[Lucky098]

Hello everyone :) I need some assistance...

I have a fat dog.

She's huge! And I don't get why. Had her thyroid checked about 3 years ago or so.. and she came up good. No problems at all. I'm thinking about getting her retested. Does thyroid problems pop up as dogs get older?

She's a pittie and rottie mix. We call her a rotten pit ;) She's spayed.

The thing that puzzles me the most is she only gets fed a cup and a half twice a day so a total of 3 cups each day. All my dogs are very active and she is the only chubby one in the group. She gets plenty of exercise. I wish I could push her more on that end, but she has a bum leg (born that way) and favors it pretty bad if she pushes herself to hard on a run.

She's been on diet food and lost a little bit of weight. When I first started to notice she was getting large, she was stealing everyone's food. I did put a stop to that which helped greatly in her weight loss the first round.

She gets only dog biscuits as treats, no human food. I feed high protein foods which I understand is suppose to keep dogs naturally "fit".. The diet food I put her on was very high in protein. I also cut her back by 1/4 of what she was normally getting. Everything was going good and then suddenly she just stopped losing weight and started gaining it all back again.

She's a very young dog still.. She's only 5. But she reminds me of a Yorkshire Pig in every way. Its hot right now, and she's all black.. She doesn't move much.

I don't know what to do. I'm kind of at a loss. I tried her diet all over again and nothing changed. I kept at it for months but she never lost weight but continued to gain. I stopped buying the diet food because it was expensive and obviously wasn't working. She is now eating the reg. adult dog food.

My poor chubby girl :( lol

[Aurora_Bell]

Lucky, will she swim? Max has a bad leg, and is pretty over weight. Swimming has done him wonders.

Some dogs are just naturally chubby. Sounds like you are doing every thing right.

[Lucky098]

Nope, she'll get her belly wet. If she swims its on accident and won't go back in the water afterwords. And... on top of that she's not a good swimmer.. she tends to sink low in the water.. Its funny to watch, but I'm sure its no fun for her lol

[Aurora_Bell]

Lol, you Lady is the same, but not over weight. Max can't get enough of the water. Too bad :(

[Lucky098]

My other pit loves water.. She turns into a fish.