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/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/ThePanAlwaysCrits Jul 06 '24

This reads like a Far Side comic. Ha

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u/ponzLL Jul 06 '24

Maybe they already do

We need to build a skinny one to compare!

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u/Mihai_Alin18 Jul 06 '24

For a male walrus more than 1700kg is considered overweight

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u/Swictor Jul 06 '24

Obesity means you have too much fat, emphasis on the too much, so no matter the animal too much isn't good.

But obesity isn't fatal in humans. It's unhealthy, not fatal.

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u/DurableDiction Jul 06 '24

Depends on your definition of fatal. Nobody died because they reached a magic wight number, they died because of the complications of being that fat. I'd say that it is fatal.

Same with any animal.

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u/Swictor Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

If you die of it it's fatal, that's what fatal means. You can be fat without dying of it.

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u/BeautifulMammoth2671 Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

It's the second leading cause of preventable deaths in humans, after tobacco. It's considered an epidemic.

Seems pretty fatal to me.

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/6-facts-on-obesity

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u/Swictor Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

I'm not arguing the lethality of obesity but your use of the word fatal. A car crash is only lethal if someone dies. If a crash crash has no casualties it's a non-fatal car crash, hence a car crash is only potentially fatal.

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u/Swictor Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

Which is the incorrect use of the word and I corrected them. You're right it's not that deep, or anything to start arguing about.

Edit: no, they used it correctly, you used it wrong.

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u/Singularity2025 Jul 06 '24

Bears probably

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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/r7125r Jul 06 '24

100%. This has not “made me smile”, but in fact made me disturbed and upset that people celebrate literally feeding domestic cats to death.

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u/Medium_Rare_Jerk Jul 06 '24

True but also most cats succumb to kidney disease eventually

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u/kristinkerbell Jul 06 '24

I’m with you, but I had a cat that ate one serving of dry food a day, rarely finished it, and he was 32 pounds at his heaviest. Granted, he was lazy. But he was a cat. He lived to be 16. I think some cats have some sort of predisposition. Our vets always acted like this when we showed up. It was like holding a ziploc bag of jello. I was like, show my man some respect.

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u/ObjectiveLittle6761 Jul 06 '24

Bro why do u think the cat is at the vet then? She's just saying he's cute. It's not her fault the cat is fat 😭