Help! My dog is obese!

[blas]

There are such things as large cats. Animals are just like people, some are big and some are small. Baby and FatCat are both small framed cats (except FatCat really is fat). Baby is literally the size of like a 9 month old kitten.

Our old tomcat we had growing up was not fat, but was a really long, really large framed cat.

[Metody]

I bet the neighbors feed him. In cat-friendly areas, there are almost always people who leave food out for the neighborhood cats.

Agreed. We had a cat that kept getting fatter and fatter, despite being a fairly active outdoor indoor cat. We couldn't figure it out until one of the neighbors made a connection between Smokey's love of his daughter, and the sudden lack of cheese and lunchmeat in his house....

[Kyree]

That poor dog If he was in shape, and just a huge dog, even if he was tired, I'm sure he could have walked that 150 feet to the car. So he had to have been over weight. Or had some sort of health problems, which...those people should have let the poor guy stay at home.

I have a cat who's 9, and she's been fat for a few years. I've tried to feed her less/better food, but nothing's happened. I've tried to exercise her, but she doesn't like to play =/ Vet and I can't think of much to do, because I'm not gonna starve the poor cat, so she gets to be a fat happy cat.

[Evil Queen]

Can we take the little fat doggie away from these people and let it come home with me? I'll play with it. <3

[Bradester]

Can we take the little fat doggie away from these people and let it come home with me? I'll play with it. <3

AwwWWw, but I wanna take him home!!

[edible_hat]

Your being sarcastic there right?

They aren't holding people hostage and force feeding them after all

No but they do and always have targeted their advertising towards children. Get 'em hooked young and they're yours for life. If I was driving a car right now, the GPS would direct me to Fratching.

[Mamadrae]

No but they do and always have targeted their advertising towards children. Get 'em hooked young and they're yours for life. If I was driving a car right now, the GPS would direct me to Fratching.

Maybe I'm confused. I thought it was the parent's job to teach their children how to eat. Not the media's.

[Evil Queen]

AwwWWw, but I wanna take him home!!

No, he's mine! I claimed him first!

[Gabrielle Proctor]

My cat weighs 28 lbs himself...it's insane.

Can I snuggle your cat? I know it's awful, but I think fat cats are the best kind! I had a fat siamese who lived to be 15. I would just pick him up and give him a little squeeze. He would let out this squeak that was so cute! He made the same sound when you picked him up. I loved that cat.

My rottie is currently overweight a little, but she's nowhere near obese. Before she had to have surgery, she was a perfect weight for her breed. I took her to an outlet mall once to walk her around. It was pathetic on her end. She walked one aisle and down another before she had to rest. I decided it was best not to push her, so we went home.

I'm glad I didn't have to carry her, though I am good at bribery. One mention of a cookie as a reward and she wasn't so tired anymore.

[Evil Queen]

Fat cats are the best. I remember my Little Fat Pita Cat would squeak when I squeezed her. Mean, yes, but she didn't protest.

[blas]

I love when FatCat rolls onto her side and starts pawing at the air. It means she wants her belly rubbed. When you rub her belly she starts purring really loud and twitches her one leg. She tries (keyword being *tries*) to roll over, but is too fat...eventually she does roll over......it's adorable.

And in the winter when I'm taking a nap on Friday mornings, she's so warm and snuggly....

[Evil Queen]

Pillow-like, isn't she? <3

[depechemodefan]

I can just imagine, they had a blanket in the car, and could roll the dog on it and carry him that way, but they didn't want to get dog hair on it.

My dad was an animal trainer. He trained monkeys. And dogs, though the monkeys did tricks and the dogs knew how to heel, stay, etc. He never had a fat dog.

But one thing, why do people walk their dogs like at 6:30 pm, when the sun won't go down for another 2 hours? It's still hot outside and the poor doggies are walking on concrete, which is really hot.

[tropicsgoddess]

If the dog is obese the owner should....

• consult a vet on making an exercise regimen for the dog
  
• no longer give the dog table scraps of any kind and not allow anybody else to give the dog any.

Simple. It is cruel for the dog to be overweight just as it is to have the dog be underweight since both jeopardize the dog's health and cause health problems. The sad thing is that some owners don't realize that the love they give the dog with constantly feeding him/her people food so much is killing their dog.

[Buglady]

I have a cat who's 9, and she's been fat for a few years. I've tried to feed her less/better food, but nothing's happened. I've tried to exercise her, but she doesn't like to play =/ Vet and I can't think of much to do, because I'm not gonna starve the poor cat, so she gets to be a fat happy cat.

I have one of those too. I call her my Molasses Gooshycat. She's 13, has always been a big cat and one who vaccuums all food that comes in range. I have put her on all kinds of diet foods, and she just got grumpy and tired and dull-furred, and didn't get thinner. So now I feed her a very high quality, grain free kibble, at specific times, and she is happy and has energy again. She just... waddles. But she is truly a different cat on the good food that has enough fatty acids in it.

I don't take her hiking, that's all! (I do fake her out at suppertime to make her go up the stairs a couple extra times, though).