Would you consider your pet overweight?

[Chilli]

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!
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.

[Flatcoatluver]

t.j was under weight for awhile and zoey is just perfect.

[carole]

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?

[BitsyNaceyDog]

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.

[G.P.girl]

gosh Cali if you feel that way about pets, how do you feel about overweight people then?

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.

[CagneyDog]

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.

[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)

[cali]

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

[Jessika]

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.

[CagneyDog]

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

That's a bit odd.

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.

gosh Cali if you feel that way about pets, how do you feel about overweight people then?

That's what I'm wondering

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!