As Americans we don't only have to worry about children becoming obese but there has also been a steady rise of animal obesity. When people eat unhealthy foods like hamburgers and fries and feed the scraps to their pets, the pet too is being exposed to the poor nutrition of that food. Junk food causes not only people but animals to gain excess weight. Like humans if you lead a life with very little exercise you can become very over weight. Same goes for animals when your pets don't get the necessary exercise needed to lead a healthy life they too will start to gain excess weight. Animals have been found with kidney failure, diabetes, cancer, and shorter life expectancy because of their obesity. A way to prevent animal obesity is to try to teach your pet to walk on a leash or to feed them a healthy portion of animal food not junk scraps.
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http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/ireports/2012/02/06/irpt-levs-pet-obesity.cnn
This is so true. I have a friend who feed their dog table scraps and she's sooooo fat it's not even funny (and she eat healthy food).
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