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What is it with elderly people overfeeding their pets? I hear a lot of people say how cute overweight animals look, but I don't see anything cute about it, just a very miserable animal.
http://shine.yahoo.com/pets/world-s-fattest-dachshund-put-on-biggest-loser-style-program.html
Cue up the "pig in a blanket" jokes – a 70-pound wiener dog, a Dachshund named Obie, is going on a major diet to try to slim down.
The average Dachshund has a maximum weight of 32 pounds; five-year-old Obie (who used to be called AJ; we assume the "Obie" nickname is short for "obese" – aw, poor guy) weighs more than twice that, topping out at 77 pounds when new owner Nora Vanatta met him last month. (That's seven times what a Miniature Dachshund would weigh.)
His previous owners, an older couple, had to give Obie up because of their own declining health, but thanks to what must have been expert begging by the dog, they'd managed to feed him almost to death in the meantime...
http://shine.yahoo.com/pets/world-s-fattest-dachshund-put-on-biggest-loser-style-program.html