petcareawareness:

wardenmcpherson:

unsuspectingfish:

smelly-children:

hey? obese animals aren’t cute dude

My cat is on daily glucosamine supplements and will probably hit a point later in her life where she’ll barely be able to walk and have to take daily pain meds because of the joint damage done by her previous owner letting her hit 1.5x her ideal body weight.

Us humans have loads of body types, with our diffent races and genders and classes, but even a rail-thin human is gonna have a higher percent body fat than any land animal has reason to have. We’re unique in that way. So maybe we assume the same of our animals. A human can be healthy with fifty pounds of fat strapped to their body, but we’re freaks.

As human beings we can make our own informed choices about our bodies and our diets. Our animals cannot. We’ve also reproduced in such a way that the ‘ideal’ body weight for a human being varies wildly based on the genetics of individual human beings. 

This is not the case with our pets and a higher than ideal body weight for our pets can mean health problems like bumblefoot in rats, back problems in corgis and daschunds, joint problems in large dogs, diabetes in cats, etc.

Absolutely be for fat acceptance and body positivity in human beings, but also acknowledge that it’s a different story with our pets.