Dog Obesity

The problem of the excess of weight in the dogs affects approximately 30% of these, which usually weigh more than 20% of its normal weight. 

The treatment of the obesity in dogs, whenever a pathological cause doesn't exist, it will be based on the control of the diet. For they exist it countless forms and methods. However, one of the main causes of the failures in the treatments of the obesity is that of the execution grade on the part of the client of the dietary protocols dictated by the veterinary. 

It has been observed that the dogs subjected to stricter diets with object to quickly loose weight, they had a bigger tendency to recover the overweight than those dogs whose diet was less strict (that is to say, losing the same weight but during a longer period of time). 

Starting from this experience, comes the recommendation that it is much more effective a slow and gradual lost of weight than on the contrary. In consequence, there will be the need to convince the proprietor and to tell him of the inefficacy of the quick diets and of the necessity of having lots of patience and will.