Is your pet over weight

[Catherine]

Quote:Dogs can easily fall into the 'couch potato' trap, if that's what their humans are! And I think a lot of it has to do with humans working all hours of the day, coming home exhausted, and sometimes a quick 'potty trip' twice a day is all the dog gets in the way of exercise. Sometimes they are walked only until they do their business, and then brought back!

Sometimes that is all the exercise the owners get as well.
Every study out there is saying that it is bad for us as well.
We need to fix our pets lives if we are going to fix our own. You are right, their obesity matches our own. Really active people are out there with their pets getting exercise. Couch potatoes have couch potatoes as pets.

We need to eat better, so human food needs to be improved. We also need pet food to be improved. Part of the problem is lack of exercise and too much food. Also part of the problem is the food itself. Pet food is too high calorie, too high in fat and there is probably too much sugar/starch. There are good quality foods out there now, but many people spend as little time considering their pet's food as they do their own food.

If you really read the packaging of some human or pet foods, you wouldn't buy them.

If we fix our problems we will fix our pet's problems and if we fix our pets problem we will fix our own.

A wolf-like dog must go stir crazy for lack of exercise.