Unfortunately, we are killing our pets <\/strong><\/em>with kindness by giving them what they want and more.<\/p>\n The Association for Pet Obesity Prevention noted that 94 million animals \u2013 53% of adult dogs and 55% of cats \u2013 are classified as obese or overweight according to veterinarians.\u00a0 However, many people seem unaware that their pets are overweight thinking their pets are fine how they are.<\/p>\n Obesity <\/strong><\/em>is now the leading health threat of pets, according to the founder of APOP, Dr. Ernie Ward.\u00a0 This is quite simple when obesity in pets is compared to that in humans.\u00a0 Obesity <\/strong><\/em>causes many problems such as arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and kidney disease.\u00a0 Not only will this easy to fix problem end up costing you hundreds to thousands of dollars in vet bills, it will also lower your pets life span.<\/p>\n The best way to defend your pet <\/strong><\/em>from obesity <\/strong><\/em>is to use a measuring cup.\u00a0 Most of the time, pet owners scoop up an unknown amount of dog or cat food for their pets and allow their pets to \u201cfree feed\u201d.\u00a0 To assist pet owners, you can visit www.petobesityprevention.com\/pet-weight-translator<\/a> to find your pet\u2019s optimum weight.<\/p>\n Just like humans, the best solution to preventing obesity is to exercise more and eat wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pudgy pets are unfortunately a common occurrence nowadays. Pet obesity is a surprisingly common problem in America \u2013 who can turn down those sweet begging brown eyes? Unfortunately, we are killing our pets with kindness by giving them what they want and more. The Association for Pet Obesity Prevention noted that 94 million animals \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[56,17,18,33,19,21,24,25,38,106,53,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}