I think there’s a pet obesity epidemic developing parallel to the human obesity epidemic.
Here’s what I find ironic about it.
We had a cat named Buff - we got him from a work acquaintance of my wife when he was about 1 year old.
We started calling him buff cat, or buddy cat within a few months of acquiring him.
Buff was not heavy by any stretch and was pretty healthy, but was always skinny. He had a lot of health issues later in life and we had to put him down last November when he was just about 19 years old. At that time he was about 7 pounds, probably 1/2 pound of that was a tumor in his gut (the poor guy).
It was hard to let him go - regardless of it being the right thing to do and it ending what was probably as much suffering as any other feeling he probably had. I could tell he wanted to stay with us on the one hand, but was relieved to not feel any more pain as well.
So a skinny cat named Buff in response to an article about a fat cat nicknamed buff cat and your response to the article about a feline obesity epidemic.