If your dog is too obese, you should take it to the pet hospital for examination. After ruling out other dog diseases that cause obesity, you should immediately develop a weight loss plan for it. It is also the owner’s duty to restore the dog to a healthy and fit body!

1. Unhealthy diet

Overeating in dogs can easily lead to overnutrition and fat accumulation in the body, causing dogs to gradually become obese. Picky eaters and partial eclipses can easily lead to insufficient nutrition in dogs, nutritional imbalances in the body, and obesity in dogs. During the growth period of dogs, excessive nutrition or a serious lack of certain nutrients in the body will cause the hormone secretion in the dog's body to be imbalanced, inducing the dog to become obese, thus producing a series of obesity sequelae. One of the effective ways to prevent dog obesity is to eat your dog's diet on time and in the right amount, with nutritionally balanced food.

Using diet control to solve the problem of obesity should follow the following seven principles

①Don’t eat cookies

②Don’t eat fat

③Replace the whole-meat canned diet with a slimming canned diet

④Use wheat as food to satisfy your hunger

⑤Use cooked vegetables as food to satisfy your hunger

⑥Try canned "weight loss diet" (obtain a prescription from your veterinarian)

⑦ Give dogs on a restricted diet a multivitamin specially designed for treatment.

2. Don’t like sports

Like people, lack of exercise in dogs is also one of the reasons for dog obesity. The calories and fat your dog consumes every day need to be consumed through exercise. Insufficient exercise will definitely lead to the accumulation of calories and fat in the body, making the dog more and more obese. Owners should often guide the dog to exercise, take the dog out to the park, take a walk, or train the dog to play ball and Frisbee. This will not only help Promote the dog's blood circulation, enhance metabolism, help lose weight, and also enhance the relationship between the dog and its owner.

3. Aging dogs

As dogs begin to age, their body’s metabolism begins to slow down, their digestive system begins to decline, and their bones begin to slowly deteriorate. Older dogs do not like to exercise and prefer to sleep, which can easily lead to the accumulation of calories and fat in the body and make them gain weight. Moreover, obesity in old dogs can also cause a series of other complications. Therefore, the older the dog, the owner should guide the dog to do simple exercises, or take the dog for frequent walks outdoors. First, it can strengthen the old dog. Dog bone exercise can also effectively consume fat and calories to avoid obesity in older dogs.

IV. Varieties Differences

Dog obesity is also related to the dog’s genetic genes. For example, pugs, Pekingese dogs, bulldogs and other breeds are all breeds that are prone to obesity. Although this type of dog is also lively and active and loves sports, due to breed genetic reasons, this type of dog is more likely to gain weight than other breeds of dogs.

There are various reasons for dog obesity. Except for dog pathological obesity or obesity caused by genetic factors, we cannot avoid and control it. We can avoid other obesity caused by diet and exercise through effective methods, so that dogs can have a perfect and healthy body shape and body.

In addition to the four reasons mentioned above, some diseases can also cause dog obesity, such as insufficient thyroid energy, adrenal hyperactivity, pancreatic gland tumors and certain brain tumors. Dogs suffering from the above diseases often feel hungry and eat large amounts, eventually leading to obesity.