Get Up And Do Something: Fat dogs, fat cats: Time for a ... pet obesity clinic?

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Fat dogs, fat cats: Time for a ... pet obesity clinic? Sep 15th 2012, 11:15 We are getting fat. And so are our cats and dogs -- it's estimated that 60% of them are overweight or just plain obese. Bring on the pet obesity clinics! Tufts University has opened one of the first, in Grafton, Mass. They say it is the only in the nation to be staffed by a full-time, board certified veterinary nutritionist. What goes on at a pet obesity clinic? Weight Watchers meetings? Treadmill exercises? Classes about how to fill the segments of MyPetPlate? (I made that up, but a Google search revealed that there is, in fact, a MyBowl for cats and dogs that was developed by PetMD and Hill's pet food.) We talked to Dr. Deborah E. Linder, the above-mentioned vet who will be running the place, to find out.

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