Who Wants To Know Today If You're Dog Is Over Weight?

Dogs today that are suffering from obesity are living shorter lives, plus they become very lazy and inactive. Learn secrets today to avoid the mistakes that many dog owners make by over feeding their dogs.

The buzz words today on almost everybody's lips is weight loss or obesity, with more than 24% of Americans are reported to be overweight this is a growing concern for the health authorities, however we hear about this almost every day on the news but we very rarely hear about over weight in our dogs.

After much research I found that a minimum of 25% of dogs in the United Kingdom suffer from obesity, world wide probably more, and this is why experts say we have a growing health issues with our animals.

The question is what are the consequences for feeding our dogs too much food?

The primary explanation we should not be giving our dogs too much food is it can, and does create the foundation for a shorter life span and is responsible many terminal infections, for instance; diabetes, arthritis, heart problems, and what's more this takes away the dogs energy and does not help his peace of mind.

If you can reflect to the reasons why you made a decision to get a dog primarily, it was probably to have a new friend that you can enjoy walks together in the park.

By giving dogs too much food this takes away a dogs energy and leads to a miserable dog in bad heath. We as humans are fully aware that this is not constructive in our lives so it stands to reason it will not work for our dogs.

Another consideration is the cost, not only are we throwing away dollars buy buying too much food for our dogs but paying out loads of money in vet bills.

A good example of healthy people are those who eat the right foods and prepare them with a little thought for themselves and there loved ones, so the point is we should give the same consideration to our pets?

Many dog owners are now realizing that it is a very important issue to what we feed our dogs, instead of just settling for what is on the supermarket shelves why not make your own dog food; there are numerous benefits to the facts it will not contain skin, bones, carcases, sugar, and fat, which numerous mass produced animal foods do which in turn can only create over weight dogs.

And what's more mass produced dog meals in numerous instances are meant to have a nice taste in order for our dogs to like it and will require more, and this can have a knock on affect to eating too much, we are very diligent to know how many calories we require for ourselves so we need to do more of the same for our dogs.

Let's consider the negative side, it is fact there is more time and dedication to preparing your own dog food, however the good points out weigh the bad by far. For a start the overweight problem would disappear, two the vet bills, three your dog will enjoy better health, and four you will get back to enjoying those walks in the park and the great times you had together before he or she became inactive and over weight.

At length you can be in charge of the food that your dog consumes, and this can only be a positive towards the best health for your dog.

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