Obesity is not only a health killer of human beings, but now it has become a disease of hairy children! Because of the excessive doting of hairy parents, or the wrong concept of raising, they think fat is cute, etc., Let the furry kids get fatter than the last. Because cats and dogs at home do not need to hunt for food, their living space is also limited, and they do not need too many calories, so they can easily become overweight. For the health of furry children, good weight management is also very important! Otherwise, you will be like this cat, who can't even jump out of the bathtub.

? Wrong Eating Habits

First of all, make sure Children choose suitable feed, according to the amount of activity, body size and age of the hairy child to judge. The following website is designed by a Japanese veterinary institute to calculate the daily calorie intake for hairy children. In fact, whether it is feed, canned or fresh food, try not to feed one of them alone, it is best to eat them together to avoid unbalanced nutrition of hairy children.

?Birth control surgery

Hairy children who have undergone birth control surgery are prone to gain weight due to endocrine changes. Therefore, it is necessary to recalculate the feeding amount after ligation, so that the weight will not increase linearly.

?Insufficient physical activity

Many parents are so busy with work that they often don't have much time to play with their furry children throughout the day. Not to mention going out for a walk. Insufficient physical activity for a long time, the heat of the hairy child continues to accumulate, and of course it is on the way to gain weight.

Hair babies have different breeds, gender, age, etc., how do I know if my baby is overweight? In fact, to know whether you are overweight, in addition to measuring body fat, you can also use the so-called Body Condition Score, or BCS for short, to simply test the hairy child. BCS is judged from the appearance and touch. The ideal body shape is that the ribs cannot be seen from the appearance, but you can feel it when you touch it; the waist should be a little bit when viewed from the back of the ribs; the line of the abdomen should be inclined upward when viewed from the side. On the contrary, if you can't feel the obvious ribs, no waist, and a sagging belly, it means that your furry child is too fat~

It is best before losing weight Discuss with your doctor before developing a weight loss plan. Otherwise, some parents want to see the results as soon as possible, and use too drastic means to make their children lose weight. Sudden reduction of the amount of feeding, or forcing the furry child to exercise, etc., is actually not good. Don't feed with the ultimate goal at the beginning, so the body of the dog will not be able to bear it. ? In order to let the hairy child not work too hard during the weight loss period, it can be carried out in a small amount of meals, and the amount of feeding can be adjusted by 2% less every week, or it can be changed to feed for weight loss. The amount of exercise is also a very important part, please make time to take your furry child to exercise. Walking briskly for 20 minutes a day, or walking for 60 minutes, etc., can achieve the effect of exercise. (But this is not suitable for dogs with cardiovascular and pulmonary problems!) Don't forget to pay attention to water intake after increasing the amount of exercise~

To successfully help the hairy child lose weight, the owner must also With patience and perseverance, like human beings, losing weight is not an easy thing to do. Please work hard with the hairy child. Only if you have an ideal body shape can you have a healthy body~