Fat, lazing around pets. The tragedy of pets living in small apartments with busy working humans? A result of over feeding or treating? Perhaps we were guilty of both.
Feeding a pet plenty of food is not kindness to a cat/dog. Check out Paying the Price of a Fat Pet and also Health Risks in Overweight/Obese Dogs to be in the know.
So I wrote that our dog had been consistently gaining weight towards the end of a recent post, until we took steps to cut back on fatty canned food, take her out to more exercise (which our fat dog had no stamina for really…) and get our fat dog on her feet more often at home. Ok, technically she was just overweight, not obese, but she did look like a huge lazy lump pictured above right?
If Donna has a voice: “Oy, who you calling fat!”
Anyway, Donna finally has curves…the right ones. You know, not that curving bulge in her tummy or around her ribs and rump.
If Donna has a voice: “Oy, stop calling me fat! I am warning you.”
Actually you know she doesn’t care. Donna’s true voice:
Gimme food. Food good. I eat more food at the shelter than here. I can even eat all the good stuff in Buddy’s (her cellmate) food and leave him with the leftovers. That old man dog is nice to me, not like you.
You can of course appreciate why Buddy got skinnier as the fat dog got fatter eating two shares of food. Poor buddy. Now where was I?
Oh yes, as I was saying, this not so little girl has some curves going in the right direction now, woohoo~
You can view the bigger chart here, via Fat dog to skinny dog: How we did it.
The last we weighed, Donna was around 15.4-15.6kg. For this weight, the vet had advise that she was still over weight but Donna can stay around this range if she does not gain any more weight. Given the vet’s feedback, Donna is perhaps at 6 according to the chart. Abdominal tuck apparent, discernible waist but my untrained eyes can’t really see her ribs. Heh. :P
Finishing up this post with the continued objectification of my dog to further explore the topic of “Curves” in the weekly photo challenge. :P
The curves of her black and tan coat and her dew claw.
The curves of her short hair as they work their way around the curves of her legs. I particularly like this last one of her legs.
completelydisappear
Ha … I love your approach for this week’s photo challenge.
weliveinaflat
Thanks :) All in fun ;P
Jo
Wit Wooooo very sexy curvy doggy :-D
weliveinaflat
All the better to cavort with! :D
yashikibuta
LOL! Not fat, as my partner would say about our overweight chihuahua. Just undeveloped tissues that forgot to become muscles. :)
All my babies HATE exercise.
weliveinaflat
I guess its not so obvious for small fluffy chihuahuas :P Or, as I said, I have untrained eyes :P We didn’t even know Donna is overweight until the vet mentioned it! Muahahaha, fail. What do they do when Angel, Chaos and gang refuse to walk? Donna just sits and refuses to go… and the last time I tried to take her “hiking” (and its really just a long walk in the bigger park), she flopped on her side and refused to budge in the middle of the underpass!! – – omg. Stamina is still a work in progress!
Have a great day ;)
yashikibuta
hahahaha! OMG, that must’ve been hard to get mad at Donna coz that would’ve been so cute! Chaos and Ice won’t show that don’t like to walk, you’ll just see it in their face. but Angel and the 2 girls would jump up at us and BEG to be carried. good thing they’re small dogs though. they get enough exercise running and chasing after each other in the backyard.
weliveinaflat
Hmmm… quoting a Chinese phrase, it’s a situation where you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry… but that’s an easy decision for the passer-by fellow who bellowed with laughter at this t-shirt-and-shorts girl on one end of the leash trying to positively cajole a fat dog lying flat on the floor to get on its feet. And when said dog refused, tired girl tried pulling the dog anyway thinking that will spur the dog to jump up and continue BUT she ended up dragging the flat dog a few centimetres across the floor instead! And I have too say, the fat dog had plenty of rest before that since the lazy humans took the time to have a leisurely breakfast at a cafe in the park!
It was cute… but it was also not cute. Muahahaha, go figure.
Angel and Chaos now, they own cute! And they are lucky to have the company and their own backyard to romp in. *envious* Hope you guys are having a great day today! : )
yashikibuta
You have to admit, from the point of view of those who doesn’t have to carry lazy, fat dog, that was hysterically cute.
And yes, we did have a great day, thank you for asking. Hope you did too.
weliveinaflat
Yes I do agree :P I would have made it into a post except that, I was obviously too busy to take pictures, hah! :D
bluebeadpublications
My dog rocks some curves as well.
weliveinaflat
Awesome! We’ll love to see those curves :) Our’s still overweight although she is not as fat as before. We have some catching up to do! Have a great day!
Sonel
Awww..she is totally sexy and yes, I agree, overweight furry kids tend to develop problems as they age and Donna is so lucky to have you to care for her so much. She is an absolute model. Lovely photo’s and captions and an excellent entry for the challenge too! Love it! :D *big hugs to you and sexy Donna*
weliveinaflat
Thank you, you may be please she had a bath last night so you are hugging a very clean, sexy dog ;P
Sonel
Hmmm..and she smells so heavenly! I love it when I’ve given Simba a bath and he is so soft and clean. He likes it too. *more hugs for you and Donna* :D
Linda Arthur Tejera
Great information and photos. I have 2 dogs and 5 cats ranging from thin to fat. It’s difficult to monitor everyone’s diet!
weliveinaflat
Thanks for your kind words Linda! :) I know I would have hard time monitoring multiple animals’ diet too if I had multiple animals! Thank goodness being dog idiots, we only have one! :P Phew! I think the people at runamuckranch feed their dogs separately and perhaps that helps? I wouldn’t know since I only have one, muahahaha. But you do the good work you’re doing and you’d get better along the way. ;) Here’s to healthier, happier cats and dogs :)
lensandpensbysally
Nice variety and well done and amusing too.
weliveinaflat
Yay! Amusing is good! Thank you for your kind words Sally : )
rubytheblacklabrador
Well done on keeping Donna trim and slim. As you know from reading Ruby’s blog it’s not just lazy dogs which get fat. It’s also non-discerning dogs who eat-everything-they-can-get-their-paws-on-and-more. She gets huge amount of exercise but needs it to balance the huge non-sanctioned food intake. Please tell Donna that Ruby has a lovely waist and slight rib visibility but a massive, wobbly bottom!
weliveinaflat
Woo – It sounds like dogs are like humans in that the fat deposits can appear in different parts of the body for different dogs :O Bottoms up Ruby!! To you lovely waist, slight rib visibility and massive wobbly bottom! May you get lovelier everyday… although I think you will also please you human very much if you breath gets lovelier. Work on it! :D I worry about Donna’s breath every time I see her licking her behind – – is it that attractive to lick there? :P
Jana Rade
Whohoo! Curves rule!
weliveinaflat
They do!! Thanks for dropping by Jana :)