Do not worry, I am not going have yet another go at portly racist Jade Goody, I think she is still in India, so she probably isn’t keeping up to date with I Am Livid anyway.
I read a news article recently about an altogether different type of fat bitch. Slimming pills are nothing new. They have been on the market for many years, and are normally bought – by the truckload – by people too lazy to hit the treadmill for a few hours a week. They are cheating.
However I am struggling to see the market for slimming pills for dogs? If your dog is fat, feed it less, and take it for a walk every now and again. You would be amazed how many calories it can use up by scaring small children round a local park. Surely fattening it up, only to give it slimming pills is a form of animal cruelty? It is not as if a dog can open or tin or order a pizza is it? You can’t blame the dog (though if I had a dog that could pop down to the kebab shop for me, I would probably be happy to let it get fat as well).
As the Vet in the article says, “If owners knew that obese dogs die up to two years earlier than lean weight dogs, it would get them to sit up and think.”
I do not know if this is dog years or real years, though two dog years is only like a couple of weeks (probably), so I guess they mean real human years. Plus, I don’t think ‘sitting up and thinking about it’ is going to help. Sitting up right only burns marginally more calories than lying down. They need to actually get off their arses and walk their bloody dogs.
They say people resemble their dogs, so I would imagine that there is a strong correlation between fat dogs and fat dog owners. Maybe this new pill is being secretly aimed at dog owners as it is cheaper than the human alternative? Fat people can be very sneaky like that. Especially with cakes and burgers.
Do you have a fat dog and are you a fatty too?
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I was quite interested in the phrase
“Vet Grant Petrie said obesity was a problem for between 20-40% of the domestic canine population. ”
A percentage margin that big generally means the person is full of shit and taking a guess, 20% is a fair number of dogs. I suggest the BBC hires a proper expert, this is worse than the time they hired an expert on tropical diseases to comment on the new drinking laws in britain.
I’m thinking of getting a really, really slim dog … like a whippet … in the hopes that it will rub off on me.
The way that drug works sounds very similar to the human anti-fat pill.
I forget the name of it but remember it causes anal seepage. Lovely.
i think they call it killing with kindness and its bloody cruel i cant understand these muppets who have dogs and then say oh well its always hungry and doesnt like walking (?) so any way …… (go i do go on dont i?)
How fucking ridiculous!
Dogs may love their food, but they also love exercise.
These owners are a bunch of lazy cunts.
Sorry, too busy being a “Fat Cat GP” to own a dog, let alone have the time to walk one, what with all the time I now have to spend on the Golf Course and polishing the Bentley. And our two rescue Moggies are still quite svelte and lissome thank you.
(Though they did pork up a bit after a weekend in the cattery now you come to mention it.)
No and No
and i don’t understand the english obsession with allowing such stinky animals in their homes, sitting on their sofas, on their beds.. yuk yuk yuk
Angry – Why don’t we tie obese dogs to the back of a car before driving off at 10-15mph for half an hour? It’d be great exercise for the dog and you can go the offie while you’re at it.
I’m going to make millions out of this.
B.
Can you imagine anything worse than a dog with anal seepage? It’d constantly be dragging it’s arse over your shag pile carpet!
It is sad that there is so much pressure on dogs today to be thin that they are resorting to diet pills. Imagine it: having live up to some sort of unrealistic ideal in which you must rush around rescuing people from wells whilst trying to fit into a size zero collar. What is society coming to?
No and no.
Betty – best response to a post ever – FACT
Oli – you mean you don’t believe everything you read on the Internet?
Clarissa – Is “rub off on me” a euphamisnm?
Fussy Bitch – A bit like Guinness then?
Ellie – The pill is not aimed at fat dogs, it’s aimed at lazy owners…
Betty – Indeed they are
Dr J – Rescue Moggies? How cool!! Do they climb mountains and run into burning buildings and stuff?
me – I am with you, not a dog or a cat fan. Unless they are Rescue moggies like those above.
Badger – Your pet walking service is taking off then?
fatman – I do not even want to think about that
Léonie – You are right, peer pressure amongst dogs is bad enough without the media adding to their already stressful lives.
Celeste – Good, and er, good.
EP – You didn’t feel like competing for the title then?
Nope, I am also a lazy cunt (although I don’t have a dog)
Have no dog (any longer), but the two I’ve had were both beeyewtiful and slim fanks, as am I naturally.
However, I’m more pleased that on the little Firefox tab, this comments section comes up as: I am livid >> You Fat Bitch! I just love being virtually insulted at by my browser on a Thursday morning!
Hmmm. Take it as you will … and so will I.
Eminem and lots of other rappers have dogs or are they bitches. Maybe we should aks those mothers for an insight.
No, and kinda…but only just slightly in the bum area.
My grandma has a dog though. Little Mikey IS a bit bottom heavy and I think both of them could stand to go for a long walk. Though, judging by the size of their bums and the look of their nails, I think they both prefer an afternoon spent at the salon, getting a manicure and pedicure.
No fat dog, no dog at all in fact. I’m hoping I’m not fat, do need to run more but with all this damn snow and ice and dark…hoping the weather looks up next week! Actually most people in NY are pretty fit, it’s interesting b/c I used to live in Memphis and most people there were fat. They should feed crawfish, catfish, and chickens slimming pills so the pills would inadvertantly be eaten by those strange, strange southerners..could probably just through some in the vats of oil that everything is fried in down there. I feel a post on the horridness that is southern food coming on, hmmmmmmm
Uh “throw” not “through”
Sorry, I was up very late last night so I’m not really paying attention to anything really
Thank you Equine Pimp.
Sometimes “cunt” is the only word that suits, huh.
Maybe related to only fat people drink diet coke, Maybe if they drank regular coke they would shed weight. Just a thought…..
There is a programme on tv now (11.21 pm on channel 115 on sky.. BBC3) A full programme about dogs and diets!!
Maybe dogs can’t fetch a kebab for you yet, but they’ve already learned to withdraw money from a cash machine.
Barklays
It’s only a matter of time…
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