How to determine whether the dog is overly obese

Dogs, like people, can be overweight and cause serious diseases such as diabetes, joint problems, infectious diseases, skin diseases, and even some cancers. The following points can determine whether the dog is too fat, dog owners need to apply pressure on the dog to lose weight.

1. Feel with your hands

If the normal weight of the dog, touch his body with his hands, from the chest to the back of the thighs on both sides, you can feel the distribution of one by one rib; but if the dog is too fat, touch down, it is difficult to feel the rib distribution of the interval sense, as if the fingers pressed on the quilt, soft, feel the same as not touching the bones.

2. Look with your eyes

From the top of the dog's back to looking down, if the dog is obese, his back looks like a square flat piece of table, because of too much fat accumulation on both sides of the rib cage, so caused by the flat upper back, this is the appearance to determine whether the dog is too fat some of the keys.

3. With a feeling

And "lazy" and "panting" in addition, the dog is overly obese, but also in his life behavior, will become lazy, not want to move, or move to pant, an uncomfortable look ... ..., this time, the dog may need to lose weight.

If your dog is constantly blessed, it may be worth trying the following weight loss tips. Simply put, the most important key to weight loss is to pay attention to the amount of intake and consumption. You can make the consumption and intake to achieve a balance or even intake less than consumption, you can achieve the purpose of weight loss.

1、Weight loss feed

Reduce calorie intake human weight loss method, is to reduce the diet, or eat only vegetables and fruits, but this suppressed weight loss method, can not be implemented in the dog, because for dogs. Although people can control their eating habits through willpower, dogs can not reduce the amount of food to achieve the purpose of weight loss; if you can not follow the normal amount of food, the dog will produce hunger, and he can not suppress the hunger by themselves, the desire to eat will become stronger and stronger, forcing him to constantly search around, looking for any food that can be eaten, nothing will be spared, the result is worse!

Therefore, the most important thing when dogs lose weight is not to change the food portions but can be fed a diet prescription. The size of the pellets of the diet feed is not much different from the general feed, but the fiber in these feeds has increased, making the dog feel full but not as high in calories, so by feeding the diet formula, you can maintain the amount of food your dog eats, but reduce his calories to achieve the purpose of making your dog lose weight.　　In addition, do not feel sorry for him, and therefore do not give too many snacks and treats, resulting in calorie absorption instead of reducing the situation.

2、Exercise

Increase calorie consumption For your dog to lose weight successfully, we should increase his calorie consumption and give him regular exercise time every day to achieve the effect of making him lose weight. For small dogs, in a stable physical condition, there should be one 20-minute slow walk every morning and one 20-minute walk every evening; for large dogs, there should be two 30-40-minute regular walks every day to improve calorie consumption and increase physical strength through exercise.

3、From environment to psychology

To keep your dog from gaining weight, in addition to proper diet and regular exercise, you should also pay attention to your dog's environment and psychological factors, so that although you strictly implement the diet plan, he still finds a way to take advantage of the opportunity to eat and be completely uncontrolled! If you have more than 2 or 3 dogs, when feeding them, you must carefully distinguish whether the food is eaten by the same dog or shared by all of them. If you have two or three dogs at the same time, one dog must be stronger and take the role of "leader", this dog is likely to bully other dogs, grab food, and eat more, when you are not paying attention, he ate twice or even three times the amount of food! So when feeding, pay attention to the presence of a similar "food bully".

4、Fixed feeding

Let the dog not have to eat the fear! If the feeding is not fixed, the dog will be able to eat, will eat desperately, often want to eat a little more, and then eat a little more desire to prevent the fear of not having the next meal; so when you feed, you should make a habit of feeding him regularly, so that he does not feel panic, as long as there is a sense of psychological security, know that they can rest assured that there is a natural next meal when the time comes, do not need to eat for no meal And fear, he will not be in a hurry to eat too much at a time. In addition to regular feeding, so that the dog can rest assured when the dog is psychologically instability or emotionally instability, will often appear "overeating" situation, so usually in the care of the dog, we should pay more attention to his external situation and reaction.