Exactly, and that can be kind of difficult to control at times - most animals are not actually at a perfect weight, and neither are humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessika
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Exactly, and that can be kind of difficult to control at times - most animals are not actually at a perfect weight, and neither are humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessika
I can kinda-sorta agree with Cali,severely overweight dogs is a huge pet peeve of mine. If there is absolutely no medical reason for the dog to be obese than it really shouldn't...IMO...
My Shadow is overweight, a bit, but she is not obese. She could stand to lose a few pounds, and keeping all that weight on her is not healthy for her joints or general health at all. BUT another peeve of mine is dogs that are too skinny....like my Kyra. She does not eat well or consitantly and I absolutely hate it but there isn't much we can do. And Micki, he has arthritis really bad and has bad elbows, if there is very much extra weight on him it would make him even more uncomfortable so I have been trying to slim him down a bit. Jack is perfect to me, you can just feel his ribs if you take your hands down his sides but his backbone or any other bones aren't protruding or anything.
I picked both yes and no.
Unfortunately, Frisk is overweight. No matter how much I beg my mother and father, they insist that table scraps "won't hurt him". We're working with him, though. We've changed to a better dog food and walk him at least five times a week. We see improvement! :D
Ethan isn't the kind to gain weight easily, so he's not overweight. Actually, when we adopted him, he was still slightly underweight, but he's fixed that. Also, Ethan isn't the kind of dog that can eat and eat like Frisk can. If he eats just a little too much, we get to clean it up off the floor when he can't hold it down.
t.j was under weight for awhile and zoey is just perfect.
Well i have not purposely made my cats overweight, as I said before i do not overfeed them, they are just that way inclined IMO, maybe i could reduce their intake some, but like people they are all different and come in all shapes and sizes, gosh Cali if you feel that way about pets, how do you feel about overweight people then?
I don't really consider any of mine to be overweight. Charlie has gotten a bit stocky, but not to the point of being overweight. The others aren't at all even close to being overweight.
As for the kitties, Raisin is a big girl, but that is just her body type, she'll never be skinny, she's a maine coon mix. Justin calls her "fatty boombalatty". Jimmy is a big cat too, but not at all overweight. The others are all quite lean.
no, batman is actually underwieght
i think peopl are a bit different from dogs in that regard; because you would have to conciously feed a dog (or not put him/her on a diet) in order for him to be obese. a.k.a. the dog can't really do anything about it, and its obviously not realistic to expect a dog to refuse food in order to lose wieght. so i guess what i'm saying is that severely overwieght animals (excluding ones with health issues where it cant be prevented) are the result of irresponisble owners. my friend has a golden retriever who is morbidly obese, but still they continue to feed him steaks adn scraps from teh table adn just think its funny that hes that fat.Quote:
Originally Posted by carole
Cagney is overweight, I am most certainly NOT a irresponsible Pet parent, so that's not true at all. It isn't always just a simple, you feed too much your dog gets obese. Cagney is older, he doesn't like too much activity. Sometimes he will randomley stop eating so he needs to get table scraps. He's getting the same amount of food as he did when he was young, he just doesn't want to exercise much now. We can't cut down on his food because as it is he hardly eats any of it. And as carole said, they all come in different shapes and sizes.Quote:
Originally Posted by G.P.girl
There's a difference between an overweight pet and an obese pet. and like i said before, i was only talking about pets that didnt have any kind of health problem that would affect thier weight (getting older, artheritis, cant move well, and other more serious problems)
overwieght pets just drive me nuts, when it comes to animals I am a HUGE fitness freak, probably because I am invloved in so many dog sports, I am completly obbessive about keeping my pets trim, I honestly check every single day and if they are even an ounce overweight they are on a diet, and I make no exeptions to other peoples pets that enter my house, and I aint quiet about it when I see fat dogs in RL, I am always checking my friends pets too and raise a stink if they get overweight lol
Wlel how do you know just by meeting random dogs in Real Life whether their obesity has to do with overeating or if they have a medical problem? Otherwise its pretty rude to say something if you don't know the reason WHY they are overweight to begin with.
That's a bit odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
If you see a overweight pet in RL how do you know if it doesn't have a health promblem? Going on a diet because they are an ounce overweight isn't very healthy.
That's what I'm wondering :eek:Quote:
gosh Cali if you feel that way about pets, how do you feel about overweight people then?
First of all, it's rude for you to sa that you wouldn't let a "fat" dog to set foot in your house but to go around in RL lecturing people about their obese dogs is awful! If someone did that to me about Cagney I'd be really upset!
Like i said before, Batman is is actually underweight, right now (he's just got over major illness/surgery) bu the's getting back on track to his right weight. I like dogs alittle bit chubby, well not chubby, more like sturdy and muscular rather than skinny
oh no if it is caused by a health problem I fully understand! but again I come from a sport dog background and I am very competive, I dont do it strictly for fun, I want to WIN, its just one of the things I am obbessive about, my dogs are not underweight, they are kept in sporting condition, I am slightly more leniant for dogs that are strictly pets, but I am obbessive about keeping dogs trim and muscular, I take my girls out to the bike path regularly and use the circles in the path to condition them, I ride super fast around the rings and have the girls run along side me(they are not leashed for this lol) they love it, it builds muscle, it tires them out, and it makes them faster. when my friends dogs stay with me or I am dog sitting them I give them a more apporiate amount of food, and walk them 3 times a day, plus take them for runs. I do nothing unhealthy the amount of food they receive is in direct relation to how much exersize they recieve. I would never ever feed a dog the same amount no mater how much exersize they get, that is exactly why so many dogs are overweight, you have to adjust it, not or how much exersize they are going to get but for much much they already had, if a dog did not get much much exerise you dont feed them as much as you would after a 4 hour run, that is how you keep weight in check. I dont lecture anyone about their dogs weight till I know more about them and their dogs, I lecture when people refuse to admit that their dog is fat or if they know their dogs is fat and really dont care.
as for fat people? I could not care less about people do it does not bother me a whole lot lol
**for informoretion my dogs are NOT strictly pets and never have been, Ripley is our one and only dog thtat we adopted as a pet, the rest were chosen specificly to be athletes, while we wont make the dogs do anything they dont enjoy , we did not get the dogs as pets then decide to try some sports for fun, we were already involved in dog sports and chose dogs based on this, the ONLY reason I got Misty was because Happy had retired from flyball and I needed a new flyball dog, I would never get ride of a dog for not being a good athlete, and my dogs are every bit as loved as dogs that are strictly pets, but you must remeber that this is the dog world that I grew up in, my mom has been invloved in dog sports since she was a teenager, I was raised in the world of canine athletes, and this is where my perspective comes from.