I saw this article on cnn.com about "loving" your pet to an early death and one of the things that it says is that according to a study by Purina, 60% of pets in the US are overweight, but that over 1/2 of the owners of overweight pets say their pet has the ideal body condition.
I realize this is a group of people who are generally more educated than the average Joe about pet health, but I was just wondering how many of our pets are overweight?
If you're unsure, here's some visual guides for determining your cat's body condition (because as we know, there is no magic number for cat's BMI
):
http://www.peteducation.com/article....&articleid=660
http://www.purina.com/cats/health/BodyCondition.aspx
http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IA...rticleID=230#1
And for dogs:
http://www.peteducation.com/article....&articleid=661
http://www.purina.com/dogs/health/BodyCondition.aspx
http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IA...rticleID=230#2
Poll will have multiple options since many of us live in a multiple pet household.
I realize this is a group of people who are generally more educated than the average Joe about pet health, but I was just wondering how many of our pets are overweight?
If you're unsure, here's some visual guides for determining your cat's body condition (because as we know, there is no magic number for cat's BMI
http://www.peteducation.com/article....&articleid=660
http://www.purina.com/cats/health/BodyCondition.aspx
http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IA...rticleID=230#1
And for dogs:
http://www.peteducation.com/article....&articleid=661
http://www.purina.com/dogs/health/BodyCondition.aspx
http://us.iams.com/iams/en_US/jsp/IA...rticleID=230#2
Poll will have multiple options since many of us live in a multiple pet household.