Ripley and I got together with friends we hadn't seen for awhile this afternoon. My friend took one look at Ripley and called him a chunk.
I knew he was looking glossier after 7 weeks on raw, and perhaps a little more filled out, but not a porker.
He really doesn't get that much food. I feed him at 2% of his ideal weight (65 lbs). I'm looking for ways to cut calories. Should I start removing the fat from meats I feed him? Any other tips?
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Ripley and I got together with friends we hadn't seen for awhile this afternoon. My friend took one look at Ripley and called him a chunk.
I knew he was looking glossier after 7 weeks on raw, and perhaps a little more filled out, but not a porker.
He really doesn't get that much food. I feed him at 2% of his ideal weight (65 lbs). I'm looking for ways to cut calories. Should I start removing the fat from meats I feed him? Any other tips?
Can you link us to photos of side view (from ground level) and looking down at him from above, both with him standing?
I'm not a big fan of low-fat diets for healthy dogs (note: "healthy" dogs). Dogs use raw fats and raw oils very efficiently and dogs do not have the plaque-type coronary artery disease that we have.
If the chubbo dog is on a well-balanced diet, then the best thing is almost always to just cut it down by 10%.
Do you know about the famous green-bean diet? It can be a godsend if the dog gives you a tragic face when he sees his new lighter food-bowl.
Of course, if there's "extra" fat in the diet now, fat certainly is the most calorie-dense of the macronutrients, at double the calories of protein or carbs. You can certainly pull off the big extra blob you see on many chicken backs, for instance.
All JMO!
What's his fat intake like? Just the normal fat on poultry RMBs, or what?
And now that the weather is nicer, perhaps just getting him moving a bit more will help. I've noticed a direct correlation to the dog's waist (and mine) when we aren't outside moving as much as we normally are.
He doesn't look fat at all to me. A fat lab has no tuck up in the side profile and no waist at all. There is a roll of flab over the tail when they sit.
Labs are not a deep chested greyhound looking dog. I think your dog looks great!
He doesn't look fat at all to me. A fat lab has no tuck up in the side profile and no waist at all. There is a roll of flab over the tail when they sit.
True that.
How many labs are out in the world waddling around, twenty to forty pounds overweight?
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