AR-News: AR NEWS: Putting pets on a diet

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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_2255649,0
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September 13, 2003 
Here's something we didn't need to hear: We're fat and so are our pets. The 
National Research Council reports that about one-fourth of dogs and cats are 
obese, predisposing them to health problems.
The reasons? Too much food and too little exercise. And the solution is the 
same: a better diet and more exercise. Dogs are easy, of course, but how do you 
get a cat to work out?Pets in other Western nations have similar weight 
problems. What a testament to the abundance of those societies that pets are in 
danger from too much food rather than, as happens in dirt-poor backwaters like 
North Korea, winding up as food.
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