Yup, top comments are indeed telling, I wonder how much longer are the public going to tolerate these pleading surgery stories? Everytime I see one I see some backlash in the comments over the lack of personal responsibility but the media keeps playing the 'pleading for humanity' angle on these 'human interest' stories.  Slow news day: "here's another big 'un...look at it, look how it has struggled its entire life, give it money, save it. Its shitty quality offspring has x,y or z condition, totally nothing to do with its obesity...it needs help, blah, blah, blah, it wants to see them grow up.... look humans, feel sorry for it... Let's REEE on its behalf."  The fat population buys into it though. It perpetuates the 'struggle,' and probably makes them feel not so bad about their own shitty fat bodies because they're likely not as fat as that one. Society seems to have empathy creep too. Suddenly pets are worth bankrupting yourself to save them. This modern day sympathetic participation trophy culture is getting tedious and increasingly far reaching.