You may think an extra pound or two can’t hurt that much, but a pound is not just a pound. While two or three additional pounds may have very little effect on you or me, they can be quite serious for your pet. Three extra pounds on a fifteen pound dog is equivalent to a one hundred and fifty pound person gaining thirty extra pounds, and three extra pounds on a ten pound cat is equal to forty-five extra pounds on a one hundred and fifty pound person!
How can you help keep your pet healthy? We use something called the body condition score to assess a pet’s weight, as there can be quite a range of “normal” weights for a specific dog breed. Body condition score is a way to judge how much fat or muscle is on an animal and is more accurate than weight in judging an animal’s body composition. It is based on a 1-9 scale, with a 4-5 being a healthy weight.
To score body condition we look at:
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