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.