Pet Obesity: are You Contributing to Your Pet?s Shortened Life?

There is an obesity problem that exists today not only in many of our children, as well as many adults, but also in our pets. As many families see their pet as a member of the family and ‘spoil’ them accordingly, research shows that this is actually hurting them in many cases. Pet obesity, just like obesity in humans causes higher risk of diseases as well as shortened lives. Some of the problems causes by our own over-pampered pooches include: severe respiratory, cardiac, metabolic and orthopedic , which are all severely worsened by obesity. So, why is this happening? I feed them the right food, right? In many cases, the obesity is simply caused by those little things people tend to do out of habit, not really taking in what

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