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Diet Foods for Dogs?
Posted on 05. May, 2010 by doglover.
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Can you share your diet food with your dog? The best answer to that is “probably not”. Many diet foods for people contain xylitol as a sugar substitute. That’s fine for us, but in dogs xylitol causes a sudden and rapid release of insulin from the pancreas. This leads to a drop in his blood [...]
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Morbidly Obese Dog Loses Weight
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by doglover.
Jiffy is a Border Collie who lived in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, and in December 2008, he weighed 120lbs. That, for those of us who are into metric, is 54.4kg. Because he found it so hard to move around, he froze to the footpath! A court ordered his owner to give him up, and he has [...]
