Your Pet's Healthy Weight

Your Pet's Healthy Weight

Benefits of keeping your pet at a healthy weight?

Excess weight can reduce your pet’s life expectancy by more than two years.

Even a modest reduction in weight can significantly reduce your pet’s risk of life-threatening diseases.

Keeping your pet at a healthy weight lowers his/her risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory disease, kidney disease, and some forms of cancer. It can also reduce the risks of injury to bones, joints and muscles that are associated with excess weight. If your pet has arthritis, keeping him/her at a healthy weight makes it easier to manage the discomfort associated with joint pain. Because excess weight can reduce your pet’s life expectancy by more than two years, keeping your pet trim gives them the best chance of a longer, healthier, and pain-free life. In simplest terms, weight loss involves reducing your pet’s caloric intake and increasing their activity level to burn more calories. Be patient. It often takes longer to lose weight than it did for your pet to gain it. In simplest terms, weight loss involves reducing your pet’s caloric intake and increasing their activity level to burn more calories. Be patient. It often takes longer to lose weight than it did for your pet to gain it.

How to reduce your pet’s weight?

There is no one size fits all what works for one pet might not work for another. It’s probably no surprise, Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight requires a commitment to a healthier lifestyle that achieves a balance between the calories consumed and the calories used by the body for normal functions and activity. Even a modest reduction in weight can significantly reduce your pet’s risk of life-threatening diseases.

Make your pet first
Work with your veterinarian; make an honest assessment of your pet’s weight. Does your pet have any problems that have been caused by excess weight .Focus on what matters – your pet’s good health and long life. Remember it’s not all about you it is for your pets well being.