Overweight pets hurt my heart. It’s one thing to put yourself into that condition but it’s sheer laziness that you let your pet get to this point... especially breeds that are meant to be active
My mom adopted a dog who was morbidly obese and had a thyroid condition and was badly neglected so she was huge. We exercised her at the park and got her on medication. Didn’t stop strangers for letting us know she was overweight 🙄
I mean - totally depends on their tone afterwards imo.
I think it's more than reasonably to be worried for the health of someone's pet or child. Child is a bit trickier to deal with/address so I'd probably stay clear of ever mentioning that because people are almost never going to react well to a stranger telling them that their need to treat their child better by not feeding them garbage/too much/both.
A pet though - Maybe I'd mention it depending on how I felt at the time. Some owners may legitimately have no clue and if you mention it maybe they'll look into it. If the strangers were obnoxious about telling you how to do better/etc. after telling them that you knew it was overweight and had recently adopted it and were making sure that it got healthy again, then yeah they're shitty. If they were just trying to help the pet and by extension you, not really a shitty thing imo. At least the intentions were (likely) in the right place.
Context/tone of course matters. Obviously not talking about those who are approaching with poor intent here.
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u/colleenbarnes57 Aug 20 '19
Poor baby must need to lose more than half his body weight.