Dog diet drug

Maybe I should start doing gastric bypasses on chubby dogs too?  This seems a little over the top for me as you "should" be incontrol of what your dog eats and how often it exercises.  There aren't the same issues you see with human obesity.  Are there emotional doggie eaters too?  They are starting to prosecute parents of obese kids, I agree the owners should be charged with cruelty. 

What really worries me about this new drug is people will see it as a 'quick fix'. Ruling out any medical conditions, an over weight dog is a symptom of a poor lifestyle imposed on them by their owners, most notably over feeding (or misfeeding) and lack of exercise. All this drug will accomplish is to allow the owners to continue their unhealthy ways. Whether or not the dog loses weight is secondary to the fact they are continuing to eat "beer and doughnuts" and are never walked. So they are still unhealthy and will inevitably develop many other health problems besides obesity.

I read a couple of articles on it yesterday and what really bothers me is that one said that humans should not even think about taking this dog medication due to the dangerous side effects-but it's OK for the dog. Go figure, red flag to me.

I agree with you 100% Denise.  These days everything is a "Quick Fix", "Help Me", "Quick and Easy".  To many people do not want to be bothered with things, they are "to busy".  I remember when I first saw boxed cookie mix.  Then came the dairy case cookie dough you just had to slice.  Then came the dairy case cookie dough that was already formed and you just take it out and put it on a cookie sheet.  How much easier is that than haveing to measure, sift, cream , mix, put spoons of dough on a cookie sheet.  And macaroni and cheese.  First it was mixes  in a box with POWDERED cheese.  that did take a pan to boil the macaroni, etc.  NOW they have one you put in the microwave--no diry pan, seconds instead of minutes.  I have never eaten those but i bet they don't come close to my home made macaroni & cheese.
 
But it is the same with everything.Pills to lose weight, pills and patches to stop smoking.  Neither are easy (I stopped smoking 7 1/2 yers ago) but it can be done if you work at it.  But people dont' want to to work at it, they don't want to remember to give their dog a heart worm pill once a month--that was why that deadly Proheart6 was so popular--you only took you dog in twice a year of a shot you didn't have to remember each month to giv e a pill.  The vet's office notified you when it was time for another injection.  
 
  I see this commercial on TV that Sally Fields does.  She talks about a friend talking about "having to take time out one morning a week" to  take her calcuim pill. Just how long does it take to take a pill.  The ad makes it sound like she she has to waste hours taking a pill.  Sally don't want to have to take time one morning a week, so she takes a monthly one.
 
In the case of Bo, it was not rush, rush, to busy.  They were just cruel, unfeeling, stupid, uncaring creatures not fit to be called Human.  Anyone that thinks it is funny to see a slug looking dog covered in sores from his own urine & poop, that cant even get to his feet...they do not have a soul, they are of the ilk of these serial killers and they should have been put in jail.

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I see this commercial on TV that Sally Fields does.  She talks about a friend talking about "having to take time out one morning a week" to  take her calcuim pill. Just how long does it take to take a pill.  The ad makes it sound like she she has to waste hours taking a pill.  Sally don't want to have to take time one morning a week, so she takes a monthly one.

Oh my gosh that commercial irritates the crap out of me too. 
 
I'm sorry Sooner, I posted a similar topic in the Anything and Everything section almost right after you posted this one, I didnt know you had already posted about it too.  It's a very disturbing story though isn't it.

Completely off topic, but:

ORIGINAL: sandra_slayton

I see this commercial on TV that Sally Fields does.  She talks about a friend talking about "having to take time out one morning a week" to  take her calcuim pill. Just how long does it take to take a pill.  The ad makes it sound like she she has to waste hours taking a pill.  Sally don't want to have to take time one morning a week, so she takes a monthly one.

They're talking about osteoporosis prescriptions though, not your normal everyday pill. Some of those have nasty side effects - severe heartburn, nausea and ulcers - among others. Some people can't sit or lay down for an hour or two after taking them. A monthly pill probably is more convienent for most sufferers.

I would think that for the average overweight dog, less food and moving more would solve the problem. Most dogs that weigh too much don't fall into the morbidly obese catagory and as owners, we DO have control over what and how much our dogs eat.  I don't know why a doggie diet pill should surprise anyone.  It wasn't all that long ago that I saw a guy on TV who was having cosmetic surgery done on a shar pei because he thought the dog was too wrinkled. [:@] I just couldn't figure out why in the world someone who didn't like wrinkled dogs would get a shar pei in the first place - sort of like getting a doxie and then having surgical leg extensions to make him taller.
 
Joyce

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I don't think I'd resort to drugs unless it was a life threatening health situation. 

One of the dogs I sit for is on the Canine Zone diet.  Here's a link--

[linkhttp://www.dog-food-zone.com/canine_zone.htm]http://www.dog-food-zone.com/canine_zone.htm[/link]

I agree.  I think there is a need for this drug.  Here's an example.  I went to the County pound before Christmas and there was a horribly obese terrier mix.  It was at the pound because its elderly owner died.  I hate to say it, and no offense to the elderly on this forum, but sometimes elderly people forget that they already fed their pet.  Or their pet is the only thing they have and they over feed it.  In this case, way over feed it. 

If some kind soul were to adopt this poor creature, they may need something like this drug.  This dog was so fat, I don't think it was able to walk.

However, I do think that the animal should have never got that fat.  Where were the elderly owner's relatives?  Then again, sometimes old people are so difficult.  Honestly, I think people who are "all there" should be ashamed to have ever caused their animal to become so fat.  It's not funny.  It's life threatening, but I do think there is a need for this drug.

jojo; I've missed your posts and am glad to see you're back. []

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jojo; I've missed your posts and am glad to see you're back. []

I went on vacation for Christmas and before that I was very, very busy.

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ORIGINAL: willowchow

I don't think I'd resort to drugs unless it was a life threatening health situation. 

One of the dogs I sit for is on the Canine Zone diet.  Here's a link--

[linkhttp://www.dog-food-zone.com/canine_zone.htm]http://www.dog-food-zone.com/canine_zone.htm[/link]

I agree.  I think there is a need for this drug.  Here's an example.  I went to the County pound before Christmas and there was a horribly obese terrier mix.  It was at the pound because its elderly owner died.  I hate to say it, and no offense to the elderly on this forum, but sometimes elderly people forget that they already fed their pet.  Or their pet is the only thing they have and they over feed it.  In this case, way over feed it. 

If some kind soul were to adopt this poor creature, they may need something like this drug.  This dog was so fat, I don't think it was able to walk.

However, I do think that the animal should have never got that fat.  Where were the elderly owner's relatives?  Then again, sometimes old people are so difficult.  Honestly, I think people who are "all there" should be ashamed to have ever caused their animal to become so fat.  It's not funny.  It's life threatening, but I do think there is a need for this drug.

If there is a need for the drug, it should be only in the most extreme cases.  Currently it is approved for dogs only 20 percent over their ideal body weight.  In those cases I definately think less food and more excercise would be the way to go.

ORIGINAL: sooner

Completely off topic, but:

ORIGINAL: sandra_slayton

I see this commercial on TV that Sally Fields does.  She talks about a friend talking about "having to take time out one morning a week" to  take her calcuim pill. Just how long does it take to take a pill.  The ad makes it sound like she she has to waste hours taking a pill.  Sally don't want to have to take time one morning a week, so she takes a monthly one.

They're talking about osteoporosis prescriptions though, not your normal everyday pill. Some of those have nasty side effects - severe heartburn, nausea and ulcers - among others. Some people can't sit or lay down for an hour or two after taking them. A monthly pill probably is more convienent for most sufferers.

Ohhh, I currently take a daily prescription (not osteoporosis) that has really bad affects like that.  Sometimes the affects last for a day or two!  Being able to take it weekly instead of daily would be great and they do make a weekly one but it has different side affects which are more harmful long term.