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More On Obese Pets

Saturday we began a discussion of fat dogs and I mentioned a dog, Bear, who is a “self-regulator.” Such dogs are unusual, as most dogs for whom too much food is put out will eat to a point of gluttony. Self-regulators, on the other hand, eat just enough to stay healthy and then stop. Our [...]

Theme Of The Day: Fat Dogs

The theme for today? Fat dogs.  Again. It’s not even 9 AM yet and I’ve already seen two. We found Jasmine to be overweight at her visit last year and set a goal weight of twenty pounds. She weighed in at 30.7# today. Jasmine’s weight difficulty stems from a common husbandry practice I call “smorgasbord [...]