Never Let Your labrador Grow Fat!

Pet Care

oi-Staff

By Staff

Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 13:56

Beware if you are over pampering your pet dogs! You should be careful while feeding them. For, recently A Brit dog owner has been fined more than 1,100 pounds for letting his pet labrador get so fat that he weighed the same as a grown man.

Ben is now down to six-and-a-half stones and doing well. He's a beautiful, friendly dog but in 35 years. The 10-year-old dog weighed 70 kilos instead of the recommended 25, and also had an untreated wound on his neck.

NHS worker Melvyn Davies, 58, from Beaumaris in Anglesey, North Wales, has admitted to causing the 11st animal, known as Ben, unnecessary suffering. Magistrates at Holyhead fined Davies 1,170 pounds, plus 100 pounds costs. They deprived him of Ben, now looked after privately, but he escaped a blanket ban on keeping animals. But Davies has blamed Ben's short legs for his lack of exercise, saying they caused him to balloon in size.