Hi guys, long time no see
I am here for advice if possible, about getting weight off podgster Clive. He is now 4 3/4 and was neutered a year ago. When we moved here in December 2007 he was very slight and gangly and around 13kg but he then piled on quite a lot of muscle tone and accordingly upped his weight.
But, the last 18 months I have struggled to keep it down and when I took him to the vets today he weighed in at 18.8kg
He looks padded and only has a slight waist, but he is a chunky build bone wise (rather than one of those fine boned cockers), but he HAS to get down at least to 15kg, preferably 14kg. His weight has been up and down over the last few months, but never by much.
He is fed on a largely RAW diet as it controls his colitis and the vet wants him to go on a prescription diet, but I want to try longer with raw to see if it's possible. I will go back to weighing absolutely everything and peeling as much fat off as I can, but already he is not on lamb (piles on the weight with that) and only gets cooked chicken or carrot sticks for training or bedtime treats (and then it is taken away from overall food).
I do think it is just a weight issue, on top of the neutering, not anything else healthwise. I can only give him so much veg to pad out or it flares up his colitis. Also he gets a very good amount of exercise, though he's not very active when at home.
When I have been very strict with portion size reduction he turns into a scavenging obsessed monster (I've even found him up on tables in the pub
)
Any thoughts or tips? Thanks guys.