chrisjpainter Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 I get owners love them, but surely something would have told them this wasn't right. He's had to shed the weight of a big labrador! Obese Cheshire dog gets new home and sheds five stone - BBC News And with new owner, the vet who adopted him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 While working in Musselburgh some years ago two of us lodged in a local B&B. We got there late evening so had already eaten, but at breakfast were served a ‘full Scottish’ piled so high on the plate that neither of us could finish it. Before we left for work we saw him emptying our plates into a dog bowl, over which hovered the biggest Golden Retriever I’d ever seen. Absolutely obese so! Over the next two days we stayed there it transpired the dog was only three! 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgsontour Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 A lot of wobbling black labs around me, seems fat is the new slim I bumped into a well heeled woman getting out of a new jag 4x4 not so long ago with a huge fat black lab, we passed morning pleasantries and she added 'he is on a diet' I swiftly replied so is mine! The glare I was given would have won an award if I could have photographed it and the silence was magical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 RSPCA prosecutes young lads for having skinny dogs or clipping a dog round the ear, but not old grannies for feeding their dogs to death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Abuse pure and simple, but if we cannot stop idiots doing it to their kids then we have no hope of solving it regarding dogs. Local chap has 2 chocolate brown labs that are as wide as they are long, see them occasionally plodding around the same path in the village (that is surrounded by fields) with nothing but pure boredom in their eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 hours ago, bruno22rf said: Abuse pure and simple, but if we cannot stop idiots doing it to their kids then we have no hope of solving it regarding dogs. Local chap has 2 chocolate brown labs that are as wide as they are long, see them occasionally plodding around the same path in the village (that is surrounded by fields) with nothing but pure boredom in their eyes. Seeing fat children makes me so sad 😔 Working in Liverpool you see so many young lives that are blighted by their dead beat parents before they have even got started, for all sorts of reasons but fatness seems so easily avoidable. 30 years ago when i was at school you would get one fat child per class. Now it is over half. We were swimming at Northgate in Chester recently and I felt so bad for some of the children. In the showers afterwards I noticed that my little sons looked like miniature prize fighters. We do not do anything special but we just don’t do stupid things. The boys eat chocolate etc and are not denied anything but they are not given copious junk. People feed their children chips etc or chicken nuggets rather than proper food. Gorging on highly processed empty calories. With the dogs mine are fed their kibble and kitchen scraps (egg shells etc). They work hard and if they get heavy I reduce their kibble. I feed each of them different amounts depending upon where they are compared to their ideal ‘fighting’ weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbird Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 Wow that is one fit dog! Walkedup, you really should give me a shout when you’re in the area and pop in for a cuppa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob85 Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 14/01/2022 at 07:58, WalkedUp said: Seeing fat children makes me so sad 😔 Working in Liverpool you see so many young lives that are blighted by their dead beat parents before they have even got started, for all sorts of reasons but fatness seems so easily avoidable. 30 years ago when i was at school you would get one fat child per class. Now it is over half. We were swimming at Northgate in Chester recently and I felt so bad for some of the children. In the showers afterwards I noticed that my little sons looked like miniature prize fighters. We do not do anything special but we just don’t do stupid things. The boys eat chocolate etc and are not denied anything but they are not given copious junk. People feed their children chips etc or chicken nuggets rather than proper food. Gorging on highly processed empty calories. With the dogs mine are fed their kibble and kitchen scraps (egg shells etc). They work hard and if they get heavy I reduce their kibble. I feed each of them different amounts depending upon where they are compared to their ideal ‘fighting’ weight. What a stunner, this is the shape of Lab that should be shown at crufts and not the fat roly-poly Labradors! Your dog would be considered an athlete in comparison to most and even a dog with just a little extra on the bones would be acceptable, I just don't see how its too hard for people to understand feeding... the bags of kibble even give instructions on feeding recommendations and so long as you are educated enough to read then the dog should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 On 15/01/2022 at 12:02, Rob85 said: What a stunner, this is the shape of Lab that should be shown at crufts and not the fat roly-poly Labradors! Your dog would be considered an athlete in comparison to most and even a dog with just a little extra on the bones would be acceptable, I just don't see how its too hard for people to understand feeding... the bags of kibble even give instructions on feeding recommendations and so long as you are educated enough to read then the dog should be fine. That's not a lab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob85 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 16 minutes ago, Lloyd90 said: That's not a lab I caught myself on that its possibly a vizla 🤡 I just had to rush off out before I could correct myself haha, but the sentiments stand I suppose. Its certainly in the supermodel category of dogs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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