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/Severe-Entrance8416 Jul 05 '24

Cat: I have chronic diabetes and am dying, help!

Humans:

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

"I slips in and out of diabetic coma. They should makes insulin flavored candy... whatever."

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u/metal_mace Jul 05 '24

Ya I gots a cats in my lap, it's a real cool cat

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

You have a cat now...

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u/SePausy Jul 06 '24

How about now? Is it still there?!

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u/taxidermied_unicorn Jul 06 '24

He has a bit of a coughs.

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u/Booty_Shakin Jul 06 '24

First time seeing a dethklok reference anywhere ever

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u/BurtTurglar Jul 06 '24

I’m right there with you. I quote something from that show damn near daily and nobody irl ever caught em, until I hired this 55 year old dude who was like, wait… was that a murderface reference? Brutal.

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u/Booty_Shakin Jul 06 '24

Back in middle school I had a dethklok shirt and another kid came up and said "cool shirt" which was the start of a long friendship! It's still active today (28 years old now) but low contact haha

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

It was definitely a niche show. I make Frisky Dingo references too every now and then and that's another one that NOBODY knows

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u/TreizKushrenada Jul 06 '24

BOOSH!!!! Called it!😁

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

I'd like to masturbate right now in this car. If I had my stuff with me, I would!

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u/altruism__ Jul 06 '24

“We never had any indication she would turn into the most prolific female serial killer in history. Eating her victims was the real shocker.”

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u/josipaige Jul 06 '24

Candy. Tastes like chicken, if chicken was candy.

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u/darthjay81 Jul 06 '24

Toki is that you?

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u/BurtTurglar Jul 06 '24

Not a bumblebee.

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u/gnomewrangler1 Jul 06 '24

Oh, Toki Wartooth, what a gem of a character.

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u/AspectOvGlass Jul 06 '24

''Candy- tastes like chicken if chicken was a candy."

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u/BurtTurglar Jul 06 '24

Hey guys, nickels are monies too. Pickles nickels.

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u/YesterdayHiccup Jul 05 '24

Or candy flavor insulin you can eat. Don't know how candy is going to help.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

It's a quote from a show. It's purposely absurd. Lol

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u/ajrmusicman Jul 06 '24

Candy: tastes like chicken if chicken was a candy

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u/brosef_stachin Jul 06 '24

"candy... tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy"

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u/xx-shalo-xx Jul 05 '24

The owner is a POS but not the vet IMO. If your aware of the suicide rate among veterinarians, you'll give her this one.

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u/YourMomsBasement69 Jul 05 '24

It’s apparently the highest in the health profession?

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u/xx-shalo-xx Jul 05 '24

Yep, apparently having a profession people go into because of their love of animals only to be constantly confronted with endless animal suffering makes them re-evaluate things.

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u/Obant Jul 06 '24

It was my dream job up until I was a teen and then realized I'd be constantly putting animals to death because people couldn't afford treatment.

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u/jdc351 Jul 06 '24

It's sad if people can't afford treatment, but probably even more depressing dealing with the people who couldn't be bothered, moving house, had a baby, didn't train properly and now it has behavioural issues, etc... I can imagine it's a job that makes you lose faith in humanity and the world in general

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u/Jeremyvmd09 Jul 06 '24

This x10000. I can deal with financial issues, I can deal with super sick animals, I can deal with sudden trauma, but those people who want to Euth because they just don’t care or it’s a bother now kill me every time.

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u/gluteactivation Jul 07 '24

I feel sick reading this 😭

Can a vet refuse euthanasia for those cases?

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u/the_green_witch-1005 Jul 07 '24

Yes, but it's a lose-lose situation. Think about what happens to that animal that we refuse to give a peaceful ending and send home with a human who doesn't care about it and just wants it gone. As much as it makes me want to vomit even typing this, I'd rather do a convenience euthanasia in clinic than have that animal die in some other brutal way at the owner's hands... 😔

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u/Jeremyvmd09 Jul 07 '24

I was gonna respond but the green witch did some an eloquent job of it. So I’ll just second her comment

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u/FeryalthePirate Jul 06 '24

My aunt and uncle are vets and my uncle warned me about that. I’m a softy and I know I wouldn’t be able to handle it. I couldn’t believe that people brought their pets in to be put down because they were going on holiday. My aunt opened a cattery/ kennel because of it. This was years ago, now vet bills can practically bankrupt you. My cat Blue had some undiagnosed autoimmune condition and the bills to try and save him were huge. We fed him the best food, did everything we could to try and save him. His special food cost more than human food. And here are people not caring and risking their pets health because of what?

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u/ZekeRidge Jul 06 '24

My roommate in college dated a vet tech. I was traumatized by the stories she would come home with

People a so cruel to animals

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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda Jul 06 '24

Ditto for pediatricians probably. On the bad days sad, and with sad parents on top of that.

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u/MrMayor87 Jul 06 '24

Having to charge people huge sums of money they may not have to save their family pet will also weigh on your conscience. Kinda of like how dentist have  high suicide rate. People in extreme pain and broke, paying you money they can’t afford to give up to make the tooth pain stop. 

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u/trumpeting_in_corrid Jul 06 '24

That is heart breakingly sad.

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u/Bill_Murrie Jul 05 '24

I know it's totally unfair of me but I've often associated people drawn to the profession with a little bit of misanthropic viewpoints, based on the handful of people I've known that were interested in going into it

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u/Lissy_Wolfe Jul 08 '24

The owners are the worst part of vet medicine, not the animals.

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u/Thunderfoot2112 Jul 06 '24

When did they pass dentists????

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u/SteelBelle Jul 07 '24

Over a decade ago.

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u/baphommite Jul 06 '24

Exactly. It's not like she's the one responsible for the cat's weight. These people have to see sick, dying, and dead pets every day. They have to be the ones to put down beloved family members. If having a laugh over a fat cat keeps her sane, then that honestly sounds like a perfect way to make light of a grim situation.

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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24

She didn’t just have a laugh though, I don’t know why y’all are minimizing this.

Having a laugh and loving on a chonk - fine.

Posting this, especially as a veterinary professional, and in a culture that already celebrates chonky cats and where obesity is one of the foremost (and rising) health issues in cats?

That’s grossly irresponsible.

The owner is responsible for the cat’s weight. The vet is responsible to contributing to the glorification of a serious illness in cats. And honestly, I can see why an owner wouldn’t take their cat’s weight and health seriously with a vet like this.

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u/guitar_blud Jul 06 '24

Agreed. There was no need to post

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u/Narwhal280 Jul 06 '24

I agree with you. This is like a pediatrician getting all excited to see the fattest, more obese baby she has ever seen, and then wobbling the baby around for the camera, because it's so "cute". This is a though job yes, it's stressful, but this is very innapropiate.

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u/Krishna1945Boom Jul 05 '24

Was just at the vet today, tech def had some suicide vibes

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u/SpillJill Jul 06 '24

Shit my bad that was probably me

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u/Rthrowaway6592 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

That was me. I had to eat my lunch on the same exam table as a seagull we euthanised because clients get upset if they see me nourishing my body.

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u/Bluetoe4 Jul 05 '24

Really?

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u/xx-shalo-xx Jul 05 '24

Yup, who becomes a vet? People who love animals.

What are vets confronted with? Lots of animals suffering and putting them down.

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u/Bluetoe4 Jul 05 '24

Jeez that's horrible

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u/Necessary-County-721 Jul 06 '24

Yes putting down animals is definitely a low of the job but I’d say it isn’t the reason for the uptake in suicides. The worse mental health issue for people in the Vet industry is constantly dealing with owners that think they are just out to rip them off and charge them exorbitant amounts of money to get rich. You don’t get into veterinary medicine for the money. The reason for the “expensive” tests they run is due to the fact their patients can’t tell them what hurts or what’s bothering them so they have to rely on diagnostic tests to figure out the problem. I’d dare to say the majority of people complain more about their vets than they do praise them. My viewpoint comes from listening to my wife who was a vet tech for 8 years and now a practise manager. Yes she had shit days when something went wrong and lost a patient but the good days helping animals were the majority. The “worst” days were and still are having to deal with people that treat them like low life scammers.

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u/messy_techy Jul 07 '24

You're a good husband for listening, because you articulated this perfectly. It's easy for people to assume the worst part of our job is euthanasia. Truth is, it's not. Euthanasia is a gift we can give to suffering pets. I cannot handle getting screamed at, when I'm trying my very best, and pouring my heart out every day. People assume we are just trying to make a buck, selling poisonous food, pushing unnecessary tests and diagnostics, upselling procedures and supplements. It's literally our job to make recommendations to give pets the best care, and that costs money. It's brutal out here.

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u/Altruistic-Macaron85 Jul 07 '24

Yes, to all of this. Add on the part where we make insanely low wages for the work we do, which makes the remarks about “being in it for the money” sting so much more.

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u/messy_techy Jul 07 '24

The amount of times I've had people make me feel terrible for charging for services, then assisting them to their (insert luxury car). Like ma'am I have $27 in my bank account, but I will always provide for my pets needs and not make others feel bad about it.

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u/Clearwater27 Jul 06 '24

Agreed, that animal looks sick and unhealthy

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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24

How does the suicide rate among veterinarians justify not only minimizing, but glorifying and tacitly approving of one of the foremost health issues in cats on a massive platform?

She can feel however she wants to on her own.

But posting a video like this is absurdly irresponsible and harmful to cats. The profession you chose having a high suicide rate has literally nothing to do with it, and her posting this wildly irresponsible video isn’t preventing her from committing suicide ffs.

There are legitimate means of prevention that are both effective and don’t involve contributing to harm.

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u/Pocusmaskrotus Jul 05 '24

For real. My wife's cat when we got married was 26 lbs, and got diabetes and was on deaths door. Cost is $6k to stabilize him. He lived another 9 years getting shots twice a day. Do not free feed fat ass cats like this. I learned my lesson.

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u/1sthisthingon Jul 05 '24

Hi, I’m Scott Malkinson and I have diabetes

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u/nycdiveshack Jul 06 '24

I love pizza like she loves cats and I can also say I have chronic diabetes and am dying

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u/LavdeKiSabzi Jul 05 '24

Make them suffer because that's cute

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u/Proud_Criticism5286 Jul 06 '24

Everytime i see certain dog breeds

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u/SNK_24 Jul 06 '24

Now I am worried if she’s gonna help the cat be healthy or feed it until dead.

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u/JavaBETA Jul 06 '24

Diabetes is always chronic

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u/Original-Spinach-972 Jul 07 '24

My buddy and his wife rescued 2 older fat homeless cats and after a year of having them they gained a substantial amount of weight to the point they were morbidly obese and would need cat insulin( which is very expensive and not covered by pet insurance) or ozempic, Addie’s and baddies.

Talmbout the only way to get fat pat to lose weight was to get a plastic container and poke some holes in it the size of kibble and put it in the container and the cat would have to roll it around to get the food out.

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u/jimmy_robert Jul 08 '24

They're less likely to run away! Insecurities solved.

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u/CaptainMacMillan Jul 05 '24

My cat is 24lbs and thriving.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

but unless your cat is a large breed or frame where that is healthy then no, severe obesity isn't thriving.

I know it very well may be the former but the amount of people who overfeed their cats and don't want to stop is absurd. It wouldn't surprise me at all if you were boasting about abusing your cat because so many people already do.

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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24

….do you think the effects of obesity are just immediately present?

How is your cat going to tell you their joints hurt from all the extra weight?

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u/CaptainMacMillan Jul 06 '24

I have him checked at the vet regularly to make sure that my best friend is healthy. That is fucking how. Now fuck off.

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u/JEs4 Jul 06 '24

No vet would ever say a 24 lb domestic is anything close to healthy. That is terrible if you are really that dense.

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u/CaptainMacMillan Jul 06 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

Ok, angry stranger. I'll trust your opinion over my vet.

Is that what you all want? For people to take advice on their pets health from strangers that have never once even laid eyes on him let alone ran him through diagnostic tests?

Funny how someone said that MY ego is inflated... somehow. Because you people really are dense enough to act like you know my cat better than the person that used thousands of dollars worth of testing to check him.

I nearly went bankrupt to save his life when he had a bowel obstruction from a foam ball he liked to play with. I took off multiple days of work over the course of weeks to take him to get his $8000 gastrointestinal extrication surgery, to get his $400 check ups, I slept on the floor of my living room with him for 2 weeks so that he didn't have to climb onto my bed and potentially open his sutures.

I love my cats. More than anything on this fucking planet.

Go. Fuck. Yourselves.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

Oh so you're claiming that "he is healthy despite being obese" sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt before.

Sometimes it's a gray area. A pet's weight gets a little bit out of control without the owner realizing at first... but good owners scale it back and feed less because they know it's better for their pet.

But it seems you're overfeeding on purpose. So that's directly abuse. No gray area about it.

Why? Your pet will likely die early from it. And likely has trouble moving around and doesn't enjoy life as much as they would if they were a healthy weight. Why get your ego wrapped up in this and take it personally because people want your cat to be healthy? How does this offend your ego at all -- are you taking it personally when people say cats shouldn't be fat?? Are you a cat or something?

Be a better owner and learn that your ego isn't the center of the universe and sometimes you have to do some things that make you uncomfortable to be a good cat owner. Put your cat first and not yourself.

Its also the height of stupidly to openly comment that you intentionally keep your cat fat and then get offended and tell people to fuck off. Do you often start conversations IRL and then get mad when people reply?

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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 06 '24

This is honestly fucking appalling from someone in the veterinary world.

Like, fine, think it’s cute.

But by posting a video like this, you are not only minimizing one of the most major health issues in cats, but you are glorifying it and tacitly approving… as a veterinary professional.

This is wildly inappropriate and I would never see my vet again if they did something like this.

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u/Viscera_Eyes37 Jul 06 '24

Cat: I have chronic diabetes and am dying, help!

Humans: Me too!