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Can your dog be loved too much by the treats that is made for dogs?
Can you love your pet too much? How can you love too much, anyway?
Giving your dog an extra treat or part of our food, truly loving them or spoiling them, does it honestly say, "I love your Betsy?" When the number one killer in America is obesity and is a real problem in children today or that is the information that comes to us from the latest surveys. Most of us pet lovers consider our dogs and cats to be our children. We say; Oh good boy or Oh good girl pet them and give them some type of treat, food as a reward. The question that has been tugging at the hearts of people and the minds for sometime is "Do we love our pets with a treat or food is it truly loves? Alternatively, are we helping them to be overweight and endangering their lives. Could we not find a different reward to let them how much they mean to our lives. In the dog parks, I look all around the park and what I normally see is if the owner is fit, so is their dog and if the owner has added weight, their dog does too. In America, we reward one way, another, or ourselves with food. We rationalize with such talent that lullabies our conscious to go to sleep so we can have that extra piece of pie as we hand little Betsy her treat. Who wants to eat alone anyway, and yes, the love is clear, maybe a little bit more food than necessary and she could be a bit spoiled. Those who say this have big smiles on their faces as they hug their pet. Your intentions are believed to be love. Your cherish that extra dessert and you want you dog to have all the good things you do, so they get that extra bit of food too. You ask yourself, what could it really hurt? You share with you dog, feeling that you love that dog more and in more ways, that anyone else could possibly know. I, for one, believe, yes, you do love your dog. Perhaps however, maybe instead of that extra piece of food or treat, try extra love pets or going an extra time to the dark park for your dog to run and play, might come to your dog as a much bigger reward. Loving your dog in other ways than food is worth considering. I do believe our dogs then will have longer lives so that we can love them more and they will suffer less with the diseases that comes with too much eating. Let's, love them to life; let's not love them to death. Sorry about the pun, but perhaps it is food for thought!

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