dobedream

People need to listen to their vets, I think.
I get a lot of comments on how slim Roxy is, but when I mentioned her weight to the vet, she said that she is ideal...as long as she has lots of energy and a good appetite.
She said that she wouldn't "complain" if she gained one or two pounds, but an overweight dog is at greater risk for bad health. This risk is greater than the benefit of having "insurance fat" for sickness.
Half the dogs I see at the dog park are overweight. And that's just the dogs that are getting exercised. If your dog looks like a barrel on legs, its fat. It bothers me too.

Sam1491

That's a hard statement to put stock in, my last boss was great at making sure dogs were a true optimal weight....the vet of the lab in my previous post see's no problem with his slightly to heavy and definitely to heavy for his two fake knees weight.

When it comes to proper diets and weight vets can be on both ends of the knowledge spectrum on actually knowing anything I've noticed.

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dobedream

"When it comes to proper diets and weight vets can be on both ends of the knowledge spectrum on actually knowing anything I've noticed."

Indeed, vets can be all over the place when it comes to knowing anything at all about Doberman health, I digress.
I should have said, people need to find reliable medical support for any conclusions they come to about their dog's health.

RedFawnRising

We had an area veterinarian here a few years ago who dodged abuse/neglect charges on starving horses to death, by surrendering her license to practice and agreeing to pay restitution to tax payers and the rescue who took in the surviving animals. (She never did pay, naturally.)

I know a current vet here whose own dogs are so morbidly obese they can barely manage a few steps out the door to potty.

So yep, vets are all over the place on this, and the shame of it is, my experience is most folks with overweight pets will just keep switching vets 'til they find one that will tell them what they want to hear, or at least enable them by keeping their mouth shut.

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Rosemary

I don't think KoKo has been to the vet since she was spayed. She's not on any kind of heartworm prevention, never has been, and they lived in Minnesota, which does have heartworm, before moving to CA a few months ago. I had to tell them what kind of flea control to get, and how to use it (we may have brought home fleas, so now I need to treat my crew).

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uh-man-burger

One of the dogs that I groomed a few days ago was also morbidly obese. I wish I would've taken a picture. She called it a "Cavachon." I'm assuming a Cavalier X Bichon? She told me he weighed 50 pounds! He was huge! He was approximately the height of our am. cocker spaniel but was a barrel at least a foot and a half in diameter.

On top of the dog being so obese, he had at least one fake knee. Couldn't stand more than a minute or two on the table and was matted as matted could be in the rear end.

So so sad.