Words Matter: Don’t Just Tell Someone Their Pet is “Fat”!

from Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!) · host Tracie Hotchner

#931B: Dr. Ernie Ward’s own non-profit — the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) discusses the importance of using non-shaming vocabulary when speaking about overweight pets; and that veterinarians unconsciously have a bias (as do doctors in human medicine) towards patients that “have obesity” — which is a clinical condition requiring medical intervention.

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