My Dog is Fat


 
Clint

Clint

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How Fat is she?

So fat that she hit 92 pounds yesterday!

I don't think she's fat at all................ but everyone else does! She's been eating about 2.5 cups of Iams Large Breed per day, and I don't give her too many scraps. I'm feeding her what a 50# dog should eat according to their recommendation.

She's only good for a little over a mile when jogging, but I took her out last night for a walk with a lot of sprints mixed in and she did a lot better with that...

This morning I only fed her one cup, planned on giving her another cup for dinner but she just got a slice of peach.

Any rec's on reducing her weight??? I'm sure another dog in the house would help, she sleeps an awful lot.
 
I had a fat-dog, I thinned him up by putting rice in with his food. That way he was filled up, but he didn't get a lot of calories
 
I think cutting down on the people food has helped my dog be not as fat. As she gets older it's harder to keep it off.
 
I remember when you got her, so I don't think she's that old. Have her thyroid checked, not an uncommon problem with dogs. Also there are weight maintenance dog foods out there that can help a lot.
Our 12 year old Golden is overweight due to me feeding her like she was a two year old, but with the right food and portion size (one cup am & pm) she is slowly losing weight. I substitute one half of a cup of cooked frozen green beans (Costco) in her evening meal instead of dog food. she loves the green beans and I use them as treats for both dogs. Very low cal and nutritional.
Hope that helps.
 
Try the Iams in the blue bag for weight control, but they make 2 blue bags, one for old dogs like 12, and one for weight control.
It works, and cut the treats back to one a day, or after awhile every other day.
 
I re-ran the #s (had a friend stand on the scale by himself & then again with her) & she's holding steady at 82..... (my mental math was wrong) she might've been 78# last I checked........ I know she was ~44# @ 8 months old when I got her (Jan 16 2014 or so). I think she's around 2.5 years old now.

I received a letter several months back that said she was due for some shots, .......maybe I'll ask the vet about it too - --- the last vet who called her fat I almost (not really) said look who's talking :)


who knows how accurate this is
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She gets all the old bacon grease & fat from whatever..... slices (small) of cheese :), pieces of fruit, .......not that much but it's going to be reduced soon for a little while at least.
 
Jim Lampe said:
Clint, what type of breed is your "vet said she's fat" dog?
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She's a mutt - I got her from the pound @ 8 months, & her paper said pit mix.

I heard about the DNA tests for dogs & had one done & it said she's a American Staffordshire Terrier, French Bulldog, & Manchester Terrier mix.

If you can't see the images above change browsers & hopefully you can see it. My photo posts are < reliable.
 
Brooke has been holding at around 78 lbs. for a long time now.
We feed her Kirkland (Costco) adult dog food.
A few years back we fed 2 cups a day two times a day, she got a little heavy, so we cut back to 1.5 cups two times a day and that slimmed her right up.

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Clint said:
She's a mutt - I got her from the pound @ 8 months, & her paper said pit mix.

I heard about the DNA tests for dogs & had one done & it said she's a American Staffordshire Terrier, French Bulldog, & Manchester Terrier mix.

If you can't see the images above change browsers & hopefully you can see it. My photo posts are < reliable.
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Clint, if YOU think your pooch is overweight, then maybe she is...
does it hamper her life?
does it bother you?
is it a big deal?

if no, life goes on, right?

my vet said Mad is a bit over weight.
and I said, Really? she weighs exactly what she weighed (give or take a pound either way) since the last THREE times we were here.
so, I said, we feed her GOOD food
yeah, she gets human table scraps...
but she is active, sleeps a lot (we're not home all the time) and she walks every day.

dogs life like us.
dogs die like us.
siht happens.
people get over weight.
dogs get over weight.


do you get what I mean...?
 
We try to watch our doxie's weight, because that is how doxie's are classified. Minis are 11 pounds or under and standards are 15 pounds or over. Levi s a "tweener" because he's 13 pounds. And Daisy is a mini, because she's right at 12 pounds.
Now,my late cat Lard A$$ was over weight! At one point, he was 23 pounds! He was down to 19 when he passed last year.
And Jim, that was beautiful!

Edit- I caught myself with bad math too! Daisy is only 11 pounds!
 
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Jim Lampe said:
Clint, if YOU think your pooch is overweight, then maybe she is...
does it hamper her life?
does it bother you?
is it a big deal?

if no, life goes on, right?

my vet said Mad is a bit over weight.
and I said, Really? she weighs exactly what she weighed (give or take a pound either way) since the last THREE times we were here.
so, I said, we feed her GOOD food
yeah, she gets human table scraps...
but she is active, sleeps a lot (we're not home all the time) and she walks every day.

dogs life like us.
dogs die like us.
siht happens.
people get over weight.
dogs get over weight.


do you get what I mean...?
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I got ya! My poor math skills just caught my attention! (thought she gained 10 quickly) Friends & neighbors talk a little trash sometimes...and none of it bothers me until she barrels into me. ----that's what got my attention: she bonked into my leg, then we weighed her, then my bad math took over.....

I think she looks like a big teddy bear, she's super cute. I'm going to try to get 10# off of her to hopefully improve her endurance (and pad health).
 
We have a two year old rescue and a twelve year old rescue who sleeps a lot, so guess what the two year old does when the twelve year old sleeps. She sleeps next to her, go figure.
Because I have bad wheels (feet) and I'm to old to run anymore we go to the dog park Monday thru Friday and the two year old runs her heart out with her fury friends for an hour and the twelve year old sits with us or cruises around visiting the people there. Weekends we walk the neighborhood.
That way both get the exercise they need and can handle.
We use the Kirkland weigh management for the older dog one cup am & pm and the younger eats Purina chicken and rice 1 1/2 cups am & pm, so far so good.
 
Clint, glad to see you taking care of your dog so well. It's better to nip it in the bud now as to let it go.
People & dogs don't just get overweight, it's because too many calories & too much good food in their lives.
We love our pets so we tend to over feed them as we do ourselves. Keep on taking good care of her & yourself and looking forward to seeing many more posts from you.
 
We had golden retrievers growing up. My mom ran a in home after school program so growing up we had from 5-10 kids at my house every school day. All the kids played with the dogs and all of our dogs were super active. We recused an over weight adult golden at one point and in 6 months the dog ran off close to 20 pounds! She was just never played with where ever she lived before!

With that being said we had one dog as she got older that started to put on a lot of weight. She was exercised and ate "diet" dog food and still gained and gained. After three visits with 3 different vets she was diagnosed with a thyroid issue. She had to have a pill every day but she stopped the weight gain and eventually lost a lot of weight.

I agree with the others if a dog gains a few pounds and dog is happy who cares but at the same time a lot of weight can do bad things. Especially big dogs. Hip problems etc. It sounds like you dog is in good care! Good luck.
 
So this is what my vet told me. If you run your head along the side just below the spine you should just feel the ribs. The recommended daily portion as stated on the bag is for that one dog that runs all the time and burns a ton of calories not for the average dog that eats it.
You may also try changing to a higher quality food than Iams. We fed our dogs Iams for years and they all lived to be 14-16 years old but when we got Scooter, our Aussie, I didn't think he had the energy he should so when he was about a year old we switched to a high protein diet, Acana, and it made a world of difference in him. It costs more but you feed them less and the stores I get it from give you a free bag every 12th one you buy.
Also cut out the treats unless they are low calorie.
 
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