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The Effect of Dog Obesity on Your Dog’s Heart
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by doglover.
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There is a clear link between dog obesity and the health of your dog’s heart. The more weight your dog carries, the harder the heart must work to push the blood through his body, resulting in an increase in heartbeats per minute and the force of the heartbeats themselves. Additionally the circulation of the blood [...]
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Is My Dog Obese?
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by doglover.
Before we start looking at solutions to obesity in dogs, it’s important to work out if your dog is in fact overweight. There are many sets of guidelines which give the ideal weights for dogs and bitches of various breeds. That’s all good and well. I think it’s more important that you actually look at [...]
