Can animals moderate caloric intake?

I've always wondered if animals and humans have the same kind of metabollic system.

Does insulin affect their bodies the same as them?
does 3500 extra calories for animals = one pound of fat or is it different?

Just questions like that.

I noticed my dog eats 1 cup or 2 of dog food and thats barely 500 calories.
 
Oh, that's so sad. I feel really bad for that dog, and I wonder how anyone could let their pet get like that. It's called only feeding them twice a day... It's not that hard.
 
I have a 120ish pound chocolate Lab (Sabar)

That's not even a snack.

I must reduce his diet though, to reduce the 20 pound Sabar sausages in the back yard.


Best wishes,

Chillen
 
My dog has gotten too used to eating human food.
He'd eat anything we eat...rice..breads...meats..even veggies LOL
 
I've actually seen an overweight dog like that at a party one time. The owners didn't seem to care much, I think they thought it was funny. People kept giving it food scraps just to watch it eat. It acted like it was constantly starving...

It's sad enough that there are this many people who are overweight, but dogs? I mean, come on. If we now have a dog obesity problem, that's just sad.
 
I love my lab. He has been my friend and has no restrictions on his love. The bond between us cannot be measured.

He knows when I need to get up to train (prior to work) and will bark (rattling the walls) and annoying my wife, and then come over and slither his 5 inch wide tongue on my face a few times (giving me a bath), all gung ho and ready yo go workout with me, LOL. He can sit reach up and even open the garage door by pawing on the door knob. And, if I am being too slow in getting to the garage, he will run up and down the hall barking scooting his big ass butt (its funny if you saw it).

He loves Peanut Butter as much as I do, and I laugh every time he struggles to eat it, and then he's begging for more.


Best wishes,


Chillen
 
We don't have a dog. Just a cat. But we have one vicariously through a close friend of my mom's. He brings her over a few nights out of the week. She's a really cute Queensland heeler mix, white with black speckles. She does not get along with the cat at all. She's a little plump, but not seriously overweight.
 
When my family and I go out running (we still do this twice per week), Sabar comes with us and runs. We watch his diet, and he is in good shape for being nearly 8 years old (which is OLD for a large breed such as a lab). He still looks lean and is as gentle as ever. He doesnt have to prove he is tough. :) Being himself proves it.

Best wishes


Chillen
 
Speaking of pet diets, our cat refuses to eat cat food. Someone dumped him off in our neighborhood when he was a kitten and we tamed him on meat scraps. He won't eat anything but real meat. When we try to feed him cat food he looks disgusted. I guess real meat is healthier than the processed food though. He also gets to eat his share of wild critters. He virtually eliminated all of the gophers in our yard.

Here's a picture of him.
 

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spicypumpkin said:
Speaking of pet diets, our cat refuses to eat cat food. Someone dumped him off in our neighborhood when he was a kitten and we tamed him on meat scraps. He won't eat anything but real meat. When we try to feed him cat food he looks disgusted. I guess real meat is healthier than the processed food though. He also gets to eat his share of wild critters. He virtually eliminated all of the gophers in our yard.

Here's a picture of him.
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He is spoit, my mothers cat was like that. They eventually get hungry enough to eat cat food.
 
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NBS 4life said:
He is spoit, my mothers cat was like that. They eventually get hungry enough to eat cat food.
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I don't know, I think I feel better about feeding him real food. It's closer to what he would eat in the wild. I'd rather not give my money to the pet food corporations, there can be some nasty stuff in dog/cat food. I think if we tried to start feeding him cat food, he would run away and just eat birds, mice and gophers.
 
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