'Didn't his vet literally just tell you to put him on a diet?' Cat-sitter calls out her sister for overfeeding her already-chonky cat, the sister immediately has a meltdown, saying that putting a cat on a diet is cruelty

Chonky cats. A subject of much debate on the internet. Because the internet, sometimes, has a difficult time with nuance. Some chonky cats are adorable and are not, in fact, too chonky. Some cats are simply a little larger than others, and we do our best to keep their weight from getting worse, but that is just what they are, and we are not going to love them any less because of it. Heck, the more cat, the more cat there is to love in situations like that. But, a cat's weight is still something that you have to keep an eye on. 

Some cats don't know how to regulate their food intake the way that they perhaps should. And so, it is up to us - to measure their food, to give it to them in intervals, to listen to our vet's guidance. And yes, there is indeed such a thing as overfeeding your cats. The sitter in this story was right to call her sister our for it. Now, it's just a matter of making her listen. 

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