Thanks guys. You'll have to put up with me whinging and whining about painting that hefty body the whole way through me painting it...haha.

I went down today with the disc and met my cousin there with his laptop so they could view them. My uncle David was working and, of course, he has to choose which photo to use so my cousin has left the laptop there and saved the pics onto it. I also left the disc just in case. I don't need it, lol.

I've tried telling my aunt Marg a feeding regime to put the dog on the other day. To cut out ALL people food because she gets fed too many scraps and human junk food etc...
She admitted on boxing day when I visited that the dog turns her nose up at the complete meal they bought for her so she puts a dish of fresh meat down then the dog eats the meat and then eats the meal. Sheesh!!!

I told her to stop trying to ply her with other stuff and just offer her a small meal of the complete stuff three times a day and leave it down for 5-10 minutes and then take it up if she hasn't eaten it by then and don't offer her anymore till next meal time. I also said she needed more exercise. 3 strolls around the block on lead walking at an elderly persons pace each day isn't enough for a jack russell. They need more than that. I suggested throwing a ball for her to run after but my aunt Marg says she will only chase it about twice and then stop. HAHA, I said "Are you surprised at her size, she can't physically do anymore?". I told her she needed to build the exercise up gradually. Take her on the playing field and let her off the lead instead of only taking her around the block on lead.

I've told them to ask their vet for advice about getting the dog to lose weight. My Aunt Marg says she has lost some but I bluntly said she didn't look like she'd lost any to me. In fact she looks bigger everytime I see her. My comment was comfirmed when my cousin found an older photo of her on his laptop and she almost looked like a different dog. She was overweight then but nothing compared to now. I asked him how old it was and he said he got it off his phone about a year ago.

If you notice, as I did when taking the photos, she has a fatty cyst down the side of her shoulder area not far above where her front leg joins onto the body. I don't normally see those in younger dogs but they are common in old ones. She also has a black mole growth type thing on the side of her muzzle. You can see it in the photo. Today I commented about how she keeps rubbing her muzzle on her paws and on the carpet and that something was irritating her and needed looking at.
I don't think they like going to the vets unless they REALLY have to. They convince themselves the dog is fine and doesn't need a vet. They also convince themselves that vets just give the dog anything and everything for the sake of it just to make money and that they are better equipped to make the dog better at home without a vets help.

Somebody asked if they were overweight themselves. My Uncle Ray isn't, he's always been on the slimmer side. My aunt Marg is a little but not really enough for you to view her as a fat person if you walked past her in the street. My uncle David isn't really either. I think he has a podge but certainly nothing major. Again, if you walked past him in the street, you wouldn't see a "Fat", person so to speak.

Phooooooooooo!!!!