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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, about the FAQ.

He’s just a huge fat cat. He diets, he works out, but never really loses any weight. We’re not too worried about it. His actual licensed vet says he’s fine, so we’ll just listen to her because she went to cat medical school or whatever.

How is this possible? That cat is way beyond the "healthy at any size" range.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People lying on the internet again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm certainly not a veterinarian and I'm quite prepared to be proven wrong, but yeah your explanation seems much more likely

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

"he's fine for now" truncated to "he's fine" and then HE DIES AT 7 YEARS OLD