Jillian Wilson is the Wellness Reporter at HuffPost. She started her career at Visit Philadelphia, where she wrote about things to do and see in the Philadelphia region. Since then, she has covered lifestyle beats like wellness, fitness, health, tourism and food, all with a strong service journalism angle. She is a graduate of Temple University.
Limiting treats, reducing food intake and making sure your dog is eating the proper amount of food for them are all ways to help your pup lose weight.an extra treat or some tasty food scraps is tempting, and something nearly everyone has done from time to time. Who can resist their pup’s big eyes or the pure joy that comes as they eat some leftover chicken?
, the section chief of nutrition at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in New York. You can look at this chart online, or ask your vet for your pup’s score at their next appointment. “The biggest risk of obesity, or maybe the most concerning one to pet owners, is that having an animal that’s overweight or obese actually does shorten their lifespan,” Krebs added.
“If you look on the side of a typical dog food bag, it says things like ‘between 2 and 5 cups for a 70-pound dog,’ — that’s a huge difference, right? Where do you choose between that 2 and 5 cups?” Wakshlag said.Pet food companies have to provide guidelines for every dog, whether they’re a hunting dog who is running around every day or is a couch potato dog, he said.
Krebs said many pet owners worry their dog will be hungry if they’re put on a diet, but Krebs said the nice thing with veterinary weight loss diets is the food is formulated so you feed the dog approximately the same amount of food, it’s just less calorie-dense. “A spoonful of peanut butter has a lot more calories and a lot more significance to a dog than it does to a human,” Krebs said. “And so even one extra treat or some extra table scraps adds a lot of calories to a dog’s diet.”“We say that treats can make up approximately 10% of a dog’s daily caloric intake, so it’s not that they can’t have any treats, it’s just when we get to an excessive amount of treats that we start to think about maybe we should cut back a little bit,” Krebs said.
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