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Back to EpisodesWords Matter: Don’t Just Tell Someone Their Pet is “Fat”!
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
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#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.