"Dog fatphobia is a HUGE issue in the dog community!"
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Hey! This video is probably very infuriating for most dog owners and very long, so feel free to leave multiple comments to vent your frustrations 💙💙😂😂.
I was somehow able to make it through. But I honestly had to put my phone down a couple times from how frustrating watching fat activists is
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It’s making me so mad… she doesn’t need to be anywhere near an animal. She’s giving out misinformation left and right. She needs to come work one freaking day in a clinic. I hate her.
I'm honestly shook, I can't believe I'm even watching someone explain dog fatphobia
There's a woman in a mobility scooter a couple of doors down from me who still manages to walk and play with her Australian shepherd. I'm already done with CZcams tonight what is happening
It's funny how she thought the toddler argument was such a hot take. "Do you judge parents with a fat toddler?" Yes, yes I do.
Agreed, of course I'm judging someone's parenting if their child is fat, my MIL is a terrible parent to my fellas half bro and sis, both obese and miserable (like her) no activities or sport, just gaming and eating (like her), she let's them stay up past midnight and they do no chores, they don't listen to her or respect her, she never tells them no, honestly, she's a bad parent and thank god my fella was raised by his grandparents.
As an aunt of two. Yes. Absolutely.
Right?! I do be judging you if your kids are fat.
Here in the UK, actual Judges judge parents with massively obese children - they get judged as unfit parents and their kids are taken away and put into care.
YEP. She's so out of touch for using that as a 'gotcha'. And the smug look too...nauseating
'do you judge a parent for having a fat toddler's
Yes, I do. They're over feeding someone who has no control over what they eat.
they are also severely limiting their chances of ever getting their weight back on track as an adult (due to got microbiome, bad habits, metabolic issues, diabetes etc.). Letting a child gain that much weight will set them up for failure long term.
@@wolfsmaid6815 im lucky to be getting my weight down again since i was never 200pounds, i couldnt imagine being so young and already way larger than healthy
This.
You are caretaker of dogs and children, you *must* make good choices for them, because they literally cannot.
Also toddlers can't easily communicate if something is wrong, if something hurts, etc. So if you overfeed your toddler until they're fat it's going to be super difficult for them to communicate it to you when they are having health problems from it.
@@wolfsmaid6815
100%. I was raised obese, almost 200lbs by the time I was 13. endlessly miserable, couldn't fit kid's clothes or go on kid's rides, always in pain, bullied, insecure, etc. essentially couldn't be a kid.
I can't imagine that kind of neglect being anything but pure evil.
Pet fatphobia is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. They’re small creatures, they’re not meant to weigh that much, it’s killing them. This is ridiculous
I had a back and forth with someone once who said that calling a dog a "mutt" was a slur against them. I thought they were trolling but they seemed genuinely bothered that I disagreed. When they go extreme, they really dedicate to it lol
I agree
What the hack 😳 is doggy 🐕 fatphobia ? oh ya I know
@@skinsey85 I feel bad for this person's mental health like how deeply chronically online and lonely they must be ...
@Girl in the Striped Sweater 🏳️🌈 wow...just wow🤦🏾♀️knowing someone that stupid exists hurts my brain
"Do you judge a parent because they have a fat toddler."
Yes.
Of course. It’sneglect
This gives me "cats can be vegan" flashbacks and I HATE everything about it.
Lmao-what
Oh lord, I just got the shivers and not the good kind. 😂
YES! I had the same thought.
Literally
Me too… it’s like people are trying to drag other species into human insanity… reminds me of that one alcoholic person who wants their other friends to get as drunk as them so they don’t feel bad about themselves…
Funtie, I love you girl, but I'm not about to listen to these fools whine about fat dogs now. I can only handle so much buffoonery.
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Fair enough 🤣😂
This one reached my limits.
This is somehow even MORE STUPID.
@Lalogue Her Smug face 🤡 after making dumb arguments makes me Rage
Knowing that such stupidity exists is basically a mental health hazard 😅
I hate being this person, but if you're in a place where you can't adequately care for your dog, then don't get a dog. And I mean that, in every single way - mental, physical, emotional, and financial.
I agree. This person is selfish and immature-- not someone who should be responsible for other people and creatures.
I was thinking the same thing! Glad I'm not the only one.
Don’t get yes, but I ain’t giving up my fur baby after I got them. I’ll give them my everything.
I remember getting my first wolfdog/husky mix puppy at age 18. I moved out from home and desperately wanted to have a pet (since my parents didn´t like pets) and I was ready to sacrifice my time and money to finally have a dog.
So I got a job, a small car, a place to live and this puppy: fast forward 5 months and this pupper needed surgery because he had eaten a roll of gauze bandages while I left him at home unsupervised to go grocery shopping and the surgery cost me a little over 2000€. I didn´t have that kind of money back then, my job only paid around 800€/month and I had to pay rent etc. so I sold the car and then went a few months surviving off of the bare minimum (bread, water, apples - that´s it.).
This taught me such an important lesson about knowing what you are getting yourself into before taking on this responsibility of having a pet/child. Too many people just get a pet with no second thought beyond their selfish benefit from having one and it´s so sad to see these animals end up in shelters or being neglected.
The dog is fine btw., he survived the surgery and hasn´t needed any medical care since then apart from yearly check-ups. :)
same to having kids
"Dog fatphobia." Just over 15 seconds in and my rage is already brewing.
I'm convinced they have to be trolling ain't no way they believe the shit they are saying.
I showed my my mom this and 3 minutes in she said “I gave birth to you, why are you doing this to me?” 🤣💀
I've never commented before but this video is beyond enraging. I'm a dog groomer and have worked in some capacity with dogs for the last 10 years. I cannot tell you the times I have cried after grooming a dog that's so severely obese and miserable that my heart aches just looking at them. The older they get the worse they get. Frequently they develop diabetes, lose their eye sight, have seizures, and become incapacitated. Unable to stand or walk or support their bodies much like bed bound super morbidly obese humans. I've cleaned open wounds that were basically bed sores. I've tended urine burned skin on their inner thighs and behinds because they cannot stand to urinate or defecate. I've clipped nails deeply embedded into their paw pads bc the cannot stand and their nails never get worn down on walks.
I've seen dogs drag their body's along the ground (bassets and dachshunds) because their legs are not long enough and their torsos so distended they cannot lift them off of the ground. I've groomed dogs so obese they had actual butt cheeks that I have to lift to shave. Rolls developing yeast and bacterial infections from staying moist all of the time.
Just like obese children- it is torture, it is cruelty, it is neglect and it is abuse.
Ultra-processed dog kibble that's basically straight carbs/corn are doing the same thing to the dogs as fast/processed food is to us- killing them.
Combine that with neglectful owners who never exercise their dogs and think a pudgy dog is "cute" is a recipe for disaster.
I hate this. I hate this so so so much.
My mom's dog lost a decent amount of weight after I told her to only ever buy food that has actual meat as the top ingredient. I also told her to put her dog on a schedule and to feed her a specific amount from what the bag says so that likely contributed too. While I know the other foods are cheaper, if it has corn, cornmeal, etc, it's getting put back on the shelf. I got this advice some random place on the internet and I've just never realized how terrible the ingredients have gotten until I actually took the advice and time to look. It's just sad what dogs are being fed now a days. From what you've said, I can't even imagine what could've become of my mom's poor pup had I never come across whatever post I saw.
Thekitchenwitch. Your comment brought tears to my eyes. These people really anger me. And I would bet if you gave them advice they would be "offended" or get angry. My heart aches for these dogs and cats or any other pet that is abused.
Forgive my bluntness, but your passion for this is refreshing. It’s just nice to see someone care so much about animals’ well-being.
This reminds me of when one of the family cats was obese.
Typically we just leave food out 24/7, and usually it's fine. But this cat used to be indoor/outdoor. At one point he got lost for a month and came back bone thin with a claw stuck out, we think he was either stuck all that time or got hurt and was hiding while he healed. Either way, he obviously developed a fear of hunger after nearly starving, and gorged himself to obesity
Many time I suggested we start giving the cats proper meals and measuring their food to control his weight, but my (obese) mom would get enraged, claiming he's "just big boned" and that it'd be cruel to "starve" him after what he went through
After years, he finally lost weight, and my mom was so proud about it, saying he knew his body or whatever... Until he stopped going in the litterbox properly. A couple vet visits later and he's diagnosed with terminal cancer and multiple end-stage organ diseases. THAT'S why he was losing weight, not because he, a cat, suddenly understood how weight gain works.
He died shortly after, in horrific pain before being put down. He likely would've lived a few more years had we controlled his weight.
It'd be cruel to point this out to my mom, that cat was everything to her, but I can't help but be furious when I think about it. The other family cat is everything to me, like how the first cat was to my mom, and if she puts on too much weight I will DEMAND her food intake be controlled. Funny enough she actually legitimately is "big boned", she's a pretty tiny cat overall but since she was a kitten she's had a really round belly that the vet determined was simply due to the shape of her ribcage and stuff, not fat or organ bloat. But I always make sure her mobility is good and I check her back and sides to make sure she's still a good weight. She's about 11 now and literally still bouncing off the walls with energy and life, she wants to play several times a day, which of course I indulge- the other cat was obese by that age and never played no matter how much we tried to tempt him, he'd do one "morning patrol" around the house, and get up for the litterbox and food, but then the rest of the day was laying around or sleeping (of course the other cat sleeps a lot too, that's just how cats are, but when she is awake she's lively). I wouldn't say that an obese pet necessarily has a bad owner, sometimes things happen unexpectedly and the owner doesn't realise the problem instantly, it can be hard to notice a gradual change. But if that pet STAYS obese for a long time, then yes, the owner is automatically neglectful, even if it's not malicious.
My obese type 2 diabetic father is deliberately raising his dog to mirror him, but he loves to blame him for his big appetite
Why are most people horrified when they see a starved dog, but an obese dog is cute and cuddly? The smaller frames of dogs are not MEANT to carry so much weight. It's really bad for them, no matter their genes.
Because the owner is abusing it by starving it and emancipated dog will die faster than an obese dog my dog was fat shamed we got her groomed ended up being a lot of hair
@@MelB868 Overfeeding a dog is also abusive. Weighing your dog could have helped in your case.
Okay, just based on the title my blood is already boiling lol. I can't stand people who don't take care of their pets and their weight. It's animal abuse. Dogs have no control over their health. You do. It's one thing to neglect yourself, it's another to neglect a dog whose health you are responsible for. I will 'shame' these people forever lol.
Makes my blood boil too. This video will be difficult to watch. The tone of these ladies while justifying abuse is just.... AGGGGHHHH
I work in the veterinary field and this makes my blood boil as well, how stupid can you freaking beee.
EXACTLY!! As someone who is training to work in the animal care industry, this genuinely really upsets me.
Same lmao. Instant fury. I cannot stand the people that talk about pets are just cute and chunky, not fat. Like good luck with your dogs developing hip dysplasia I guess.
@@slippypippy also "chonkers"....fat cats.... There's a whole subreddit for them. And sure they're adorable. But they're adorable because cats are adorable. They'd be even cuter if they were a healthy weight and had better mobility and quality of life. It makes me so mad that they prioritize how their cat looks over their health
Yes we should shame owners that have a very obese dog cause its abuse. If they actually cared about there dog, they would put them on a diet and make them lose weight. Can't believe the fat acceptance community has gotten to a point where not wanting to feed your dog to the point where it can't move and have no quality of life is considered "fatphobic"
A lot of people rescue obese dogs with the intent of improving their health; calling someone an abuser at the start of this journey is really scummy. Otherwise, I agree. Just make sure you know the context before you shame!
Yes. People absolutely judge parents when they have overweight children. Why was that even a question to her?
Hahahahaha ik she is just delusional at this point
@@winterseagull
I’d say dog is worst since they have no control ever and live too short of lives.
@@winterseagull
Hell fucking yeah they are!
Especially since they're either using food to neglect their child's needs, or over pushing large quanties of food on their kids that they cannot eat. And in my opinion that is child abuse
I mean, parents are judged so much on so many aspects of raising their children, what made her think people would draw the line at their weight?!
As someone passionate about dogs I can say there are NO healthy fat dogs. Being fat is so much worse for a dog then a human. Dogs already have short lives, they look so uncomfortable when over weight. I had a fat dog as a child and when I grew up, realised how bad it was and got weight off him he was so much more happy and healthy and actually wanted to go on walks again. Call me fatphobic idc, I do not want a fat dog as fat dogs cost money in vet bills in the long run, dogs are happier when they are fit.
im glad you helped your dog get healthier 😊
@@girlysoap9031 Thank you so much! He's 15 or 16 years old now and still going strong xx
i was waiting for someone to say this! humans are unique in that we are one of the few animals that are made to pack on weight and store it as fat. animals like cats and dogs and birds NEED to be lean. they dont store food like us, they constantly hunt and scavenge. fat is not the same for us. we are not the same species and these people have absolutely no idea what they are talking about when they try to push their agenda on innocent animals.
@@queenoftheworms2739 You are damn right, people don't realise just how much food they are giving their dogs when they are doing this too, their poor stomachs must get so stretched
@@queenoftheworms2739 Actually all animals put on weight in fat, even birds. The difference being they also lose that fat over winter when food is scarce. It's why they gain it in the first place. Humans have removed themselves from that seasonal cycle by storing food and transporting grown food world wide. We don't have a scarce season anymore so the fat that is gained from overindulgence is never lost. It just keeps building up. As our pets receive that same benefit of guaranteed nutrition year round, they have no need for extra weight in fat at any time, so when they're overfed the fat builds up from the constant overindulgence of their owner.
Did she just... Pretty much try to ground one of her followers?... What's next, taking their phone for a week?
Don’t give her any ideas!
This is so yikes.
I have a pug, a breed that is both EXTREMELY prone to obesity and VERY vulnerable to negative side effects of obesity. My dog has NEVER been fat (despite being absolutely willing to eat her own weight in kibble if the opportunity presented itself) and is still fairly active and medication-free at 14 years old. And as a bonus, she barely snores!
Oh, wow! 14 years for a pug is really impressive. Good job taking care of her!
omg that's actually really incredible! Well done on an extremely healthy pug! ^^
Our own pug is currently 16 years old and still a happy little fellow :) crazy how long some of them can live!
@@gamayundoom Elephant in the room: it's amazing because pugs are not a healthy breed by definition
Breeding pugs is unethical
I have the opposite issue with my chihuahua, she has a high likelihood of being too skinny because she's a really picky eater who would go days without eating if I let her. I have to adjust her food and add or remove components regularly to keep her eating.
On both sides of the spectrum, it's ultimately the owner's job to adjust the pet's life to better their health.
You know how FAs like to say "I don't owe you health!" Well, you DO owe your pets THEIR health! When one of my 4 cats showed signs of unhealthy weight gain, all the cats stopped "free feeding". As her caretaker, I owed the bigger cat my attention, and part of that included knowing what she is really eating (thus, a "diet"). My goal isn't even to make her a certain weight, but only to ensure I'm not enabling overconsumption. If she eats a healthy portion, but still carries more bodyfat than the other cats, no problem, she can be a chonk. If her vet is happy, I'm happy, even if she's fluffy under her fur. I just know there's no excuse for me contributing to or ignoring the problem if prevention is as easy as a little portion control.
Omg I also have a cat who is overwheight also nothing to bad but it has to be delt with so I now have to separate him from other cats so he doesn't eat more then he should
This. My aunts dog has a legit thyroid issue. He is definitely bigger than his half sister despite eating the same portion. The thing is, he’s 12 (his sister is 15), and despite the thyroid disorder working against them - this dog can still run and play at 12 years old.
She talks about access to resources - well my aunt was not a thyroid expert when she go her dog. She consulted with experts and was invested in following a workable plan, because that’s what you do for your animals.
It's the same issue with children
This new age parenting is all about making your child "happy".
I am sure heroine or other hard drugs would make a child VERY happy. Yet everyone agrees it is abuse to give them to a child
A kid can be happy playing games all day and not go to school. Or never shower, etc...
Parents do many things that prevent immediate happiness because the main goal is to have a well-adjusted adult who can be happy, long term.
Instead the post modernist outlook that social justice movements have adopted is all about euphoria, which is short term.
Young adults who adhere to the ideology seem unable to do long term planning (eg saving starbucks money to, idk, pay for a yearly holiday, even if relatively cheap) and instead seek immediate rewards (e.g. sugar from starbucks drinks), while complaining they cannot have it all.
Fat acceptance is one of the clearest and most ironic examples. The irony comes from the fact that everything in reality shows how wrong they are
While seeking euphoria from hyper palatable foods, they are destroying and abusing their bodies.
By the time they get the age where the obesity catches up to them (usually 30) they realise that they cannot escape material reality and as a philosopher once said: you are what you eat (meaning: you are first and foremost a physical being)
@Rachel Forshee I am also quite afraid
Fat acceptance is the movement that scares me the most because it's so... easy.
All you have to do is eat as much as you want. Every negative effect is just the fault of fatphobic society
I have seen friends gain weight over the pandemic, nothing major but still. They are objectively lazy and that does not make me feel good.
We went to a very easy hike that old people can do. They where out of breath and had to take breaks. They get takeouts rather than cooking themselves or going out to pick up the food directly (they live in a very walkable place). They think that walking is useless
I see my peers, young "progressive" people, transforming into the Wall-E society.
Accepting everything without question. Consuming and consuming material and immaterial goods. Developing the attention span of toddlers. Zero self control, everything can be binged on (remember when it was shameful to sit in fron of the tv for a whole day?)
Words have no meaning - there is no such thing as "health". No accountibility - that's being a bigot!
Have you seen that video of Lizzo where she is crying and telling herself she is beautiful?
We, as a society, are being constantly told to ignore our instincts. We know that fat is unhealthy (haes slip up constantly), but we have to pretend we have *progressed* beyond instincts.
It's pretty bad. I don't like where we are going. We need to touch grass, physically not metaphorically, more often
my grandma has a golden retriever that’s now 7 years old and perfectly healthy. however, when he was about 4 years old, he did indeed get a little overweight - nothing extreme, but my grandparents started noticing that he was getting out of breath quicker when running and started getting very tired. when they went to their vet to get advise for dietary changes, he simply said “yeah well most retrievers get a bit fatter. nothing to worry about.” they changed the vet and their baby boy is now much more energized, flexible and overall gets much less health complications, 3 years later. no dog is simply “meant to be fat” because of their breed, if it causes poor health. i hope the vet they first went to no longer does the job.
Well, for some breeds excess weight can cause damage faster than for anothers. 2 extra kilograms will not damage a labrador but it will be enormous for a galgo.
@Peegirl7722 allison is the prettiest woman alive
I have a deaf cat that I walk at the park every day for about 1hr and a half. Mostly because I can't let her outside on her own. Apart from vaccines and a tooth being pulled (she's white so teeth issues are more of a problen) she has NEVER needed the vet. She is fit and at 12 she can still run uo trees and chase other animals and I 💯 believe she will live longer and better because I feed her properly and keep her fit!!!!!
The first vet has a little of right only in the first part, yeah, retrievers tend to get easily more fat but that doesn’t mean is alright, this means that we should be more attentive to this breed, we should take more careful with their diet and their activity.
"I can't control my dogs genetics" gives the vibe of 'I did no research before getting my dog' and they have a high energy husky they cant/won't take care of. I'm not saying she's a bad owner bcbi don't know, but as an owner it's your job to research your dogs genetics to understand whats to be expected and weather a certain breed is good for you
right- you can't control your dog's genetics, but you absolutely can control which dog you buy or adopt.
I love how she says “it’s easier to blame the individual instead of the systemic issues for someone’s weight” 🤣 well it’s totally easier to blame the system rather than put the fork down and move more 😂
Right because what system is keeping you from eating proper portion sizes 😭
I mean, it’s kind of because of capitalism that we got fatter. 100 years ago we used to work in factories and farms and do more jobs that required physical labour, nowadays a lot of people work jobs that require much less physical labour and for many more hours, so they also have less time to cook for themselves and pre made food isn’t always the healthiest.
Then again there are still ways to keep yourself thin in these conditions, but there is a reason why people in certain countries keep getting fatter.
@@lidelbaldl how is it capitalism exactly? IMO forcing somebody to risk their health working 12 hour shifts in the mine for barely anything is more of an evil "capitalist" thing.
And I'm putting the c word in quotations because exploitation is in no way connected to the way economy is managed, you'd know that if you didn't sleep in history classes.
"Many more hours" ?!?!?!?!!? The 5 year olds from the victorian era would disagree
@@youraveragesinner5474 it’s because of how capitalism evolved and the Industrial Revolution.
Nowadays everything is automised, 100 years ago if you wanted to buy groceries you had to get them yourself and you’d probably have to stop at different shops, now you can order it from home and have another person bring your groceries home for you.
Also I never said that working on mines was a good thing, it’s just that the Industrial Revolution, and the boom of the fast food industry (which are all a result of how capitalism evolved in the last century) are probably what caused this obesity spike in various countries that we see now.
I am not saying that the Industrial Revolution was a bad thing altogether, but the easier accessibility of food with higher fat and sugar content that came with it is probably the reason why we are fatter. Then again, this is a discussion that mainly revolves around western countries probably since there are countries like Yemen which are currently undergoing a food crisis, but that is another whole can of worms.
@@lidelbaldl I agree with all this. Above all else though, overconsumption is a huge problem. When you eat more calories than you burn, you get fat that’s just how it is. American portion sizes are horrendous, our food is highly processed and addictive, and people live very sedentary lives. There’s only so much you can blame on the system before taking personal accountability too.
I worked a full time desk job, and I still managed to lose weight just by eating less calories and walking around the office and home more.
I never realized how fatphobic my parents were. They bought a fat dog that could barely walk and put him on a strict diet and exercise regime. (The previous owners would go on long vacations and rather than get a pet-sitter, they put the dog in the garage with a bunch of food.) That dog was the best dog to take hiking and horseback riding. That dog was definitely healthier and happier post-weight loss. Shame on my parents.
Performance dogs do have more sports-related injuries. Performance dogs do have more health problems (or are more often diagnosed with health problems because their owners take a very active interest in their dog's life and abilities). Performance dogs are usually purebred. Pure breeds usually have more health problems. Is performance a correlation or causation of health problems?
My hot take as someone who was a fat child and who now has dogs, you’re abusive if your children or pets become obese and you don’t do anything to work on it.
ETA: I have a dog that has a congenital hip condition who can’t exercise as hard as my other 2. She a food driven Beagle mix so it’s a Herculean task keeping her weight under control, but I still do it even though it would easier to pretend fat dogs are just so cUtE aNd ChOnKy 🙄
Yes! Yes! Funtie went light on this - she should have pushed harder on it being ABUSE, not just "judgemental"
I still liked the video, just think she held back here. Let them justify why making your child disabled is a good or neutral thing. Those "walking is a privilege of white supremacy" or whatever will agree - but I think (hope) most are not that deranged yet
The pure smugness is just. My blood pressure is rising.
Delusional. 🤯
Choosing to live outside reality doesn't excuse someone from the constraints of reality. These people are unbelievable.
They forget humans and animals are physical beings.
They delude themseleves in this post-modern reality thinking they are more enlightened than others.
They often talk about their own bodies as if it is a separate entity they have no control over, and that ultimately it doesn't matter
They think they can bend and change nature, that basic physical laws dont apply to them.
By the time they are in their 30s they have to accept that gravity is real and their knees are suffering from it
My cat kept stealing the kitten's food and got fat. It was embarrassing that I failed to keep him safe. He's fine now. Got him on diet kibble for a bit and he's back to normal. His reaction to it was hilarious though. When he tried it he had an expression straight out of the Scream.
the vet said my dog needed to lose two pounds to be at her ideal weight. she's my service dog, I need her to be healthy. so she got a little less food and no treats for awhile. it's not fat phobia. it's taking care of an animal that loves me and trusts me to take care of her.
Same. Our vet said ideal working weight is about 10% lower than ideal pet weight. So now I literally know the calorie value of every food, treat and supplement that we use. Why? Because even an extra year of working life is extremely valuable to us, and the last thing I want is for him to be prematurely disabled.
I thought this was going to be satire. I cannot believe we've come down to this in this country.
We had to put our chihuahua on a diet last year because she jumped off our bed and pulled a muscle and the vet told us off for her lack of waist. The week after I took her to get her claws clipped and mentioned she was a bit chonky and the groomer told me 99% of the chi's she sees are so fat they can barely even walk.... It is not fatphobic of me to judge those owners.... If anyone is wondering she's lost 0.5kg and is now perfectly healthy and able to more enjoy her walks and have snacks again. She's even starred in her first short on YT lol.
i checked out your shorts for her and she looks super well looked after!!! 🐕
@@girlysoap9031 aw thank you. She is super spoilt 🙈 currently cuddled up with my daughter wearing her new reindeer coat lol
Also- my parents have a dog named Freya, a black lab/rottie mix. She's very energetic, but got lyme disease and then some arthritis in her chest and front leg. Since they walked her less due to her pain, she gained 15lbs, which is a lot for a normally 65lb dog. My mother began feeding her less, and also swapped out half her kibble for home-made food, often a mix of beef, lamb, pumpkin, eggs, fish oil, etc. Lo and behold, Freya lost 10lbs over the next 3 months, the vet was impressed and astounded at how well it worked. Freya is more energetic, has a shinier coat, and it's easier for her to walk on her bad front leg since she's lighter.
Gaining weight is literally simple bio-thermodynamics: if we don't expend the energy we take in, it gets stored. If we use more than we intake, the storages deplete.
Simple-
So simple, even a dog can do it ;)
thats so good!!!! your mom did super well 😃
That’s it. Pet ownership should be licensed like driving and possessing firearms, globally.
My horse tends to gain weight really easily and he is the type who eats everything that possibly is edible. I became blind to his weight gain, sure I noticed that he was getting a little chubby so I just tried excercising him more, but he wasn’t really enjoying it like before, he wasn’t moving in the pasture like before either. One day a veterinarian came and really opened my eyes to his actual state of health. He was obese and at risk of metabolism and many many leg problems that are often a death sentence to an animal as big as a horse. I felt horrible, I had failed him. Since that day I put him on a strict diet (even tho it’s difficult due to horses digestive system and all) and kept excercising. Guess what, it worked and he found the joy in movement again. I will never let him go back to the state he was at and I will NEVER accept normalizing obesity in animals that are in our care. My horse is the type that gains weight easily but that should never be an excuse. We took the responsibility of the animals well being when we got them and we do owe them their health.
Hey, quick question if you're able to answer: I have an OTTB gelding who is prone to becoming ribby/noticeably "skinny" because of his breed, and I currently feed him quite a bit of rice bran and alfalfa pellets to keep his weight up. Aside from not enjoying exercise, what were some other signs of obesity that you noticed/had your vet talk about?
While I don't believe mine is obese, I don't want him to become overweight because he's not built for that physically.
@@breem2134I would learn how to Body Condition Score, just become familiar with how your horse looks healthy, so you’re more likely to notice them filling out. Also, your horse will likely limit their exercise, and might start lifting their hooves more or less often than normal.
Also, laminitis. Chronic/recurring laminitis is the big red flag that their balancing too much on too little.
An easy keeper . You be got to put them on less pasture or they’ll literally die. Obesity in horses is a death sentence
That whiteboard said, "No positive reinforcement training," which is a training method that centers on rewarding the dog (usually with food) for the correct behavior, thus reinforcing and developing that behavior. I think the wrecking ball thing was meant to be a prong collar, which represents the opposite training approach where you're using punishment to correct and deter unwanted behavior rather than trying to shape the desired behavior.
That's for sure it! Ima delete my comment now 💀 I thought it said no positive rewards for correction training. Same idea I guess but yours matches much better and I didn't even notice the prong collar
My retired service dog was overfeed by a family member. He died an early death. It hurt my soul to the core. I lost something some precious due to obesity. His heart gave out and I wasn’t around to stop it. I felt so guilty and still do. We have the responsibility to take care of those animals and it’s our part to make sure they have a good quality of life!!
I wanna ask this girl if she'd apply her logic to the other side of the weight spectrum. Like does she think it's wrong to judge a dog owner for their dog being underweight? Would she go on about how some dogs have genes that make it all but impossible to keep weight on, and how a dog being nothing but skin and bones does not necessarily mean it's unhealthy? Or would she, too, see fit to shame that dog owner under the (very reasonable) assumption that the owner isn't feeding their dog enough?
I feel like every comment has said the same already, but this is infuriating. Humans have a harder time with self regulation, especially with the abundance and availability of unhealthy food options. Portioning dog food is very easy and straightforward! The dog can't just go to the fridge to mindlessly graze like we can, or order fast food or make themselves some treats. When I see a fat dog I know it's the humans that did that to them and it's so upsetting.
THIS. I once had the displeasure of serving ice cream to a family who wanted to get some for their dog as well, but this was no ordinary dog and no ordinary family. The dog was a large mutt, probably should have been 70lb at a healthy weight, but looked like he weighed 120lbs. I kid you not, the poor thing was massive and could barely move.
We had "pupcups" on our menu which was a bit of plain ice cream in a cup with a milkbone in it. They saw this and then said OUT LOUD "will that be enough for him? We could get him a salted caramel cone instead"
I was horrified and tried to politely convince them that a pupcup would be *more* than enough.
Dogs don't understand the consequences of their diets. I will never forget the way that poor creature looked. Ignorance is not an excuse for abuse.
I love how she thought she was dropping some truth bombs lol. “Do you judge parents of fat toddlers?” YES lol, yes I do. “I’m here to dismantle your fat bias” How about you dismantle your own insecurities that are so strong you’ll let your pet suffer before you’ll admit that you’re wrong?
Mental gymnastics in this one is strong. Ugh! Healthy weight is needed for animals too. My huskies are supposed to be thin and they get exercise like I do. Not for looks but for health.
these people need to google weight scales for pets. Cats for example are supposed to be thin enough that they have a noticable waist and you can feel ribs and spine fairly easily. Doubt it's much different for dogs.
for pets it's so sad too. if a human is too fat to move much - they can play games, read books, craft things, watch movies, talk to people, keep themselves entertained. but a dog who can't run and play anymore? that's heartbreaking! if you do everything right and the dog gets sick or develops hip/spine issues or whatever - fine. it's tragic, but it couldn't be avoided. but feeding them into the same state even though they could be happy and healthy - that's abuse.
I can sum up her problem in two words: cognitive dissonance. She doesn't want to think that being fat is a problem for her, or something under her control. She wants to blame the dog's weight on genetics, but the idea that she can just feed it less and it will lose weight shows up the falsehood of her own beliefs about fatness. So she gets very angry about any suggestion that could be true, and unfortunately her dog pays the price for that.
Exactly! All I heard from her was me me me🙄those videos can be summarized as: “MY feelings are more important than my dog’s life so don’t comment on their weight; it hurts MY feelings😢&makes ME feel bad” good, she should feel bad, maybe then she’ll do something about it
As someone who has been overweight my whole life with a brother who has been obese his whole life, yes I fully blame my parents. They should have done a better job of incorporating a healthy diet year round instead of doing crash diets for a few weeks here and there. It is now my responsibility to figure out how to eat well, but it is their fault for setting me up for failure
Oh my god, i was in the same boat as you my whole childhood. My parents would overfeed us and didn't understand that their adult portions were not appropriate for small kids. But I want you to know that there is hope and things can get better!
Perfectly said. The fault lies with them for bad choices raising you, and the responsibility for caring for yourself now, lies with you. Balanced and true. :)
What a sadist I think they perversely like to watch their dog get fat as it is a reflection of themselves convince themselves their animals life is as “happy” as theirs is when fat. They like to see them struggle to move and get out of breath because they are just like them
"...Placing the blame on individuals..." yes, individuals who over feed their dog!!!!
Yes, Agility is considered a High Impact Sport. It's very harsh on the joints and general body of a dog, just like any other "extreme" sport. It does cause a lot of issues in a dog, but mostly because people do it without any knowlegde of aftercare or preparation. A proper warm-up, slow built-up, careful working and a proper cool.down, as well as constant check ups with a vet and physical therapist are CRUCIAL to this sport, just like any other high impact or extreme sport. Just like with horses or humans in competitive sport, too.
Just when I thought the nonsense couldn't get any deeper or any more ridiculous 🙄 I''m literally just exasperated by these people!!!!
I recently took my Great Dane to the vet and found out he had gained 20lbs in about 6 months. I was shocked because I keep track of what he eats (for both weight management and due to the fact he will eat anything, including his own poop), and immediately knew I had to figure out why. About 5 months ago, I bought a food container that came with a measuring cup that I thought was 1 cup. Turns out it was closer to a cup and a third, so he was basically getting 2 extra cups of food each day 😑
I put that measuring cup away and went back to his old one cup measuring cup and he's down about 5lbs now. A couple more months and he'll be back to his usual weight.
went to the vet the other day and my dog is a couple lbs overweight, so ya know what? imma nake sure shes a lot more active. she tends to gain over the summer due to the heat = less walks cuz shes a winter-type dog. so its activity time!
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This was the most insane thing I've ever seen. Of all the ridiculous things in that video, wtf did that woman keep saying, "we can have a conversation about pet health and pet weight, but we don't need to fat shame," none of the comments were shaming in any way. In her mind any comment about weight and health is shaming, so apparently we in fact cannot have a conversation about those things.
This has to be the most insanely asinine take on that god forsaken website. This is somehow worse than the "eating disorders automatically mean you're fatphobic" one. How far into delusion do you have to be to think this doesn't make you look genuinely insane.
Yes! People are losing their minds! I think most of these people need to take a LOOOONG social media break lol
@@Jama380 They are the definition of "terminally online" 😭
The transference is just incredible. They want so badly to have fatphobia become a thing that they attribute it to their animals. After all what could possibly at more credence to their argument other than 'don't hurt the doggies.' Of course in their ignorance (and need for therapy) they end up hurting and lowering the quality of life for their own animals. In effect echoing what they are perpetuating and living themselves. The irony is mind blowing.
It’s like vegans forcing their pets to eat vegan food. People can make their own food choices, but pets are forced to eat what we give them. It’s bad enough for dogs who are omnivores, but animals like cats are obligate carnivores and MUST eat meat. Ferrets will die quickly without meat on vegan food, I don’t get it. While it’s great to think of helping farm animals, why do they deny their own pets the health and joy of meat based foods? It’s not fair to them.
My MIL has two fat dogs. She sent a picture one time and we were wondering where she got mini pigs from. They are fat because she treats them like cats. She leaves their food out 24/7 and they will eat until they puke then eat some more. She says they're fine but they never get any exercise, they can't get onto anything even if it's low to the ground, they wheeze, it's very sad. Luckily she finally realized they aren't suppose to be like that and started feeding them at regular times through the day and letting them run outside. They're still chunky but they are a lot more like dogs now and not sausage rolls.
Edit: since there's an issue with the cat comment. A lot of cats are free fed (uncontrollable) because in GENERAL they do not over indulge. Some do. Example: my sisters monster of a cat who is on a timer. My understanding of dogs are they don't do as well with free feeding (uncontrollable) and need to have food measured (controlled free feeding) or be fed at specific times of the day. Some don't need to be. It was a generalized comment. To be clear I'm referring to dry food; not wet food.
Not the mini pig comment 😂 this is so so sad. Both dogs and cats are hunters, not grazers, and cats can get obese when free feeding too. My mom's dog free feeds but only because she gets a set amount each day and doesn't care to eat it at one time. When it's just a full bowl all the time you can't even tell how much they're really eating.
Not all cats have good control of eating either. It is good to give cats controlled meals rather than unlimited kibble. Better to give wet food, and you can't leave that out more than 4 hours.
@@TuningAnApple truth, we are a fully wet food family but I know not everyone can afford that. If my grey boy got unlimited kibble he'd be 2-3x his size.
I can leave the food bowl out for my dog but not my cat lmao. Exact opposite issue.
Ah, the perfect excuse not to walk your dogs!
When you’re so obsessed with your ideology, you apply it to literally everything smh
Ok, I'm gonna stop, but "owner disability" as an excuse for a fat dog nearly made me punch my monitor. You know who might have highly trained and valuable service dogs? Disabled people. You know who is often responsible for and reliant on the good health of service dogs? Disabled people. Do not use people with disabilities as shields defending poor pet care when disabled people frequently need to prioritize the health and well-being of their dogs to literally protect their own lives. Like, really, STFU.
Her words came back to bite her in the ass. According to her, disabled people and old people and different races according to her logic are just too incompetent to be able to take care of themselves let alone their own animals. her reasoning is literally the most disgusting, ableist, racist most incompetent thing I’ve ever heard lmao.
I'm disabled and prioritize my pet's health. She has a tendency to want to be lazy and over eat. I make sure she gets enough activity and eats the right amount. It's my job. It annoys me when fat acceptance use disability as an excuse for bad behavior.
I can’t believe she came for the Agility dogs! 😂
My husband and I compete in Agility with our corgis and poodles respectively. We’ve been in the sport for many years, with multiple championships under our belts and collars (respectively!). We very deliberately keep our dogs lean because of the running and jumping-and corgis especially are dogs that appreciate their grub! I suppose canine athletes are more susceptible to sports-type injuries in the same way that athletic people are more susceptible to such injuries, but yeah…if given the choice, I’ll take the athletic-person health risks over the obese-person health risks any day. (Note, to this point none of our dogs have actually suffered injuries in this sport past the odd scrape or bruise, perhaps muscle soreness after a long and active weekend.)
I have to mention also that I’m someone who has lost a lot of weight (about a hundred pounds) and has kept it off within a ten-pound range. Even at the height of my own weight, my dogs were *always* fit. I could control every bit of food they had access to. Unlike me, they couldn’t emotionally eat, drink alcohol, or binge.
Oh, and we do use treat-based, all positive reinforcement methods. You can feed a little bit less for your dog’s main meal if you’re using a particularly huge amount of treats for training, after all.
As someone from San Antonio Texas I can attest that yes most people are still obese. I use to weigh 250lbs downing my moms Mexican food, fast food, bbq,, tons of food here haha
I'm 130lbs now and feel 100x better, but yeah temptation all around San Antonio lmao
Yeah, from my experience, the only thing to do in San Antonio is eat. Restaurants absolutely everywhere!
@@funtietimes yup but nothing taste as good as feeling and looking good 😌
The whole mentality of blaming systematic problems as an excuse to deny personal responsibility is a pretty common one. People have a hard time understanding that sure just because a problem isn't your 'fault' doesn't mean it isn't still your responsibility to fix.
That toddler you saw long ago was most likely a lot younger than 3. Our bodies are pretty adept at trying not to be fat, especially in children. Excess calories are first put to the developing process. A mind boggling excess of calories was required to get a toddler that fat! A kid that’s just a little over fed will grow faster and go into puberty faster. That kid was fed enormous amounts of processed sweets.
Lol mines not. I’ve been in a calorie deficit of ~800 almost everyday for a year and haven’t lost anything 🙃
Not shaming the dog. Shaming the crap dog owner.
The main reason dogs are fat is because they were domesticated. Humans make dogs fat. The dog has no choice in what it eats. Dogs will overeat to please their human There are no bad dogs, just bad/uneducated humans. The only resource you need to know how much to feed your dog is the back of the dog food bag. If you do not train your dog with treats but with toys, your dog wants the toy not the treat.
Oh and we have two Bassets that are another breed so many owners allow to get superfat because it's "cute", they're bred to be chonky but they are not bred to be overweight, both my boys are actually quite slim it's just harder to see because they have a pretty thick layer of skin covering their ribs.
Lol dog fat-phobia wtf. My dog accidentally got fat over this last couple months. The snow fell and it got below zero. We stopped going for our walks and I failed to reduce his food intake. Holy crap one day I looked at him and he seemed like he got fat in two weeks. I now reduced his food and it will come off. But I AM ashamed I didn’t notice fast enough. I SHOULD feel ashamed and bad cause it’s my fault.
If yours is anything like mine, play will him in the snow. I have a lab, and he loves to play fetch, but hates bringing it back. So I throw him snowballs, and I enjoy watching him get so confused by it melting in his mouth, then happy again when I produce a new one to throw. To him, I'm a snow wizard to me, he's adorable. Perfect playtime.
Your dog is me 🤣
I remember when I was a kid, my mother had this childhood friend of hers who we'd visit from time to time. This friend used to have little dogs who were all obese. MORBIDLY obese. She had a dachshund who had more width than length to her and you could barely see her feet from under her body. She had chihuahuas that looked more like softballs than dogs. She'd feed them whatever she was eating, whether it was fried chicken, bread, you name it. All of her little dogs died from heart disease.
I'd honestly be surprised if we all didn't lose braincells listening to this one. Funtie is really taking one for the team wading through all this mind numbing FA content.
You ever listen to something so dumb you just feel like it somehow affected your GPA?
When it comes to the 'location' part of the whiteboard, I have a small amount of sympathy- it's for those people in city apartments, for instance, where walking the dog is more difficult.
I'm on the second floor of an apartment in a difficult-to-walk town with steep hills and crappy sidewalks, and sure, having a dog would be nice- but I recognize that I don't have the time, money, or environmental resources to make the pup happy and healthy. I notice that a lot of the reasons on the board are due to not having the correct emotional or physical resources- and if that's the case, it's the owner's responsibility to sacrifice a bit of their comfort to take care of the pet they DECIDED to get. Dogs especially are resource-drainers, but they're normalized as a companion animal, leading a lot of people who don't have the resources to get one. In that situation, the dog suffers. If you're disabled, get a smaller dog that can make do with playing fetch in the apartment, and feed it less food, for instance. There's a solution to each one of those whiteboard questions, but in reality, the biggest is 'don't get the dog if you can't take care of it properly.'
It's a hard pill to swallow, but it's the truth. And if you have the dog and then fall into a bad situation, it's your responsibility as the creature's caretaker to make sure it's healthy (or send it to foster for a bit, which is unpleasant, but a solution nonetheless). I'd feed my cats before myself- I can go and get a job and more money, they can't. Same thing for a dog.
Nothing makes me more raging than people acting like they are entitled to having a dog they can’t take care of. If you can’t take care of a dog, become a dog walker.
I live in an apartment. You can still walk and play with them. Or at least restrict food.
Surprisingly, some of the better apartment dogs are the larger breeds, not the smaller. Greyhounds for example are lazy little fuzzbundles. Other than the 40 seconds they sprint, they just lay there. Same with great danes and several other noble dogs. Little dogs have so much energy, that its hard to truly exercise them in an apartment, whereas big dogs are good with a couple walks or a romp in a field. But, please don't take that as me disagreeing with you. I applaud you being courageous enough to not get a dog until you're ready.
Based on that title, I'm screaming. I dare you to be involved in a pug coding because their owner overfed them and they overheated. Screw anyone who says that dog fatphobia is real. That's insane.
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The thing about dog breeders is definitely true. My little sister is afraid to let her dachshund go down the stairs without being carried, because of how it will affect the dogs back.
Also, the tiktoker said ‘see my point is been proved’ but she didn’t prove anything. She just said a bunch of stuff quickly and I was like it’s true, but there was no proof. It was just a bunch of weird opinions that seems to be mostly projections.
I really want to see this persons vet degree because wtf is this?
Also, I have volunteered at many animal shelters for the past few years, very rarely did I see an obese dog, most of them were emaciated bc they were abused
You can both over eat AND you can over exercise....it's about extremes. We were always taught moderation. Too much of anything is bad!!!
People who concern themselves with “dog fat phobia” are either upset because pet obesity an indictment of the level of care that they provide for their pet or because the mere mention of obesity is triggering to them due to them being fat, themselves. There is virtually nobody who is fit themselves, has a fit dog, and is concerned with the idea of a “dog fat phobia.”
I have pet pigs. One injured her ankle because she was overweight and affected the way her hooves grew in. Not even PIGS are "genetically supposed to be fat/overweight". (She's feeling much better and at a healthy weight now)
My dog was always freakishly skinny no matter what, because he's a Yorkie/poodle mix, and any kind of terrier breed needs high levels of exercise and mental stimulation. I always loved how he had these enormous bat ears and spider like long, tall legs. He was just such an intelligent, unique looking dog that looked neither Yorkie nor poodle.
I got him neutered a few years back, and I also got extremely sick so the walks went down in frequency. He's now obese and has arthritis and takes pain pills everyday. And even though he's 13 years old, he should still be more mobile.
Now that I'm healthier, I've been slowly incorporating exercise back in his routine, and he's slowly losing weight and getting his energy back again, but it's been a difficult journey. It's pretty hard to get an obese dog back to a healthy weight because of the damage weight does to their entire body.
I feel like a piece of shit dog owner, and I should have done better by him. But at least in my case, he's very healthy aside from his joints, and we have a great chance of getting him back to good health.
Just take my example and please please take care of your dogs. What was a lapse in health for three years for me was a massive percentage of my dog's life. Wish my old man dog and I luck though, we're back to daily walks and he's already a different, happier dude :)
I am an owner of two rescue dogs. One has a pretty good intuition about how much she needs (and stops eating when she's full) and the other one would like to keep eating until she is stuffed. Both have the same height but different body shapes (the first being a bit more muscular than the other one - so the one who eats less by herself should weigh more).
Body shape can make a huge difference with dogs, so especially with mutts you don't have an ideal weight number.
But there are ways to assess your dogs weight status anyway - by feeling. Can you feel their ribcage? (If you can _see_ it, I'd say the dog is too thin.) And if you touch them in the space between the ribcage and pelvis - is it firm or soft. And how thick is the soft layer.
As a dog owner, you are responsible for what the dog gets to eat - it usually has no chance to get food somewhere else without your knowledge.
(And I would argue that the same is true for babies and toddlers. The older the child gets the more chances and agency they develop to get food on their own. But in general, parents are responsible for the nutrition of their child.)
True but with mutts ribs showing could be from some random breed. I got my fur baby on 24/7 food. That good well balanced shit and small portions or wet food, treats, and dental treats. The little fuck just doesn’t want to eat. Hell eat until he just stops and goes “happy now”. But he’s got a lean build. Kind of like a boxer/greyhound but different head and color type.
Oh jeez. In that whiteboard drawing, the word bubble says, "No positive reinforcement training." I'm a pet care provider, so now, I'm gonna get mad. It's suggesting that the positive reinforcement approach to dog training is fully dependent on unlimited treats forever, which is only proof they have no clue what they're talking about.
Positive reinforcement when a desired behavior is rewarded. Negative reinforcement is when a negative stimulus is already present, and the desired behavior makes that stimulus stop. Negative reinforcement can be something like a muzzle leader--if they pull, it's not comfortable. Once they stop pulling (the desired behavior), the lead stops feeling uncomfortable (removal of negative stimulus). While there are ways to use both, positive reinforcement is almost always better and encouraged. Entire books are written on this, so I'll skip to the point: it's absolutely wrong to believe that the reward in positive reinforcement always = treats, or that limiting treats means being forced to use exclusively negative reinforcement. Treats are a great way to get the attention of an infinitely distractable puppy, or to introduce new skills, but no trainer suggests having your dog get hooked to training treats forever to the point of risking obesity. In fact, the most well-trained dogs (service dogs, police dogs, etc) are specifically selected for their preference for praise or play as their positive reward. A dog who is too food motivated often can't handle working in a busy city where temptations are all over the sidewalk. Most trainers suggest finding non-food rewards that your dog responds well to, so you can immediately communicate your approval without having to be a walking treat dispenser.
So, yeah, my soapbox rant is just that being reasonable with treats does NOT prevent someone from utilizing the most highly recommended forms of dog training, and I want to adopt their dogs if they think that is the case.
It is INFURIATING to me how they keep bringing up medcation or genetics that apparently prevent you (or dogs) from losing weight. Obviously there are factors that make it harder for someone to lose weight, like a slow metabolism or hypothyroidism. But no matter how slow your metabolism is you can't bend the law of physics. If you consume less energy than you spent you WILL lose weight. And if you have a slow metabolism you may need to eat a little less than someone else to lose weight, but they make it sound like that's impossible. The reason it infuriates me so much is because IF they were right, if there was a medication that prevents you from losing weight, no matter how little you eat, then we could literally solve world hunger and prevent every single death of starvation.
Hundred thousands of people are dying from starvation each year, and these so called "activists" tell me they are opressed because a clothing brand doesn't accomodate to them eating 4000+ calories everyday. It makes me so angry and sad and frustrated.
The worst was one lady in this video telling 'I can't be in control of my dogs health'. WTF, then who else can?! 🤬🤬🤬
In that case, DON'T get yourself a dog as a pet! Your dog deserves a better owner.
I was just fat shaming my cat for having a small fupa lmfao. She's not overweight but she does have a small sack of fat on her little tummy and I love making fun of her for it. I'll talk hella shit to her while grabbing it and shaking it as she lays blissfully ignorant on my bed. I love her lol and I'd never let her get overweight.
We lost our dog Patty in January. She had a weird respiratory thing that we never quite figured out, but she had to be on tons of prednisone at the end of her life and it made her sad and that one of her last of that visits before We has to let her go , she got on the scale and she gained like 10 pounds in a month because of the prednisone and I actually kind of cried to myself as I said “oh you’re a fatty Patty.” Clearly this dog was at the end of her life and seeing that she was getting that much weight so fast it was really upsetting to me and I did not mean to be… Whatever… But I couldn’t believe the tone that the vet tech took with me about that. “That’s lovely, thanks.”
I’m sorry, but we have to draw the line someplace, and I did not body shame my dead dog.
When my toy poodle was 8-9 pounds he could move the day after a walk, and we just thought he had joint issues. He didn’t even look fat because of his fluff. Now he’s down to 6 pounds and he can easily do long walks without pain. I can’t imagine purposefully having an overweight dog.
This is so upsetting to hear :(
My grandparents had multiple dogs over the years who all got extremely obese and then led to a variety of health problems like diabetes. My grandparents were completely at fault. They would top the dogs food with whatever they ate for dinner, and that included if they got fast food, which was frequent.
I didn't know that wasn't the norm as a kid until I became an adult and did my own research when I got a dog. I wonder how little people do research or fall into bad habits of "spoiling" their dogs with junk food or too many treats, etc.
Dog eugenics. Imagine this lady trying to make dogs a topic of fatphobia and accidentally coming across … dog eugenics
The other day I noticed that my dog was getting a little squishy so I've reduced his kibble from 1c 2x a day to 3/4c 2x a day. We run to the dog park often. It's really not hard to keep a dog trim.
Forreal, like your pets eat what you give them.
My dog gained 5 lbs a few years ago and my Vet had a fit.
My vet told me 5 lbs on their hips are like 20 lbs in a human.
I appreciate my Vets honesty. It saved my dogs hips as he got older.
I'm losing my mind with this one. I adopted my dog who at the time was about 40 pounds overweight. The vet said she was on the brink of heart attack. With a simple diet change she EASILY lost all the weight
The fact that this “argument” even exists makes me want to run off a cliff
Even on the off chance that your dog is overweight due to factors outside of your control rather than what it almost always is - over feeding - it is still your responsibility to help them lose that extra weight be it by medication, exercise, or a lower calorie diet. Because regardless of the reason they’re overweight the health effects are the same and when they catch up to your pet you’re going to feel devastated and possibly be out a lot of money.
I’ll give an actual tip if anyone needs it: you can add dog safe vegetables in with their food to increase the fiber and water volume they’re getting so they feel full on less calories. That’s an easy change that doesn’t cost the extra money for prescription dog food or more time to exercise the dog more and it can make a difference.
We do canned green beans! My aunts dog genuinely has a hard time keeping weight off so he eats very little and when he’s gained a bit back he gets a portion replaced by the green beans. You do feel bad for him tbo he seems hungry all the time. Better than how fat he was.
They say San Antonio is the fattest city, but I truly believe San Marcos, TX is the fattest city. I’ve lived all over San Antonio, but the short amount of time I was in San Marcos, it was 3x worse. The majority of the kids in my school were at LEAST obese, and many were morbidly obese. Each class I was in had only 1-2 thin kids, and that’s including myself. It’s insanity. Somewhat off topic, but my 1st period teacher would let us pull out our phones or just do whatever we wanted before class started. I remember ranting to my best friend about how different it was there and was rhetorically asking how can they sell all kinds of chips and soda that you can buy in between each period KNOWING that everybody was at least 190 pounds (it was my guess, and now that I look back, it seems accurate). It certainly wasn’t just talking 💩 about the people at my new school, but how weird this all was to me and I thought it was crazy that nobody cared about it. I also mentioned how I refused lunch since starting school, and that one of the ladies who would monitor the cafeteria brought it up to my parents because it was “concerning.” But I really just didn’t like what they had to offer there. I was at a healthy weight, so clearly, my parents weren’t neglecting me. And as it turns out, my math teacher was behind me the entire time and she said, “I hope you’re not talking about me.” I felt awkward, but not bad. I didn’t do anything wrong.
Literally 1:55 minutes in and my blood is boiling! thank you for bringing this up. What the heck these people are thinking?!
Keep this ''person'' away from dogs and any other animals.
my cat is severely underweight due to her being EXTREMELY picky about food (it drives my mom crazy, she goes on cat food runs every week where she buys an assortment of brands and flavors hoping that my cat will eat SOME of them, we even bought a high calorie supplement gel to mix into the food but she can smell it and refuses to eat even the food she loves if we mix the gel in) i wish the problem was people “shaming” her for being a little overweight. its so devastating to watch my best friend become just bones and fur and knowing we cant just force her to eat. i even get scared watching her jump or go up and down stairs because i dont want her to burn any more energy that she doesnt have. i wish i could take the excess calories stored in the fat cells of an overweight dog and put them on my baby, thatd be best case for everyone lol
I know it can get pretty expensive but I would recommend feeding raw. Some pet stores have them frozen in prepared containers, which I recommend unless you’re in contact with a pet nutritionist. I know it grosses some people out because it’s raw meat but it’ll help hydrate your cat and cats typically like it more.
Sometimes playing with your cat before they eat will encourage them to eat because triggering their prey drive then getting to eat is a very natural order for animals. I’m not too sure on this one though because your cat is underweight.
Well I just cussed at work lmao. I saw the notification pop up read the title and was like the fvck! Hahahaha
Yes different dogs have different body types. I was extremely worried about a skinny dog in my neighborhood until my sister told me it was simply a breed characteristic. However, you absolutely cannot argue that obesity is a breed characteristic. Feeding your dog until they are so big that they can’t even walk properly and failing to provide adequate exercise for them is abuse…
Not knowing that obesity in dogs is bad is proof of lack of research done before adopting an animal. And therefore that person should not be adopting a dog
The amount of mental gymnastics they're willing to go through is insane... I... don't have a dog in this fight. Pun intended!
Pets have access to way more food than they would ever have access to in the wild.
The 89 'Likes' on that person's Tik Tok video about this ridiculousness may be the most disturbing thing of all.
I often wonder how many of those are actually people who agree, or people liking it as a way to save it for a video like this or some other critique purpose. Especially those with less than 100 like or something
@@mkayybruh2878 Good point. Never thought of that. And lets hope that is the case and not another 89 fools lol
Same as others. Hardly ever comment but yes, this video is beyond infuriating. If these people want to suffocate their organs underneath pounds and pounds of fat, go for it. Leave the animals out of it.
Oh my goodness, I recently said I thought our cat was getting a little chunky. My daughter said “don’t body shame him!” 😂 I assured her he didn’t understand English and I didn’t think he understood shame about that🤣
loving the two days of uploads in a row! super infuriating video, love it hehe!
"I'm disabled and can't take my dog on regular walks"
option a- find a dog walker
option b- BALL??!!? BALL????!?!? THROW BALL!!!
Also, my dog is spoiled as f***. I give her eggs, cottage cheese, carrots, treats... But when I do, I reduce the amount of kibble I put in her bowl to balance everything out. She's not starving, but I'm also not overfeeding her.
Animals get scared and depressed if they get too fat to run and play and flee and protect themselves. Cats especially, I know “chonky cats” are a meme, but they are natural predators. Keeping them fit enough to jump around and hunt is vital for their emotional and physical well-being. A cat who feels like she can’t hunt is a cat that feels like she’s going to die.