Pet Weight Loss

We think healthy weight loss is so important as part of over all pet care.

Your pet can die prematurely due to excess weight. The biggest thing with carrying extra weight is damage to joints, bones, and ligaments.  In order of incidence, the following diseases can affect overweight pets: shortened life span, heart disease, breathing difficulty, skin disease, liver disease, increased surgical and anaesthetic risk, diabetes, heat intolerance, digestive upsets, reduced exercise tolerance and skeletal and joints problems such as arthritis. 

Approximately 25% of overweight dogs develop serious joint complications. The most common joint affected by overweight dogs is the cranial cruciate rupture of the stifle joint. (Particularly those pets encouraged to perform explosive type exercise like ball chasing).

Surgical repair could be the treatment of choice and can be quite costly. Also sadly, any joint which suffers premature structural aging and subsequent early onset arthritis, will drastically affect the quality of and shorten, their lives.

If you have any questions regarding your pets weight please contact the clinic on 02 6884 9900 and we can come up with a weight loss plan.