I don't know about you, but just going on a diet makes me hungry.
I crave foods I have not eaten or wanted in years. Just the preparation process takes a good week. First I have to remove (and by remove, I mean eat) all of the non-diet foods in the house. Then I have to mentally think about what I should be eating, making a list, actually driving to the grocery store.
So imagine a cat, man's on-again-off-again best friend, making his preparations to begin a diet (or better yet, not even knowing the diet has been forced upon him) with his priceless reaction. That is what LittleThings gives us, by sharing a hysterical video of a cat in diet mode (Spoiler alert: cats are not fans of dieting), with their video "What I'm like on a diet."
In nature, food acquisition has never been a sure thing for any creature -- not for canines, felines or humans. So food acquisition has always been accompanied by physical exertion to capture and consume the food.
It is only in recent times that the unnatural situation of food excess, readily acquired and consumed with little accompanying physical exertion, has become a way of life. We humans have figured how not to have to do all that work of capturing and cultivating to build up stores of food, according to Pet MD.
We also relish in the comfort foods, the eating as a reward for a job well done (think banquets, anniversary, birthdays, anything with a celebration, involves food). Cats rarely celebrate their mundane lives, sleeping 12 to 16 hours a day minimum, and the rest of the time spent ignoring their humans.
A 2011 study by APOP (Association for Pet Obesity Prevention) found that over 50 percent of cats were either obese or overweight. So the mighty hunters of yesteryear, our beloved felines, are getting tubby, like the rest of us.
Enjoy the video.
