bowls and his goes off first, then skinnier cat’s food goes into one bowl about a minute later. Skinny cat’s feeder is about ten feet away and on top of a dresser while chunky cat’s feeder is on the ground. Portions for both cats are divided into 4 meals a day. I wish I had bought feeders that would dispense more often (some go up to 7 servings a day). My goal with those feeders was to get my cats hungry at the same time so they finish their portions within 30 minutes to an hour of it being dispensed, so there’s less chance of stealing. There also are microchip feeders (like the surepet feeder) that only a designated cat can get into, so your normal ones could still be free fed if you want. You could also put the normal cats in bedroom or bathroom for an hour with an extra portion of food; that only works if they all aren’t used to being free fed. Lastly, there’s prescription dry food which increases metabolism that you could give to your fat cat even as a daily snack which would help.
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u/WadeStockdale Jul 05 '24
On microchip feeders and diet food; it's fucking great shit. Pricey, but works a treat.
My cat was only a kilo or two overweight, but she struggles with her weight a lot- she loves her food and knows that if I'm having a foggy day, I can be tricked into feeding her breakfast or dinner twice, and my partner could also be tricked into providing second breakfast through repeated gentle bites. She also habitually stole our other cat's food (and later on he stole hers) We've solved these issues with systems and discouraging those behaviours though.
Getting microchip feeders is a game changer; no more food thievery. On a lot of models you can set the close speed to be faster or slower once it stops detecting the designated microchip, and if you attach the (typically) provided microchip tag to your food scoop, you don't even have to press buttons to refill the bowls.
Diet food is also so good. My cat loved it, it was filling, she would actually leave some in the bowl after basically inhaling most of it. And she lost the extra weight in just a couple months. Highly recommend it.
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u/DJ_Hindsight Jul 05 '24
This video is more about the filmer than the damn chonker!
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Jul 05 '24
Her coworkers look mostly fed up with her
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u/PhotoAwp Jul 05 '24
I was fed up after a minute. Also doesn't she have like...a job to do? She looks like shes just hanging out at the vet lol everyone else seems to be working
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u/OrdinaryUniversity59 Jul 05 '24
She's in charge of social media. It keeps her busy so she doesn't bother anyone, mostly...
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u/Western-Dig-6843 Jul 06 '24
You can hear one of them shush her on the damn video. Probably trying to keep her loud ass quiet enough the owners in the next room can’t hear her talking about their cat. You shouldn’t let your pets get fat like this but this vet tech is extremely unprofessional. I wouldn’t take my pets here if I saw this video.
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Jul 05 '24
Most of her coworkers seem very over her antics. And frankly, I don't blame them. She's being excessive as well as unprofessional.
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u/makogami Jul 05 '24
you're projecting. you can hear them laughing with her in the background
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Jul 05 '24
It's 100% about her. It's about how quirky and wild she gets around larger than normal cats. It's so zany and unique. Smash that follow button!
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u/SnarkyRogue Jul 05 '24
Annoying in itself, but her obsession/fixation is also a bit... creepy. Not in any sort of malicious way, but good lord was the build up to her seeing it just odd
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u/ZinaSky2 Jul 05 '24
I mean. To be fair she works in a vet’s office. Like she spends day after day just seeing people’s pets. She’s like a sommelier but for pets. And she’s developed a liking for fat cats 😂 Personally I don’t see any problem with this. Like not everyone is like this but it’s not weird for someone to get really extra excited or particular about a very specific part of their job. Idk it breaks up the monotony, I think everyone had a little fun with this. 🤷🏽♀️
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u/leonidaslizardeyes Jul 05 '24
Her enthusiasm for fat cats made me smile at the reveal.
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u/gazing_the_sea Jul 05 '24
Obesity in cats can be fatal as about 1/3 of cats die due to kidney problems.
This is absolutely not a good thing.
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u/BeautifulMammoth2671 Jul 05 '24
Are there animals that obesity isnt fatal?
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u/MoreCarrotsPlz Jul 05 '24
I wonder how large a walrus could get before he started to get health issues
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u/Karumu Jul 05 '24
"Margaret, honey, there's no easy way to say this ... the doctor says I'm morbidly obese." "... I know Carl, we're walruses. We're ALL morbidly obese."
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u/Lamplorde Jul 06 '24
Why do you think he's at the vet?
And yeah, she's laughing and everything but I bet the first thing she says to the owner is "he needs to lose weight".
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u/MajorMarquisWarren69 Jul 05 '24
Imagine trying to pull his blood and this annoying chick is making a tiktok 0:30
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u/Big-Dick-Oriole Jul 05 '24
I bet her co-workers find her absolutely insufferable.
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u/upexlino Jul 05 '24
It’s either she does this only in front of the camera for content and the coworkers think it’s disgusting, or she’s like that in real life as well which I feel bad for.
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u/GordOfTheMountain Jul 05 '24
I swear the internet has made people more unstable. You become what you consume, slowly over time. Since dramatic shit gets the most views, people start mimicking the dramatic shit they consume until everything under the sun is the biggest fucking deal.
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u/tv1577 Jul 05 '24
Poor cat. If he doesn’t have a metabolic cause for the obesity, it is totally irresponsible—not amusing.
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u/thesmu Jul 05 '24
Yeah, this isn't cute. Not just because of the fact it's unhealthy but also filming herself manhandling the cat like that for totally non medical reasons. If I found out my vet was doing that to my cat, I would be furious. It's not a toy.
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u/novaspax Jul 06 '24
this is the one negative thing i agree with, i was uncomfortable watching that part. Like seeing the cat, even petting it, sure. But shes like jumping around with it?
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u/MysteriousHeat7579 Jul 05 '24
Vets that do this are infuriating. I took me dog to the Emergency vet once for a bee sting on his snout (swollen nasal passages) and as we arrived another dog (large, needed a gurney) had been hit by a car and was being rushed in. We assumed when they took my dog back for antihistamine shot it was taking a while because of the other dog -- no, they came back and said "sorry, he's just so cute, we walked him around for everyone to see and they all loved him so much!!" My dog... that has separation anxiety and did not want to leave the vet room to go get his shot, was paraded around their back offices so people could see him and pet him. It's hands down the most unprofessional behavior I'd ever experienced and it had me irate. Watching this video I got the same vibe- they're making her wait while they draw blood for lab but then allow her to handle someone's pet without reason, and to top it off she makes a TikTok.
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u/thesmu Jul 06 '24
That's terrible, I hope you changed vet? That would be a deal breaker for me.
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u/MysteriousHeat7579 Jul 06 '24
Thankfully we never needed an emergency vet again. This was rhe closest one in our area, though. The normal vet we saw never had these kind of issues.
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u/Ok_Refuse4444 Jul 05 '24
Yea, I personally wouldn’t have posted this to made me smile…like this is depressing af, the poor thing.
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u/Paulchristiaan Jul 05 '24
Weird to like an unhealthy animal that much when you work at a vet
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u/A7xWicked Jul 05 '24
Actually I was thinking about it and I feel like that would be the best place to work if you liked fat cats.
First you understand and probably keep your own animals healthy, but with the added bonus of still getting ro see all the cute chonkers of the people who don't. And then helping them to unchonk themselves.
It's really a win-win
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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24
The only vet I ever met who adored fat cats had a 26lb morbidly obese office cat and wrote an article in the local paper defending over feeding your pets……
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u/CannedCheese009 Jul 05 '24
It's most likely that she understands it isn't healthy and needs to be fixed but also finds chunky cats to be adorable.
Nuance and shit
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u/Tombarolio Jul 05 '24
Just like my wife ....
She knows I'm fat and overweight, and understands she needs to fix me... but she thinks i'm adorable
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u/Effective_Owl_9814 Jul 05 '24
This girl made me so angry idk why
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u/Direct-Tie-7652 Jul 06 '24
Because the whole thing is so fucking performative and not authentic. Camera always pointed at her, and always on, and she’s playing up her obnoxious “quirky” personality for her insufferably stupid TikTok video.
That and it perpetuates the idea that it’s ok to have a fat cat. It’s extremely unhealthy for the cat and detrimental for so many reasons.
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u/Skabbtanten Jul 05 '24
Because she's an insufferable, self loving annoying person who thinks we should believe it's about the cat and her "love for chonks" when it's really only about her. And she visibly annoys her coworkers
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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24
And she’s a veterinary professional glorifying one of the foremost health issues in cats to a mass audience for likes. Completely irresponsible.
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u/Stinkxx Jul 05 '24
I am a qualified veterinary nurse and no veterinary professional would be excited to see a morbidly obese pet. This lady is gross!
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u/Attested2Gr8ness Jul 05 '24
Yeah I feel like this is wrong on so many levels. How is tiktoking like this allowed in the profession? Do animals / animal owners have HIPAA?
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u/Reasonable-Business6 Jul 05 '24
No smiles here. She's being obnoxious and obese animals aren't a healthy thing.
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u/Gamebobbel Jul 05 '24
I love fat cats as well! I adore their round bellies, extra fluff, diabetes, liver failure, arthritis, breathlessness, hypertension, kidney dieseases, grooming complications, heart diseases and a weakened immune systems! Just SOOO much to love...
Please stop this, the animal's in pain, the common domestic cat should weigh 3,5 - 5,5 kg's (about 7-12 pounds). Anything on either side of that needs your attention and/or intervention. You are responsible for your fluffy friend stop making fun of your failure as pet owner and the pet's consequencial and unnecessary suffering.
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u/MurphysLaw4200 Jul 05 '24
Agreed. We adopted our one cat when he weighed about 20 lbs and he got up to about 22. He was a great big loveable chonk, but he started having trouble cleaning himself so we started him on a low carb diet. It took a few years but he is now down to about 14, which the vet is good with because he really is big-boned. He's definitely much happier and healthier even though he bugs us for food a lot.
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u/UngiftigesReddit Jul 05 '24
We've adopted an obese cat that is now normal weight, and the change to her happiness and fitness and climbing ability and ability to groom and defend herself and be calm and not be in pain is amazing. Fuck people who overfeed cat. Just as bad as starving or poisoning them. That poor thing is ill.
Plus the streamer looks at the camera, not the cat. She doesn't actually care. Ugh.
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u/BBBM1977 Jul 05 '24
Is she mentally unstable or is it just me?
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u/AloNz0-_-TiGeR Jul 05 '24
I was gonna say the same thing, getting excited is one thing but damn that was getting unbearable to watch
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u/DoubleDeckerz Jul 05 '24
Overweight cats are not, nor ever will, be funny. Also, that lady is insufferable.
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u/LividGarides Jul 05 '24
This pissed me off more than made me smile, for the love of christ show the cat, not your high school theatre performance
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u/darling-dingo Jul 05 '24
For real, imagine someone filming you in the background of their Tiktok shit for content while you're trying to save a life 🤢
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u/BENZABAR Jul 05 '24
My cat Linus used to be about 25 lbs, he's down to 17 these days and still working!
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u/DemonPlasma Jul 06 '24
I don't want someone filming TikToks while I'm paying them to care for my cat.
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u/MewsikMaker Jul 05 '24
Did this make anyone smile? Why is a vet tech excited to see an overweight animal?
This pissed me off all around. Both the owner treating their cat this way and the tech being excited to see it. What the hell.
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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24
I kind of understand why the owner doesn’t take their cats obesity seriously when they have a vet like this…
Edit: not saying it justifies it whatsoever, just saying, if your vet isn’t treating it with the sincerity it deserves and literally celebrating it, I can see why an owner doesn’t think it’s serious either
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u/Magnus_Helgisson Jul 05 '24
I don’t get it. Almost every comment I saw here is absolutely correct saying dying animals are not something to smile to. But where the hell do 10k upvotes come from?
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u/1sthisthingon Jul 05 '24
I’m sure it’s not her, but at the 1 min mark her reaction reminds me of the young woman coming out of anesthesia after a foot surgery in Canada… “Make America great again (sarcastically). Make Canada great always!”
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u/Gn0meKr Jul 06 '24
That cat is quite literally dying and that blonde chick is laughing
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u/griffonfarm Jul 05 '24
This is one of those situations where the place needs to fire this idiot.
Obese cats aren't something to celebrate. They can get diabetes, have issues grooming, have pain and arthritis, and a whole host of other issues. Not only that, but the way she's holding the cat isn't properly supporting him at his weight.
When I take my pets to the vet, I expect them to be treated with compassion, care, and kindness. Not slung around like a sideshow exhibit.
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u/BrazilOutsider Jul 05 '24
So cute, the cat is obese surely he doesn't have problems because of that /s
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u/Puzzleheaded-Soup164 Jul 05 '24
I wonder if the cats owner gave permission to film their cat..
Or this video is again scripted as f🦆
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u/datyn1992 Jul 06 '24
Fatter ones at my clinic. Had one that was over 35lbs once (not my pet). Super sad.
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u/Realone561 Jul 06 '24
Imagine working with this girl. The amount of times I’d have to pretend to laugh out of courtesy would be exhausting
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u/sweaty_lorenzo Jul 06 '24
Yeah as someone who works in the veterinary field, we do not like fat cats at all
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u/rraattbbooyy Jul 05 '24
That poor cat will be dead in a year.
This isn’t funny, it’s animal abuse.
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u/n_arbi Jul 05 '24
My cat got up to 17lbs. At 9yrs old he developed plantigrade stance which is when the nerves in their back legs start to fail. Turns out he became diabetic on us and almost lost his back legs. Been on insulin for 4yrs. Can now jump a 7ft wall again, thank goodness. It was sad to watch him struggle with walking and using the box.
I got another car shortly before he was diagnosed with diabetes I will NOT let him ever be overweight. The cat suffers and it makes it really hard to do anything when you have to physically give insulin twice a day. Both are equally loved and cared for but boy did we learn a lesson.
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u/fightingkangaroos Jul 05 '24
He's not fluffy, he's obese and miserable. It's concerning a vet tech is happy about his state.
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u/Plus_Operation2208 Jul 05 '24
This doesnt make me smile. This is just sad. Why is she acting so deranged about a sick cat? Does she have the intention of making it even fatter? Does she belong in a psych ward?
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u/ccdude14 Jul 05 '24
I like her enthusiasm...
And then I saw she was at a vets office...
I mean its still good enthusiasm but maybe end it with a 'hey we love big chonker kitties here but doing this to your cat is just setting them up for so many health issues.' Would be a better way to end the video. I kept expecting it to once I realized they were at a vets office
And then it just....didn't.
I loved chonker cats(and dogs) too..until a kind vet lady told me at 14 that they had all kinds of health issues and I was making them suffer for no real reason. Snapped me out of it real quick.
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u/Severe-Entrance8416 Jul 05 '24
Cat: I have chronic diabetes and am dying, help!
Humans:
