Did you know that the FDA approves first dog diet drug?

I have never heard of this and would not consider it either unless there was an actual medical reason not just a spoilt fat lazy owner mistreating their pet. Is it fair to give pet owners the chance not to exercise their dogs? I can hear it now, "oh I can't be bothered today I'll just give her this tablet instead, keeps her fit and healthy bless her" Overfed under exercised pets are actually being abused and it shortens their life span. If this is brought onto the market it needs to be strictly controlled by sensible vets who are certain the owners are doing their part in controlling their dogs weight.

I can say that I have never heard of this. Nor would I use this as a first option for either of my dogs. My beagle can over eat if I let her. But that would mean it would be my fault. And I do not want to be blamed for making my dog overweight! I love her too much to put that burden of weight on her back. Therefore, I do not have a dog feeder that allows a dog to eat as much anf whenever they want to. I am sure there are dogs out there that eat when they are bored...just like humans. It is said, that is a dog is bored they like to chew. Well, if the dog has nothing to chew on and knows that she will be killed if she destroys another pair of shoes (not really killed)...that dog may turn to eating...hence leading to being over weight. So, I would think that we would be more apt to diet and exercise for our dogs before we start feeding them a bunch of chemicals. But if as the last resort...I could possibly understand why a owner might use this route if everything else did not work.

The FDA are crooks

I have not heard of this at all. But, I doubt that I would go for it. I would just exercise and feed a low diet to the dog. And, not too many treats. I think that would be healthier.

I have never heard of it. I don't think I would want to try it either unless my dogs were very overweight to where it affected their health. I'm lucky, my dogs don't have a weight problem.

I saw that on the news. Diet pills don't usually work too well for people, no reason to believe they'll work on dogs either? Seems like it'd be alot easier to make a dog lose weight - just cut back their food or feed diet dog food and more exercise.

That is fabulous, I never knew this piece of information.

I heard of this on the news yesturday. Boy not even dogs have to exercise anymore.

I read about this in today's newspaper. I don't think it's a good idea at all -- less food and more exercise is really the safest way to help get an overweight dog back down to a healthy weight.