New Zealand Dog News

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September 22, 2007

Doggie days

We're a country obsessed with our ever-expanding waistlines. I can sit and watch mine for hours.

And now, we've extended that obsession to the waistlines of our pets with the new TV3 series Downsize My Pet, Tuesdays at 7.30pm, a spin-off from the original Downsize Me! Stern veterinarian Sasha Nowell and pet personal trainer Alexis Banas take over the expert roles and go in to help worried families with their porker dogs and cats.

As humans we have little excuse for not getting off our butts and eating only bad foods.

We open the fridge and pantry for ourselves, so make the choice every day. For our pets, however, it's harder.

They don't have opposable thumbs for one, and so can't open the doors for themselves.

They rely on their humans to feed them, exercise them and keep them in a state of relative health. And given that most people owned by cats or dogs are big softies, we're inclined to give in to them more often than not, so you end up with dogs like Blackie, the debut dog for Downsize My Pet.

(...) Blackie was put on a new diet, and a new exercise regime and in a matter of weeks, was a new dog altogether.MORE>>

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