Quote Originally Posted by G.P.girl
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.
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.