Very fat animals

[bonj2]

a friend just sent me these links:

they really need to lose some goddamn weight.

 

[Globalti]

Nos 1 and 4 are photoshopped.

 

[Wigsie]

Nos 1 and 4 are photoshopped.

Definately, possibly No 3 too, but number 2 is just a fat arsed mutt and the owners should be done for animal cruelty!

 

[Aperitif]

...plenty of fat dogs where I live...

 

[swee'pea99]

Nos 1 and 4 are photoshopped.

How can you tell? Please understand, I'm absolutely not disputing what you say - I'm just curious. Are there tell-tail (sorry!) signs?

 

[Chrisz]

[quote name='swee'pea99']How can you tell? Please understand, I'm absolutely not disputing what you say - I'm just curious. Are there tell-tail (sorry!) signs?[/quote]

Yes - they don't have matching fat faces

 

[Globalti]

It's a gut feeling as much as the visual cues. The texture of the fur looks wrong, it's too uniform. The fat is too rounded - i.e. not sagging, the faces (as mentioned above) are not fat and the postures of the animals are wrong. Pictures 2 and 3 on the other hand are exactly the right posture for a grossly overweight animal and in fact there's a cat just like that in Clitheroe market, which lies in exactly the same way!

 

[bonj2]

I wonder if there are any animals that have got so fat their legs don't reach the floor? Dog no. 1 is heading that way.

 

[Jim_Noir]

I don't get how cats get fat, I would have thought their very nature would have them out burning it off. Dogs on the other hand I can see how it happens.

Uncle Mort, is this your dog?

 

[dan_bo]

I don't get how cats get fat, I would have thought their very nature would have them out burning it off. Dogs on the other hand I can see how it happens.

Uncle Mort, is this your dog?

Fork me!

 

[Crackle]

I don't get how cats get fat, I would have thought their very nature would have them out burning it off. Dogs on the other hand I can see how it happens.

Uncle Mort, is this your dog?

Is that Greyhound on drugs d'yer think?

 

[Jim_Noir]

It's a whippet on 'roids!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-467985/Meet-Incredible-Hulk-Hounds.html

 

[Dayvo]

Wouldn't want to get into a field with this, either!

 

[Arch]

I don't get how cats get fat, I would have thought their very nature would have them out burning it off. Dogs on the other hand I can see how it happens.

I think any animal, including cats (and humans) is capable of simply gorging themselves and being lazy - especially domesticates whose instincts have been dulled somewhat, and who have food on tap. Indeed, the one instinct remaining in some is probably to eat whatever is offered, in case there is famine tomorrow. In any population, there will those who are active and fit, and those who are lazy - it's just that in the wild the lazy ones would die.

We have a skeleton in our reference collection from a cat that died of vitamin A poisoning. Its owner, a little old lady, found that it liked liver, so indulged it with liver every day. The cat must have lapped it up, despite the fact that it was been slowly killed. Excess vitamin A over a long period leads to excessive bone formation around joints, fusing them, and eventually the whole cat just seized up. Now, it can't have known why it was getting stiff, although I think many animals do have an innate ability to self medicate if they can, but it happily ate a completely unnatural diet, rather than ever turn up it's nose at the liver....

 

[Lisa21]

I don't get how cats get fat, I would have thought their very nature would have them out burning it off. Dogs on the other hand I can see how it happens.

Uncle Mort, is this your dog?

Fookin Ell
Hopefully those fat pics are photoshopped but if they are not the owners should be done for extreme cruelty.Mind you, pic number one is what im gonna look like if im not carefull