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.
