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Original picture: https://feedmerightmeow.tumblr.com/post/141531397240
The fake story doesn't add anything nor does it hurt anyone (except maybe the truth), but I was curious to see the original image
Edit: linked the post instead of the image itself
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.
People lying on the internet again.
I'm certainly not a veterinarian and I'm quite prepared to be proven wrong, but yeah your explanation seems much more likely
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