WHOA! Chunky Monkey

[Leslie]

I weighed Zuzu last night--she is a whopping 15.5 pounds!!!!!  Looks like the green bean fairy is about to arrive.  She needs to lose ONE and a HALF pounds.

[Barb]

Wintertime does that to all of us 

(I noticed my Toby is getting hefty too - will up his green bean intake, along with the Zu !!!!)

[MindyKay]

The green bean fairy will be visiting us as well.  Ozzy needs to lose some weight, too.

[Marcia from MI]

Danni says:

I offer my services as trainer a quick run around the yard at 90 mph is the best way to keep your figure.

[Leslie]

Danni, da snow is still too deep to run around!  BUT!  I did find a nice juicy dead critter under about 5" of snow.  Momma tossed it over the fence.  I was hungry. :-(

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

We feel for you ZuZu. Hallie has had many a bean in her life too. On the prescription food she's on now I am feeding her almost double of what I used to and I still struggle to keep enough weight on her. It's verrrry strange to suddenly have the opposite problem. We'll be rootin' for you and for your Mom cuz we know it's going to be hard on her too. 

[laura*romeos*mommy]

Ok I don't understand Green Bean so you feed them green beans to get there weight down?????
hugs and love laura and romeo

[Doxherding Karen]

Exactly!  :thumb:

Most puppers will eat anything that isn't nailed down or painted grey, so hoomans have to feed them salad. In puppers' case, they LOVE green beans and will scarf them down. The pupper's tummy is full, the hooman isn't frantic that said pupper is being starved and the weight comes off.

Roscoe-Angel  went from a blue whale @ 24 pounds to a svelte 14 pounds and he loved every bite!

Auntie Keren

[Mike]

Just be sure the beans are "no salt added". 

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

And don't do like my cousin, who I told to substitute 1/4 of her grossly overweight dog's food with green beans...he wouldn't eat them so she put mayonnaise on them.  :thinik:

[papbouv]

Patches gets green beans,carrots,spinach,lettuce anything she can vaccum up.

[Kari]

Penny has been on the green bean diet for a couple of months now. She needed to lose a few pounds and it worked quite well. I buy the big bad of frozen green beans at the grocery store and unfreeze a small baggie at a time as needed. She of course loves them and doesn't know she is on a diet  :thumb:

[Brekkesmom]

Is it 1/3 less kibble and about 1/4 cup pureed, no salt added green beans?  We may need a visit from said fairy, too, - our contractor says the furkids are a "bit pudgy"!  :verdict:  :eeew:  We did have squash, zucchini, and julienne carrots atop the kibble last night and tonight, and are not pleased to discover that our two bedtime biscuits have dwindled to one! :confused:   

Regarding the contractor: Mom has a new front porch light fixture, as well as one for the side door on the garage, and the two back porchlight fixtures now match.  She had the backyard "Bastian-proofed" (we now have 6 foot long x 1 foot high redwood boards nailed horizontally end-to-end), so he can't get an edge to chew on or through!  Mom also got her wire-basket pull-out drawer installed in the pantry - box sat in the garage for about 2 years - and the lime tree was trimmed down to 10 feet - got rid of the huge growth of scraggly-looking 15 foot tall branches.

[Kathleen]

And don't do like my cousin, who I told to substitute 1/4 of her grossly overweight dog's food with green beans...he wouldn't eat them so she put mayonnaise on them.  :thinik:

  OMG, that is absolutely hilarious.  Kind of defeats the purpose. 

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Not only defeats it but makes it worse huh?  :verdict:

Here is the poor soul. Zuzu this might make you feel a little better (and thinner)!

[laura*romeos*mommy]

So just regular no salt added green beans from the can or frozen correct ?  Now give him those instead of his food and how much and how often ?  Also you cook them up right heat them up that is or just give them ?  Sorry for all the questions thanks for the help
hugs and love laura and romeo :verdict:

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

What I did is got the canned green beans with no salt added. Replace 1/4 the amount of food you normally give him, with green beans until the weight comes off.

[papbouv]

No do not replace all the dog food with all green beans you will make your dog sick needs the dog food but not as much for a well balanced diet remove about a 1/4 of the dog food replace wth no salt green beans.

[papbouv]

Gee cannot believe that poor Papillon the owner needs to be shot no excuse to let a little Papillon get that over weight sorry. Yes I'm over weight but I try to keep a handle on my pets weight exercise really helps too Buddy never over weight but have to fight to keep patches weight in line harder to do in winter time. I wish I could keep my scooter going all winter but can't have the batteries freeze.
Hope the Papillon is more back on track now.

[Leslie]

Gee cannot believe that poor Papillon the owner needs to be shot no excuse to let a little Papillon get that over weight sorry.
Hope the Papillon is more back on track now.

SRSLY He is HUGE. His owners are killing him.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

I totally agree with you guys. They really are killing him, he's only 5 and has already torn his cruciates and has luxating patellas surgery on both back legs. He pants so loud all the time. She thinks it's because his hair is too thick... He's not losing any at all he keeps gaining all the time. She says she can't stand it when he sits by his bowl and looks at her. The dogs never eat treats she offers they are too full! The other papillon is overweight too just not quite as much as this guy. It drives me nuts I've done all I can to convince them how bad this is.

Anyway this is Zuzu's thread, didn't mean to hijack it, Hallie says if she needs a sponser she can call her anytime day or night if she feels herself slipping! :thumb:

[papbouv]

DeeDee tell them I had a Papillon for 14 & 1/2 years always weighed 7-8 pounds I do not think they love their dogs very much to let an animal get that over weight since the dogs do not have thumbs its not like they feed their selfs the only way a dog can get fat is because their owners over feed them. Will enclose a picture of Gizmo you can show them what a Pap is suppose to look like, she was not a show dog she was a pet cause of death Alzheimers at 14 & 1/2 years old.Papbouv
Actually that Pap looks like they are in pain shame on them.Put the bowl up ? how about crateing the dog when they are eating ? there are ways they can do it.

[BonniesMom]

Bonnie sez:  "Zuzus, youse not fat.  Youse fluffy!    

[VBDoxieMom]

We think thin is overrated! 
Solomon used to LOVE LOVE LOVE zucchini.  Raw, just  peeled and diced into little cubes.  Thin that was second on his list after greenies.  and dingos.  and marrow bones......LOLOL- an
Kirby doesn't like food, and obviously only eats it to survive.  And so Max doesn't get it.  Max will eat anything - and he does like veggies - baby carrots are a good substitute for treats.
Spring is coming, its almost WALK time - then we will all thin out.   Hoomans included.  I hope.

[vferraro99]

And don't do like my cousin, who I told to substitute 1/4 of her grossly overweight dog's food with green beans...he wouldn't eat them so she put mayonnaise on them.  :thinik:

Excuse me?????? :scratch: