People want their pets to be more healthy and live longer, this is a hate crime according to r/MaintenancePhase

The top comment there is so r-slurred. Why do I even look at Reddit ever? It's a person pretending to be a vet while their entire post history is about being an old lesbian in Portland who's into herbology. And even if they are a vet and, in that case, an affirmative action graduate followed by an affirmative action hire, what they say is shit that a 5 year old would know is false.

>however a lot of us act like fat dogs or cats will get get more of EVERY disease. This isn't true. We don't know this. We have so little research on animals compared to humans.

It's just, you know, like 90% of diseases, but not feline AIDS so BOOM straw man destroyed!

>cats do get type 2 diabetes, but similar to people it is not a guarantee if a cat is fat enough they'll have it. There are definitely other factors.

Again, it's just a 90% chance that an obese cat gets diabetes, but the other 10% of the time... BOOM!

>Example: when we talk "heart disease" in dogs and cats, we're talking about genetic things like mitral valve disease or HCM. There's only one potentially diet related heart disease, DCM, and that is caused by lack of taurine (and or grain free diet), other than dogs who get it genetically.

Hereditary genetic defects aren't caused by obesity and a bad diet so another straw man bites the dust. And DCM being related to a taurine deficiency and not obesity means that heart disease in the sense of atherosclerosis must also not be related to obesity!

>it seems more ok to be fatphobic about animals because they don't know we're being buttholes. Yet there are humans in the room.

The fat humans should also feel like shit. That's a side bonus of diagnosing the cats.

>it's also not helpful. Many cats and dogs struggle to lose weight with calorie restriction, regardless of how they got there. Some folks are feeding their pets way under what is "supposed to" work yet no results. There are just lower metabolisms (without hypothyroid) and this seems to be much more common for pets with chronic disease or inflammation of some sort.

Many cats and dogs do not follow thermodynamics, chud. And why, as a vet, wouldn't you treat the hypothyroidism then, you fricking idiot?

>to expand on that, many of my coworkers advocate substantial restriction to start which is just not realistic. + some other bullshit

This last paragraph was too long and I didn't read it, but your coworkers (at Starbucks) are right and you're wrong.