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annie

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Right took my cocker to the vets on friday for his yearly MOT and booster jabs, obviously they weigh them now and horrifyingly my cocker has gained almost 4kg! Now when we got him a year ago he was overweight, been loved to death since 12 weeks then ignored and not walked, overfed with crap by previous owner etc, lack of excercise had turned him a tad tubby. Now i walk the fat little munter 60-80 miles a week, varied excercise etc, feed him twice a day dried complete food mix. he gets NO doggy chocs or treats apart from carrot and apple, i keep him off the beer as its not good for him:D, yet he's managed to gain almost 4KG:eek: Some of it is apparently muscle weight, but he is to be fair an utter fat git. My other 2 get same diet, same excercise and same everything, springer bitch is underweight and springer male is spot on just under. I now have to take the fat cocker to what basically is slimmers world for dogs for next few months. I am not an idiot and hubby is tight yorkshireman so no way am i being conned into buying fat free food at £50 a sack, how else can i get his weight down, please don't say anymore excercise as he may be putting it on but i am dissaperaing with all this walking and the like i simply cannot excercise him anymore than i do, there isn't enough hours in the day:confused:. Can i possibly put him on a lighter diet and add say chopped raw carrots and apples to his food to bulk it out? Or shall i just club him to death like a fat seal and make a coat out of his fat arse? Really NOT looking forward to some vet nurse telling me to feed him les and walk him more i may hurt her, but i need to do something to get some of his weight off
 
i may want to J but my hips DON'T want to.... my head says Yeah that looks fabulous my knackered little body says 'yeah right in your dreams you shouldn't have decided skateboarding and snowboarding were so cool in your 20's and shagged your hip and back.......... Mr Annie says he may give it a bash after he does his triathalon later this year, i can always get him to take the fat barsteward out on his training runs with him, but he's just not a running about dog, springers go mad and run about everywhere, the fat lad just bimbles about at his own merry pace like a little drill sgt
 
Annie, move home, buy a farm house on top of a hill, buy a nice tennis ball and get the dog to have it as a favourite toy (Hide the other toys lol) then keep sending the ball down the hill at a great rate of knots.

Either you will have the slimmest fittest dog in your area or the dog will look at you when you throw the ball and think to itself "You must be Joking, i am not going down there again" lol
 
just changed him onto 18% protein food, left others on working dog food which does have a higher protein but fat lad obviously isn't WORKING enough fat chubby get, and phecta one of their 3 walks is round pit tops and its a rudy huge hill that i take ball chucker with me and throw his ball up it for 45 mins, trust me the fat get really does get well excercised, and where a ball is in the eqaution he runs a lot! Vet says 15kg is ideal weight hes almost 19KG. he has had his pods removed if that makes any difference
 
i may clip him that may shed a few pounds off him, he is quite hairy, treadmill may make it look like i am getting him ready for fighting, granted he couldnt fight his way out of a wet paper bag unless there was food involved
 
cheeky bugger i will have you know i am writing a cook book for my daughters school.... and now your not getting one :)
 
Ollie my collie ahs to watch his weight, got snipped and then wammy, it piled on.

Walks every day, agility 3 times a week as well. And yet the weight just stayed on. Had reduced his food so much that he was depressed just by looking at the miniscule amount.

Was not sure what to do next when he developed a muscle strain and had 10 sessions of hydrotherapy.

Thats helped a fair bit, 5 mins of swimming is equal to 3 mile run for dogs. By the end of his sessions he was up to 15 mins swimming.

He's lost a bit, he's on 1 - 1 1/2 cups of food a day (the others are on 2 cups a day) and we just keep the exercise going.

Think he'll always be a bit prone to weight but the hydrothereapy was what seemed to kick start the bit of weight loss he's had
 
i walk by a river that he likes to swim in i could always just poke him back in with a stick until hes done say 20 minutes that may help :) but its right next to the police horse and dog house they may get a tad funny about me poking him with sticks
 
if you are a member of NASDU (i know im becomming an advert) you are able to get a very good discount on royal canin direct i have been told its cheeper than wholesale!! i pay around £34 per large bag posted to you house i think they do a light food
 
well fat cocker had a weigh in at vets last friday and is officially a right fat git!.......19kg...should be about 15kg. So now at fat class (weight watchers for pooches) we are aiming for 17kg at the minute but allegedly given his excercise regime we are looking for shape NOT weight, and the FAT vets nurse seems to think ROUND is NOT a shape! Going to shave off 3kg this evening so we can see what shape he actually is under the winter fluff and see what we have to deal with. Moved him to 3 small meals a day instead of 2, bulked out with carrotts and apples..... he isn't thrilled to be honest....... next weigh in 6 weeks
 
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