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This Viewpoint proposes 2 steps for diagnosing clinical obesity in dogs and cats: describe, then diagnose. Step 1 describes adiposity as overweight or obesity. Step 2, applied only when obesity is documented, assigns a disease stage; clinical obesity requires a documented, clinically meaningful abnormality attributed to adiposity. The framework is proposed for consensus and validation. 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