@kill_you_soon_as_look: "<quote>
(snip)
When my ex-girlfriend had to take over care of Andy the mini-dachshund from 
her decrepit mother, the dog was in bad shape*. He was 15 years old and 
about 8 pounds overweight... doesn't sound like much, but on a mini's frame, 
that's a lot. His fat was puthering out over his shoulders and rear flanks. 
The nasty old ptitsa fed him a regular diet of cheese and roast beef. She 
was so decrepit the dog never got walked and he just shit and pissed all 
over the kitchen floor all the time.
We immediately put him on a dog food diet and we (meaning ME) exercised him 
regularly (walked 3X daily), but he was still FAT... and he WHEEZED. So we 
tried TRADER JOE'S LITE DOG FOOD.  About 1/2 cup in the morning and 1/2 cup 
mixed with 1/3 of a can of good wet dog food. In about 7 months the little 
fucker was in much better shape... not exactly svelte, but the fat rolls 
were gone.
He still got a Whopper every now and then. Lived another 2 years.
*Please note that in his entire first 15 years on the planet, this critter 
had NEVER been bathed.. the old lady and my girlfriend insisted "he didn't 
need to be bathed." I washed him one day in the bathroom sink, gave him a 
good drying and it was like the dog was a puppy again, skittering around and 
bouncing like a ferret.
Spoiled little monster wouldn't walk in the rain. Sat down and WOULD NOT 
MOVE until I picked him up and deposited him about 20 yards down the street."
    @cybercrunk: "<quote>
MOVE until I picked him up and deposited him about 20 yards down the street.
..are you sure his name ain't "BOB"?"
    @MissBinkyz: "On Jul 24, 4:51?pm, "Oprichnik SODDI" <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
Thanks for the Trader Joe's lite dog food tip, I will try that.
However, I can't help but be concerned that this could backfire
severely for Tabitha.  My dogs eat out of each other's bowls all the
time and I can just see Jack eating his lite dog food and saying to
himself "I'm still hungry" and then fighting Tabs for her more
palatable, high carb dog food, thus creating an even higher disparity
of weight distribution between the two.
She's already a skinny dog and I even toyed with the idea of
intentionally fattening her up so that she'd look more like him and he
wouldn't look so fat by comparison.  I thought it might help with his
self-esteem.
I posted some pics of the two of them <url>
so you can see my concern first hand.
Dachshund's really are genetic freaks.  When I got into bed last
night, they were both lying on my bed and when they're all relaxed
like that, you don't see their legs and they just look like giant,
hairy tubes with noses.
HHQ Miss Binky
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