Help your obese pet slim down with PDSA Pet Fit Club

12 million UK pets are being fed too many fatty treats, which is fuelling the UK pet obesity epidemic and leading to many more obese pets. That is the finding of the biggest national pet health Report conducted by leading veterinary charity, PDSA.

In response to these worrying statistics, PDSA is launching its annual search to find the UK's most obese pets with the worst diets and help them slim down and do more exercise as part of its pet slimming competition, Pet Fit Club.

PDSA's current pet slimming champions are Labrador, Lucky from Cardiff and Rottweiler Maddison from Liverpool. With PDSA's help, a new diet and exercise regime helped these two obese pets slim down and lose around 25kg, the equivalent weight to around eight Yorkshire terriers. Both pets were morbidly obese when they started PDSA Pet Fit Club back in December 2010.

Pet fit club will educate owners on new diets and exercise routines for their obese pets to help them to slim down and become healthier. People can enter Pet Fit Club at www.pdsa.org.uk/petslimmers

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[burgesspetcare]

Great video highlighting an all too common problem. Burgess Excel are proud to support the PDSA's Fit Club Challenge!