Extra weight on a dog creeps up so slowly that most owners don’t notice until the vet points it out, and in America an overweight dog has started to look normal.
Veterinarian Eileen Fatcheric, DVM sat down with Whole Dog Journal’s Kate O’Connor to explain how to tell if your dog is overweight and what to actually do about it.
What she covers:
- What a body condition score is, and why a 5 out of 9 is the goal
- How to check your dog at home without a scale
- Why extra weight feeds the joint-pain and arthritis cycle
- A simple way to cut calories without starving your dog
- Why treats count, plus a trick for multi-person households
- How fast is safe to take the weight off, and how to ease into exercise
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