Knowing Your Triggers XI

 

I wonder if people who post reels of their fat cats and roly-poly raccoons on Instagram are trying to draw fire from scolds who scroll through sites looking for targets to shame about their lazy pet care.

Some postings get thousands of comments from people exclaiming "put him on a diet, you hateful thing!"

Maybe it's actually a giant web of co-dependency. Folks overfeed their pets, then parade them around, make them jump (or attempt to jump) from floor to bed or to retrieve something from the kitchen counter. They record every "hilarious" second of this misery for posting and wait for the trolls to attack, which they do -- eagerly and swiftly.

Everybody gets their jollies in this internet wreck of enabling behavior, except Garfield and Rocky, whose lives are being cut short by their owners' vanity -- and pasta.