since when is fat healthy?

[kellykelly]

xerxes is thinner, when he was young he was starved enough where it was supposed to cause enough damage where he can't gain weight easily and has high metabolism...

if you put a hand on him and apply pressure you can feel his spine/ribs but no bones are sticking out and he was confirmed healthy by the vet. he's just a thinner individual...

a woman had pet xerxes yesterday and gave me this speech about how I was starving him and that kinda bs because she could feel his ribcage on him as opposed to her lab where all you feel is fat.

since when is fat healthy? I'm not talking about a couple pounds, I'm talking 5+-10-15 lbs.
like you see a dog like this and most people consider it healthy/normal:


from this link, credit to owner. not mine: http://dogsarethecoolest.files.wordp...tdogonsand.jpg


but a dog like this is looked at as too thin/unhealthy:


photo from this link, credit to owner. not mine: http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...chos/001-2.jpg

are bigger dogs really the standard for health now? it seems wrong...dogs shouldnt have their bones poking out but really, this is concerning if people think this is normal/healthy to have a dog that weighs 10 or more pounds more than they're supposed to?

[AveryandAudrey]

I will never allow my dogs to get fat! Shar-pei are easily obese breed and I'm happy to say that my girl is very fit. And my chihuahua, her spine ripples show a little. She's my mini pit bull I say because shes got big butt muscles. There is a thread on this forum under the pictures section where we all posted pics of our in shape dogs. And in shape does not mean over weight.

[xellil]

No one would consider the dog in the first photo a healthy weight. Not even people in minnesota. If anyone says that dog is healthy, I call bull$$it.

[Caty M]

People suck. When Tessie went in for stitches a woman said to her husband in the waiting room, "That dog is SKIN and BONES. She needs to learn how to feed a damn dog properly!" when her dog was in for sores on his stomach because his stomach dragged on the ground (dachshund). I have an Italian greyhound so they are skinny naturally. I have to feed her 10% of her body weight to keep anything on her.

[meggels]

Oh man, I would have lost it Caty.


I get it with both Murph and Abbie on a weekly basis.






I'm considering making a t shirt that says "My dog isn't too thin, yours is just too fat."

[malluver1005]

I thought I saw an obese yellow lab in the first photo!?!? Anywho, I can't see how anyone in their right mind would think that the first dog is healthy. It doesn't even look like a dog anymore...more like a pot bellied pig.

[kellykelly]

No one would consider the dog in the first photo a healthy weight. Not even people in minnesota. If anyone says that dog is healthy, I call bull$$it.

hopefully not all of Minnesota but my neighbors do. 2 of the 3 labs in the neighborhood are about 10-15 lbs overweight, sadder thing is this one house. this one girl has a chihuahua that weighs 30lbs and a border collie that weighs 100, it's upsetting to see. :(

@malluver1005 yeah, the top pic was different for a sec. I originally posted the wrong comparison picture by accident. :I

[xellil]

You get verbally attacked by people pretty much every time you go out in public.

Dogs are running loose all the time, pestering you and chasing you up trees even. The police refuse to help because the dog that you AREN'T walking is a pit bull.

A man sprints across the park and maces your dog in the face as you work calmly with him.

And now your neighbors think a dog that is at least 80 pounds overweight is normal.

My imagination is stretched, even for the internet.

[AveryandAudrey]

Meggels, you totally should make that shirt!

Well my husband family tries to shove food down my throat, its lame. And they are overweight. Haha So I know how the dogs are feeling.

[malluver1005]

The fattest dogs I have seen, yet, are a 68 lb. beagle and a 200 lb. rottie!!