My bulldog was skinny shamed. I'very been seeing a lot of posts about fat owners abusing their pets by making them fat as well. Every time I see a post like that it brings up not so pleasant memories of when my boxer bulldog was going through his awkward growing phase and I was accused of animal abuse. Pretty much my boxer bulldog was skinny shamed. The boxer breed is pretty much the opposite of rare so I assumed that most people know what a healthy boxer looks like. Apparently fat pets have become the new normal just like their owners and people have forgotten what an actual healthy dog looks like.  Like several other breeds out there the ribs on a boxer are supposed to be visible as is muscle definition. It's actually part of the breed description. If the ribs aren't showing congratulations you have a fat dog. The ribs particularly stand out during that awkward (I call it the gangly) phase of around 7 months up to about a year and a half old. We were taking dog training classes and so would go into a local store a minimum of once a week. Not a week went by when some butterhuffer didn't come up to either my husband or myself and accuse us of not feeding our dog enough. I even had one try to get hostile and she wouldn't back down until our dog trainer intervened by telling her that our dog was actually the ideal size for his breed.  Keep in mind he had been going to the vet this entire time for all of the puppy vaccines, etc... and every time he weighed in the vet was very happy with his weight.  So to all of you posting all of the depressing photos of dogs so fat they can barely move yep, apparently this is also the new norm and obviously a 400 pound she beast can tell just from looking at my dog that he is being starved. This is depressing. Oh and now that he is two years old and has actually filled out  (not fattened up) I get questions from random strangers asking what supplements I have him on because he is so ripped and cut. None. He just eats a measured reasonable portion of high quality dog food (no corn) and plays/runs hard. (I always see the fats buying their dogs the cheapest and worst garbage that is being passed off as dog food, basically McDonald's for dogs.) Yeah, apparently he went from starving to death to me shoving doggie steroids down his throat. I would post a photo of him but I am too afraid of being identified because he goes out a lot but please understand he is not ripped, buff, cut, jacked, etc... he just is a healthy weight, his ribs are visible, and he has good muscle definition. I can't make this shit up.