My dog is getting fat!

[pati-o 6]

Weird post... I know.

My dog of 10 years is an old girl, so needless to say, she doesn't move around as much as she used to. But now, I've made it even worse for her, she's getting fat! She gets so many table scraps because I always take too much food and can't eat it all.

My mother brainwashed me! She told me not to waste food and that there were starving children in China and now instead of throwing it away, my poor dog is feasting on scraps and becoming as big around as she is tall!! Poor girl has become rather.... well lets just say that she doesn't smell as good as she used to!

Anyone else had a puppy dog that has been over indulged??

[Madeline's mom 0]

Pati-o,

I have a pug and he is really putting on weight. I have been giving him the weight control Iams but he just eats too much of it! I have been told to 1 - 1/2 cups of dry weight control food ONCE daily and that is supposed to aid weight loss. My vet also instructed me to walk him daily.

[j.s. 0]

I dont have fat dogs but I do have fat cats. My youngest is about 11 months old and she is just a little pork belly. She is as wide as she is tall. I feel bad for her. I am trying to control her food better and exercise her more but she is, after all, a cat and sleeps most the day. We have 2 cats so when she is done eating her food, she goes to the other cats food and eats that as well.

j.s.