July 12, 2025 • 24 mins
Hot Dog Summer!! What to do if your fur baby needs to go on a diet!! Tips and tricks to do it safely!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome to the Down with Dogs podcast. It is
Courtney and Lauren, two best friends, two crazy dog moms,
chatting about yeah, dogs, all things dogs. All right, cheers
because we always do cheers before every podcast because that's
what we do when we want to talk about our
fur babies. So cheers, cheers, Hot and dirty Martini's all around.
(00:22):
Take a little sippy because we're getting ready to dive
right into it. Oh, this is gonna be a great episode.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I would just like to do a quick Charlie update.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, not yes, not only do we need a Charlie update,
but I want to know how the fireworks went for you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Okay, so Charlie is back in full of fact. He's
doing very very well, beautiful, he's all good. Okay, so
we've got some solid poops and he's.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Can I just tell you it's so funny, like if
you're a dog mom and your friends are dog moms,
you like, I guess it's like we don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So it's like having your kids.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, it's like moms actually calling each other going, did
your child to have a good poo today? You know
they still have diarrhea. We talk about how good your
dog's poop is and so Charlie's had really good poops
and he's back on his normal food.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
He is back on his normal diet. Okay, he's doing great.
So I'm super happy that he is back to himself
again because that was not fun yep, and probably less
fun for him.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And I need a fireworks update as well, because obviously
we're just coming out of the Fourth of July and
our last podcast was how to prep your dog for,
you know, the Fourth of July fireworks and all that.
And I know when I talked to you said, all right,
before the fireworks, You're like, I'm taking the dot, the
three dogs, Allie, Charlie, and Gracie out into the yard
(01:42):
and I'm going to make him run their asses off,
because that's like number one on the list. Get him
tired before the fireworks.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, and I did do that. They ran around, they
were outside all day and.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was fine.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And let me just say this too, it's not the
town fireworks that is the issue.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's the people.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's it's the neighborhood people's people.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And it started about eleven am with people setting off
m eighties.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What why would you do? You can't that's not legal.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
M eighties are legal, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But they were like eighties, you know what. They were sparklers.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They were not sparklers. They were loud and they were
like eighties. And so.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It wasn't that frequent during the day, but it was
a pop here and a pop there, which of course
caused Charlie to get in the bathtub and start shaking
and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you put am So this is what I used
to do because my I had a great day, and
that would do the same thing. You'd jump in the bathtub,
but I'd have to make sure there was like a
squishy bath mat in there, otherwise he'd be like, you know,
sliding all over the place. Well I have a bath mat, okay, perfect,
So he jumps in, he.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Jumps in whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So Alie, who has been unbothered by fireworks, I love him.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He wasn't necessarily like, he wasn't shaking and scared. But
he has a very He's got the typical papion bark,
which is this really high pitched bark.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
All day long for no reason. I call her on
the phone and I can't even talk to her because
Allie's like run around the top of his lungs.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He is a barker, so that was a problem. I
did not get a good night's sleep that night. I
was exhausted because every time somebody lit off a firework,
Ollie would jump off the bed, run around the house.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Start barking and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So Ollie's barking like a madman, but not necessarily like
super stressed, where like, you know, Charlie's in the bathtub,
Allie's more like, you know, hey, there's something going on.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There's a noise.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, Charlie's in the bathtub. Is he shaking? Drooling? He
was bulging like a leaf.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So even before it got dark, he was sitting on
my lap just shaking.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh my god, I know. It's very sad, poor Charlie.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And then what is Gracie doing.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Gracie is hiding under my computer desk.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Is she shaking as well? Or she just like, you know,
I'm just chilling here because there's something going on.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
She shakes and she drools, so she's got the combo
of the shaking and the drooling.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So it was not fun, and it has continued on
and it's going to continue on.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
People don't know not to set off fireworks. I would
like to go back to the days when they were illegal,
but it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So on one of my dog sites on Facebook, I
was reading scrolling through, and one woman had said, you know,
I did with a I don't know where she read
at the kennel club or something, said that when the
fireworks are coming, take your dog out and go for
a walk while the fireworks are going off. She's like,
I walked my dog and I brought treats, and that
(04:48):
I would stop and the fireworks would go off, and
then we'd turn around and just keep making it fun.
And by the time I got home at a quarter
of ten or ten o'clock at night, my dog was fine.
And I'm thinking that is the exact opposite.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know who told her to do this, the
worst idea ever.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Listen, If you are in one hundred percent control of
your dog at all times, fine, try it. Here's the
problem when you go out during the fireworks like this
woman didn't. She was telling everybody do it next time.
I'm like, oh my god, this is the worst advice.
If you don't have one hundred percent control of your
dog and you're outside and it's pitch dark and fireworks
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are going off and they're freaking out, and you lose
control or the dog slips out of his collar, you're screwed.
That is like the worst advice I.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Would agree with that. I think that's the worst advice ever.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It is the worst advice.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I got all three of my babies in my bed, yeah,
and I just was like, no.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I let them out for.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
The last out of the night at like seven thirty,
which is not typical for summer, right because it's light
out longer, so I like to let them out later.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
But I was like, nope, we're gonna just keep them.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I have a small dog yard and then I have
the big yard, and I didn't let them out into
the big yard, just a small dog yard.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And it was like, let's go pee snacks, bedtime.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And I was gonna say something, but I said, you
know what, I'm gonna reserve my comments because I get
a little chitty chatty and I'll just do it on
the podcast and I'll talk with Lauren and she'll agree
with me exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I do agree with you.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay a Jackson update my bow warn't he just turned eleven?
Yay Jackson anyway, turn eleven. He got a treat and
a walk and like, you know, not a treat. I
shouldn't say a treat. He's got IBD. He got no treats.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He gottah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'll walk in a new toy, but I will say
he's doing great on his new food. But this is weird.
I hope we're not going into an IBD flare. So
dogs dog moms with dogs with IVD or dog dads
with dogs with IBD. Let me know. My dog is
not a cuddler. He sleeps at the foot of the bed.
He ignores me when he goes to bed. Don't touch him.
(06:49):
Two o'clock this morning, he gets up, he walks up
to me. He does that whole circle thing and lies
down and we are spooning. Oh my god, he's eleven,
eleven years. This dog is never spooned with me. And
I know your dogs are like one under one arm,
one under the other. They're like all over you they are.
(07:11):
So he lies down next to me. It's two in
the morning, and I feel him right next to me
like we're spooning him, like, oh my god, don't touch him,
don't move, don't distruct him like don't even breathe. I'm hyperventilating,
So I'm like, I don't wanted to get up and move.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He stayed that way.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Until seven o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Was fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, my Allie, I would say, is the biggest cuddler.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, of all of them.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So for you dog parents where your dogs cuddle with you,
just know that there are some dog parents out there
and the dogs don't cuddle and it's freaking everything. When
it happens, I love it. And then he got up
in the morning and he didn't want to eat his breakfast.
I said, ah, no, wonder you were cuddling him. They
to get a belly ache, but he seems fine, so
I'm not going to delve into that anyway. Today's episode,
(07:55):
I'm super excited. I was at your house. How many
tis not exciting? I know well, and we've discussed this
and you told me she was fluffy, and I said, no,
she's a little more than fluffy.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But doctor do Rico said she was perfect. Wait doctoro
co for cocoa. She's not.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
She was right anyway. Shout out to VCA Valley Yay,
best bets ever. We use the same vet clinic, different
vets same vet clinic, and we love them. They're fabulous.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well I don't have I can't get in with doctor
Fernaro anymore because you have taken all of her appointments.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Doctor Fernaro's probably dry. I should ask her next time,
are you driving a beamer by nat? Did I pay
for the Porsche? Because I'm there all the time with.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
My dog her condo in Florida, she probably is whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Shout out to doctor Fernaro. But Gracie, last time I went,
I thought, okay, she's looking a little thick. Because I
believe that if you have a pet, you should at
least be able to see their waste, like see an
outline of a waste.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Right, Yes, you are supposed to be right. Oh, you
are correct. I didn't and you're supposed to see the.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Outline of a waste. And I also think you should
be able to when you run your hands down and
really push in, you should be able to feel a
couple of ribs. Yes, you shouldn't see the ribs, but
you should be able to feel the ribs. And so
last time I was at your house, Gracie was a footstool.
There was no there was head neck, there was no
(09:22):
definition for anything, and she kind of looked like a
what is it an automan? Is that what you put
your feet on? Yeah, she looked like an automan. So anyway,
last time you went, I know, doctor Jurico said she
was fine. But then the last time you went, they
said she needs to go on a diet. So today's
episode is called Hot Dog Summer and we're putting Gracy
on a diet.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh, poor Grace.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And I put some great tips on if you want
to put your a lot of people need to put
their dogs on diets, you gotta be.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You have to be very very Oh okay, you know what,
I think.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I went to hold it because it was annoying problems.
It hit me in the boob most action had had
in probably ten years. And that's the truth. Anyway, anyway,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I took her in because she was due for her
Raby's vaccination. Okay, So I took her in for her
Raby's vaccination and they weighed her. So when she was
weighed by doctor Durico, she was fourteen pounds and.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That was the first time she was weighed when I
thought she was overweight, but Drico.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Said she was perfect.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Fourteen pounds was perfect, okay, she said, if anybody's overweight, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Charlie and me and your friend Courtney and me.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
So they put her on the scale and she weighed
eighteen pounds.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Okay, So in this the scheme of things, just so
we can paint the picture. When it comes to a person,
you're like four pounds, I just have to go pee
and takapoo, and I'm fine, right, But when it's a dog,
four pounds is a lot. And when it's a dog,
Gracie's size, she's the size of a shoe box.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
She's not that small, but she's tiny.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
She's tiny.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, she's right around that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Like, four pounds is a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just to give you an idea.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
When I rescued her, I think she weighed seven or
yeahund she was skin and bone, she was bonk. So
I overcompensate with food. Show my love with food.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Sometimes when Lauren looks thin, I'm like, can you come over?
And then I try to feed her bread, bread and
pasta whatever, And I love bread and pasta. I know.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So she's now up to gain four pounds, and so
doctor da Rico says, you've got to go take her
put her on a diet.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Wasn't doctor d Rico. It was the person the vet
who whatever. Sorry doctor d Rico, I didn't come to
you for her vaccine.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Whatever, put her on a diet. So let's get to
the hot dog summer, which is and a lot of
people have a hard time. How do I get my
dog to lose weight? And they're going to sit there
and beg for food twenty four to seven. Yeah, so
she's been on a diet for a couple of days.
Now what are you doing to get her to drop
the poundage?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
The LB's Oh I feel so badly to once again
blame my mother. Okay, but Linda lu was giving me
a really hard time when she would stay with the
dogs for me.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, Linda Lou also said that Allie needed to gain weight,
and I agree she was right. She was right, And
I was telling Linda Lou shout out to Linda Lolo.
I was telling Lauren the same thing, and she was like,
he's perfect. I'm like, he needs a little weight, but
he did so he did. He gained weight.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So Linda Lou says, I wasn't feeding any of them enoff.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh that's not right. Okay, Sorry, I lost John that
because the other two were fatties.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And of course when I was like, I show my
love with treats.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So do I. If you're single and you've got salt
and pepper, haire, and you're a man with a dog,
I will cook for you. But go ahead, Lauren.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
In the meantime, she's cooking for me, I know.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So I upped their food, which was very beneficial.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
For Ali and okay, but so when Allie needs to
gain weight, you're upping food for all three dogs. But
what was the thinking behind that?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Because I don't want them to be upset thinking that
I'm not gonna know that one dog has more food
in a dishy, okay, And so of course when I
would go to work every morning, they would get treats,
and so we had all the treats.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That was a big problem.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, So now are you doing to get reel it
in for Gracie but not the other two? The other
two are perfect.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So I've gone back to their all across the boards,
all of their regular meals, meals of so Gracie was
getting a third cup of food twice a day and
Ollie was getting more than that. But I brought him
back to his regular because now he's gained the weight.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, so he's good.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So she's gone back and there's not nearly as many treats.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, I've also okay, no, no, no, I'm just trying
to like figure. So you've decided to cut back on
food for all three.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, Ollie and Charlie are going back to their.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Regular Okay, she's getting cut back.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
She got cut back a little bit, less treats for
all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Less treats perfect.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And she's spent a ton of time outside, so she's
just running around the backyard getting a little ex exercise.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Okay, okay, which is perfect. Then you've gotta go slow
and steady. You can't starve them. So anyway, exercise is
the number one thing if your dog needs to lose weight.
Exercise is the number one thing. Before you even cut
anything back. Think am I walking my.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Dog every day?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Or if you've got small dogs like Lauren, are we
doing playtime? Not just they're walking around, like throw a ball,
like actually play with them. And I would also say
that you could always if you think your dog has
some sort of health issue, check with a VAT. You
don't want to take a hugely overweight dog and be like,
we're gonna go on a ten mile hike because you're
gonna do more damage. Correct, like literally slow and steady,
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like if you don't walk your dog, but your dog
needs to lose weight, five minutes, five minutes of playtime,
five minutes a walk time.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I have increased the playtime as well.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Which is perfect because sometimes I know your dogs are
out and she's got a decent size yards very large.
They walk around, but they do it every day. It's
like a president's like I walk the treadmill ten minutes
every day. I'm not losing weight. Okay, we'll increase it
to fifteen or right, So to throw paul or play
with a and let them just like run it out,
get it out.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
She plays with her pink pigball. So we've been doing
a lot of catching.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Which is absolutely perfect. So exercise and playtime huge. The
other thing is they're saying just that I looked up
today three meals a day. Now my dog gets four,
but whatever, So three meals a day for a dog
that's gonna lose weight, cut out all treats, give them breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. If you're afraid to give them three meals
(15:28):
a day. You can take that whatever it is, that
lunch meal and use that as treats. Take their regular
food and give it to miss treats throughout the day.
Your dogs get two meals, two two meals a day, okay,
so you could take some of her dinner or some
of her breakfast and use that as like little treats
throughout the day. I could, is what they said, what
you can do, cause I know I've gone to Lawrence
House before, and let me tell you, I have dog envy.
(15:50):
I walk in and she's got thirty five different types
of treats. Like I'm like, are you giving your dog?
This's like literally bags of treats everywhere. My dog gets
unsalted saltines with his IBD. So you could take one
of her meals or some food from her breakfast and
dinner and use it as treats throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
When I'm home, they don't get treats. Okay, it's only
when I leave the house. So maybe you should start
leaving the house house a little more.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Show I leave the house more, they're gonna get more SATs.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh yeah that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, sorry, Well, now say it's summer I'm not working
right now.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And they also say, so if your dog is a
type of dog like you've all of a sudden cut
down on their food and they're super hungry and they're
begging and begging and begging and countersurfing, to actually take
a little bit of their kibble out and replace it
with pumpkin because the pumpkin is low calorie, low fat,
and it will fill them up. Okay, my dog's butt
would explode because he's allergic to pumpkin, but just keep
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that in mind.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So right, they my dogs don't beg for food ever.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay, they do, well, that's because they're fat and they're
getting treats twenty four to seven. Literally, they get two
meals a day, that's it, but treats all day long.
Of course they're gonna beg.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Of course I would.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I I beg at your house when I'm there too.
She's got snacks central, so when I go to your house,
I beg as well. Let's get rid of the snacks
and the trees.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I getting rid of the snacks.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And then then lastly, if your dog is gaining weight,
I would suggest a vet visit. If you know, hey,
I haven't changed the food, the dog's still getting exercise,
I haven't increased the treats. Then I would actually go
to the vet because a lot of dogs and this
is when I saw Gracie. I thought she had a
thyroid issue. I know, but you can have your dog
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check for a thyroid issue. They could have Cushing's disease,
which is a pituitary thing. There's just like a human.
They can gain weight for so many reasons. But also
your dog could be on prednazone for some reason.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They could have diabetes, diabetes, all of them.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So I would like, if you're like I exercise my
dog every day, I'm not increasing treats. I haven't increased
the food, but my dog is gaining an enormous amount
of weight. Go see your vet first, because there's so
many underlying medical issues that could be causing it. That's
not like lack of exercise and too much food.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Gracie is just her mommy fed.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And can I say I would agree with that because
I go over there, just like Lauren and Jackson. Come here,
it's Chewy delivering his food. I swear to God, he's
looked out the window. It's literally it is Chewy in
my driveway delivering his food. So shout out to Chewy
as well, pure in el that's what he eats. But yes,
I totally agree on that. Like hers was like just
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food related and it's got to be difficult. And I've
got to want Jack come get over here right now. Jack,
I have three she has one not come. He knows
not to come in when mummy's working. Okay, he wants
to come. But when it comes to somebody who's got
more than one dog, Jackson, come, he.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Doesn't want to come to you right now. He wants
to come to me.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
People that have more than one dog, that I guess
that is the stress. The stress is how do you
put one dog? How do you put one dog on
a diet? And not all of them? And so for me,
I only have one dog, I have to worry about it.
But I would cut down that one dog's food breakfast
and dinner because they don't know what's in their dishes.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Well, Gracie, Gracie has been cut back. The other two
are back on their regular diet. So how much do
you does Gracie need to lose? And when should we do?
The way in the hot dog check in, I mean
she definitely needs to lose those four pounds.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I feel like we should google. And we're not venarians,
by the way. No, not that I feel like we
should know. We should google. How long should it take
to safely lose four pounds? For a dog? Four pounds
is a lot, I know it is. That's what I'm saying. Like,
I don't expect her to lose four pounds by the
next time we do our podcast, but let me just
say that we.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Need to use I don't want you guys to think
that I am not a good dog mom.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Gracie is happy, she is healthy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
She's just chunky, being a good dog mom making sure
they're out a healthy weight. So I didn't know she
was no four pounds. I'm saying, you're a good dog man.
She's putting her on a diet. I say her healthy.
Especially dogs with little tiny legs. Can you Gracie's legs
are that big? Can you imagine carrying all that extra weight.
I know what it is like for me when I'm
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like five pounds up. I can't even walk around. I'm
five to two. She's gonna be like dragging around. I
don't know, it's a lot. I'm for her it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I'm questioning that it was four pounds, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, it's a good question because she's also tons of
fur on her. She's like your hand, you put your
hand in because all these years a big Laura I
think Gracie Music on a die said she's just fluffy,
and I would put my hand in, My hand would disappear.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
She is a fluffy little girl, disappear with all of
the fur and fluff she had. Doctor DaRico used to
always laugh about it because she's like her fur is
so normal right here, and then you get down to
her hind quarters and it's like all curly and stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So what I would also say, if you have no problem,
Lauren does, but if you don't have a problem, shaving
your dog. And that's what I did with my dog,
was going through IBD because he's a labordoodal and he
can be like a rosta dog in like three weeks. Yeah,
keep their coat really short so you can see what's happening,
and you see what's going on. Like dogs with big
full fur coats, you have no idea. You shave them
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down one day and they could be skin and bones,
so they could be fat. You don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I know, but papions are supposed to have their further
fur is necessary.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I know, but it might not be necessary why she's
on a diet. I'm just saying, if it's not a
papion and you really want to take control of like
seeing what's going on, have them like trimmed down enough
where you could see like, oh, there's a waste, Like pick.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Her up in a hugger. Okay, I love on her.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
That's that's all you need to do.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
But I will. I will definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I'm hoping between now and maybe the next podcast that
she is down.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Maybe a pound. Okay, that's what I'm that's the week.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It's like a pound a week, which I think. I
feel like that's a really really good goal.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think a pound would be excellent.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
All right, Well that's it. That's all we got is
hot dog summer. If your dog needs to go on
a diet, I would say, exercise playtime is like key,
and then you can take a little kibble out of
their meals and still give them treats, or eliminate the
treats and take some of the kible out of their
meals as treats. That would be what I would do. Unfortunately,
(22:23):
my dog actually probably needs to gain weight with his
IBD flair. Yep, you know I would.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes a dog with IBD. It's such a juggle with,
Like my dog needs to gain weight, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well we're gonna she's working, she's gonna run around, she's
gonna get some playtime, exercise.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I love her, We snuggle.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Do you know what else that I have for you
that I'm gonna send you home with? Is they said
games like brain games? Yes, so I feel like if
you don't want to go outside it's summer and it's hot,
and she's a little furry dog, you could do brain
games with and they would actually caust them to lose
weight or whatever something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
All right, Well, listen, I'm getting ready to fire up
the grill, so Lorden and I can gain a little
more weight.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
God like I need it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The sad thing is Burger's on the grill. My dog
is gonna sit there, and I'm gonna feel so horrible
because he cannot eat meat. He can't have burger or
chicken or fish or anything or rabbit or ostrich or
kangaroo or kangaroo or whatever, but listen. Thank you so
much for listening to the podcast Down with Dogs, two
BFFs chatting about their dogs. Shout out if you're watching
(23:35):
us on TikTok on YouTube. We're also on Instagram. It's
called Down with Dogs and with Dogs. Any topic you want.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Us to cover, yeah, just post it right, yeah, post
is I'm not savvy with this.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Social media stuci, so in the comments or slide into
my DMS if you are cute and a man in
single and I.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Just anybody slide into her DMS at this point, she'd be.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I would be through. Would So let us know what
you want us to talk about and we will catch you.
On the next podcast, Hot Dog Summer, we'll see if
Gracie has dropped a couple pounds.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
One pound, one pound, one week, one pound.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Check in is coming up. Thanks guys, thanks for watching.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Bye,
Hey, welcome to the Down with Dogs podcast. It is
Courtney and Lauren, two best friends, two crazy dog moms,
chatting about yeah, dogs, all things dogs. All right, cheers
because we always do cheers before every podcast because that's
what we do when we want to talk about our
fur babies. So cheers, cheers, Hot and dirty Martini's all around.
(00:22):
Take a little sippy because we're getting ready to dive
right into it. Oh, this is gonna be a great episode.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I would just like to do a quick Charlie update.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, not yes, not only do we need a Charlie update,
but I want to know how the fireworks went for you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Okay, so Charlie is back in full of fact. He's
doing very very well, beautiful, he's all good. Okay, so
we've got some solid poops and he's.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Can I just tell you it's so funny, like if
you're a dog mom and your friends are dog moms,
you like, I guess it's like we don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So it's like having your kids.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, it's like moms actually calling each other going, did
your child to have a good poo today? You know
they still have diarrhea. We talk about how good your
dog's poop is and so Charlie's had really good poops
and he's back on his normal food.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
He is back on his normal diet. Okay, he's doing great.
So I'm super happy that he is back to himself
again because that was not fun yep, and probably less
fun for him.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And I need a fireworks update as well, because obviously
we're just coming out of the Fourth of July and
our last podcast was how to prep your dog for,
you know, the Fourth of July fireworks and all that.
And I know when I talked to you said, all right,
before the fireworks, You're like, I'm taking the dot, the
three dogs, Allie, Charlie, and Gracie out into the yard
(01:42):
and I'm going to make him run their asses off,
because that's like number one on the list. Get him
tired before the fireworks.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, and I did do that. They ran around, they
were outside all day and.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was fine.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And let me just say this too, it's not the
town fireworks that is the issue.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's the people.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's it's the neighborhood people's people.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And it started about eleven am with people setting off
m eighties.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What why would you do? You can't that's not legal.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
M eighties are legal, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But they were like eighties, you know what. They were sparklers.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They were not sparklers. They were loud and they were
like eighties. And so.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It wasn't that frequent during the day, but it was
a pop here and a pop there, which of course
caused Charlie to get in the bathtub and start shaking
and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you put am So this is what I used
to do because my I had a great day, and
that would do the same thing. You'd jump in the bathtub,
but I'd have to make sure there was like a
squishy bath mat in there, otherwise he'd be like, you know,
sliding all over the place. Well I have a bath mat, okay, perfect,
So he jumps in, he.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Jumps in whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So Alie, who has been unbothered by fireworks, I love him.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He wasn't necessarily like, he wasn't shaking and scared. But
he has a very He's got the typical papion bark,
which is this really high pitched bark.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
All day long for no reason. I call her on
the phone and I can't even talk to her because
Allie's like run around the top of his lungs.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He is a barker, so that was a problem. I
did not get a good night's sleep that night. I
was exhausted because every time somebody lit off a firework,
Ollie would jump off the bed, run around the house.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Start barking and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So Ollie's barking like a madman, but not necessarily like
super stressed, where like, you know, Charlie's in the bathtub,
Allie's more like, you know, hey, there's something going on.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There's a noise.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, Charlie's in the bathtub. Is he shaking? Drooling? He
was bulging like a leaf.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So even before it got dark, he was sitting on
my lap just shaking.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh my god, I know. It's very sad, poor Charlie.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And then what is Gracie doing.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Gracie is hiding under my computer desk.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Is she shaking as well? Or she just like, you know,
I'm just chilling here because there's something going on.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
She shakes and she drools, so she's got the combo
of the shaking and the drooling.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So it was not fun, and it has continued on
and it's going to continue on.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
People don't know not to set off fireworks. I would
like to go back to the days when they were illegal,
but it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So on one of my dog sites on Facebook, I
was reading scrolling through, and one woman had said, you know,
I did with a I don't know where she read
at the kennel club or something, said that when the
fireworks are coming, take your dog out and go for
a walk while the fireworks are going off. She's like,
I walked my dog and I brought treats, and that
(04:48):
I would stop and the fireworks would go off, and
then we'd turn around and just keep making it fun.
And by the time I got home at a quarter
of ten or ten o'clock at night, my dog was fine.
And I'm thinking that is the exact opposite.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know who told her to do this, the
worst idea ever.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Listen, If you are in one hundred percent control of
your dog at all times, fine, try it. Here's the
problem when you go out during the fireworks like this
woman didn't. She was telling everybody do it next time.
I'm like, oh my god, this is the worst advice.
If you don't have one hundred percent control of your
dog and you're outside and it's pitch dark and fireworks
(05:25):
are going off and they're freaking out, and you lose
control or the dog slips out of his collar, you're screwed.
That is like the worst advice I.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Would agree with that. I think that's the worst advice ever.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It is the worst advice.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I got all three of my babies in my bed, yeah,
and I just was like, no.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I let them out for.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
The last out of the night at like seven thirty,
which is not typical for summer, right because it's light
out longer, so I like to let them out later.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
But I was like, nope, we're gonna just keep them.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I have a small dog yard and then I have
the big yard, and I didn't let them out into
the big yard, just a small dog yard.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And it was like, let's go pee snacks, bedtime.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And I was gonna say something, but I said, you
know what, I'm gonna reserve my comments because I get
a little chitty chatty and I'll just do it on
the podcast and I'll talk with Lauren and she'll agree
with me exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I do agree with you.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay a Jackson update my bow warn't he just turned eleven?
Yay Jackson anyway, turn eleven. He got a treat and
a walk and like, you know, not a treat. I
shouldn't say a treat. He's got IBD. He got no treats.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He gottah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'll walk in a new toy, but I will say
he's doing great on his new food. But this is weird.
I hope we're not going into an IBD flare. So
dogs dog moms with dogs with IVD or dog dads
with dogs with IBD. Let me know. My dog is
not a cuddler. He sleeps at the foot of the bed.
He ignores me when he goes to bed. Don't touch him.
(06:49):
Two o'clock this morning, he gets up, he walks up
to me. He does that whole circle thing and lies
down and we are spooning. Oh my god, he's eleven,
eleven years. This dog is never spooned with me. And
I know your dogs are like one under one arm,
one under the other. They're like all over you they are.
(07:11):
So he lies down next to me. It's two in
the morning, and I feel him right next to me
like we're spooning him, like, oh my god, don't touch him,
don't move, don't distruct him like don't even breathe. I'm hyperventilating,
So I'm like, I don't wanted to get up and move.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He stayed that way.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Until seven o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Was fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, my Allie, I would say, is the biggest cuddler.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, of all of them.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So for you dog parents where your dogs cuddle with you,
just know that there are some dog parents out there
and the dogs don't cuddle and it's freaking everything. When
it happens, I love it. And then he got up
in the morning and he didn't want to eat his breakfast.
I said, ah, no, wonder you were cuddling him. They
to get a belly ache, but he seems fine, so
I'm not going to delve into that anyway. Today's episode,
(07:55):
I'm super excited. I was at your house. How many
tis not exciting? I know well, and we've discussed this
and you told me she was fluffy, and I said, no,
she's a little more than fluffy.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But doctor do Rico said she was perfect. Wait doctoro
co for cocoa. She's not.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
She was right anyway. Shout out to VCA Valley Yay,
best bets ever. We use the same vet clinic, different
vets same vet clinic, and we love them. They're fabulous.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well I don't have I can't get in with doctor
Fernaro anymore because you have taken all of her appointments.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Doctor Fernaro's probably dry. I should ask her next time,
are you driving a beamer by nat? Did I pay
for the Porsche? Because I'm there all the time with.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
My dog her condo in Florida, she probably is whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Shout out to doctor Fernaro. But Gracie, last time I went,
I thought, okay, she's looking a little thick. Because I
believe that if you have a pet, you should at
least be able to see their waste, like see an
outline of a waste.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Right, Yes, you are supposed to be right. Oh, you
are correct. I didn't and you're supposed to see the.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Outline of a waste. And I also think you should
be able to when you run your hands down and
really push in, you should be able to feel a
couple of ribs. Yes, you shouldn't see the ribs, but
you should be able to feel the ribs. And so
last time I was at your house, Gracie was a footstool.
There was no there was head neck, there was no
(09:22):
definition for anything, and she kind of looked like a
what is it an automan? Is that what you put
your feet on? Yeah, she looked like an automan. So anyway,
last time you went, I know, doctor Jurico said she
was fine. But then the last time you went, they
said she needs to go on a diet. So today's
episode is called Hot Dog Summer and we're putting Gracy
on a diet.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh, poor Grace.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And I put some great tips on if you want
to put your a lot of people need to put
their dogs on diets, you gotta be.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You have to be very very Oh okay, you know what,
I think.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I went to hold it because it was annoying problems.
It hit me in the boob most action had had
in probably ten years. And that's the truth. Anyway, anyway,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I took her in because she was due for her
Raby's vaccination. Okay, So I took her in for her
Raby's vaccination and they weighed her. So when she was
weighed by doctor Durico, she was fourteen pounds and.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That was the first time she was weighed when I
thought she was overweight, but Drico.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Said she was perfect.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Fourteen pounds was perfect, okay, she said, if anybody's overweight, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Charlie and me and your friend Courtney and me.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
So they put her on the scale and she weighed
eighteen pounds.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Okay, So in this the scheme of things, just so
we can paint the picture. When it comes to a person,
you're like four pounds, I just have to go pee
and takapoo, and I'm fine, right, But when it's a dog,
four pounds is a lot. And when it's a dog,
Gracie's size, she's the size of a shoe box.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
She's not that small, but she's tiny.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
She's tiny.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, she's right around that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Like, four pounds is a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just to give you an idea.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
When I rescued her, I think she weighed seven or
yeahund she was skin and bone, she was bonk. So
I overcompensate with food. Show my love with food.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Sometimes when Lauren looks thin, I'm like, can you come over?
And then I try to feed her bread, bread and
pasta whatever, And I love bread and pasta. I know.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So she's now up to gain four pounds, and so
doctor da Rico says, you've got to go take her
put her on a diet.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Wasn't doctor d Rico. It was the person the vet
who whatever. Sorry doctor d Rico, I didn't come to
you for her vaccine.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Whatever, put her on a diet. So let's get to
the hot dog summer, which is and a lot of
people have a hard time. How do I get my
dog to lose weight? And they're going to sit there
and beg for food twenty four to seven. Yeah, so
she's been on a diet for a couple of days.
Now what are you doing to get her to drop
the poundage?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
The LB's Oh I feel so badly to once again
blame my mother. Okay, but Linda lu was giving me
a really hard time when she would stay with the
dogs for me.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, Linda Lou also said that Allie needed to gain weight,
and I agree she was right. She was right, And
I was telling Linda Lou shout out to Linda Lolo.
I was telling Lauren the same thing, and she was like,
he's perfect. I'm like, he needs a little weight, but
he did so he did. He gained weight.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So Linda Lou says, I wasn't feeding any of them enoff.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh that's not right. Okay, Sorry, I lost John that
because the other two were fatties.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And of course when I was like, I show my
love with treats.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So do I. If you're single and you've got salt
and pepper, haire, and you're a man with a dog,
I will cook for you. But go ahead, Lauren.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
In the meantime, she's cooking for me, I know.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So I upped their food, which was very beneficial.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
For Ali and okay, but so when Allie needs to
gain weight, you're upping food for all three dogs. But
what was the thinking behind that?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Because I don't want them to be upset thinking that
I'm not gonna know that one dog has more food
in a dishy, okay, And so of course when I
would go to work every morning, they would get treats,
and so we had all the treats.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That was a big problem.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, So now are you doing to get reel it
in for Gracie but not the other two? The other
two are perfect.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So I've gone back to their all across the boards,
all of their regular meals, meals of so Gracie was
getting a third cup of food twice a day and
Ollie was getting more than that. But I brought him
back to his regular because now he's gained the weight.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, so he's good.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So she's gone back and there's not nearly as many treats.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, I've also okay, no, no, no, I'm just trying
to like figure. So you've decided to cut back on
food for all three.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, Ollie and Charlie are going back to their.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Regular Okay, she's getting cut back.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
She got cut back a little bit, less treats for
all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Less treats perfect.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And she's spent a ton of time outside, so she's
just running around the backyard getting a little ex exercise.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Okay, okay, which is perfect. Then you've gotta go slow
and steady. You can't starve them. So anyway, exercise is
the number one thing if your dog needs to lose weight.
Exercise is the number one thing. Before you even cut
anything back. Think am I walking my.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Dog every day?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Or if you've got small dogs like Lauren, are we
doing playtime? Not just they're walking around, like throw a ball,
like actually play with them. And I would also say
that you could always if you think your dog has
some sort of health issue, check with a VAT. You
don't want to take a hugely overweight dog and be like,
we're gonna go on a ten mile hike because you're
gonna do more damage. Correct, like literally slow and steady,
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like if you don't walk your dog, but your dog
needs to lose weight, five minutes, five minutes of playtime,
five minutes a walk time.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I have increased the playtime as well.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Which is perfect because sometimes I know your dogs are
out and she's got a decent size yards very large.
They walk around, but they do it every day. It's
like a president's like I walk the treadmill ten minutes
every day. I'm not losing weight. Okay, we'll increase it
to fifteen or right, So to throw paul or play
with a and let them just like run it out,
get it out.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
She plays with her pink pigball. So we've been doing
a lot of catching.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Which is absolutely perfect. So exercise and playtime huge. The
other thing is they're saying just that I looked up
today three meals a day. Now my dog gets four,
but whatever, So three meals a day for a dog
that's gonna lose weight, cut out all treats, give them breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. If you're afraid to give them three meals
(15:28):
a day. You can take that whatever it is, that
lunch meal and use that as treats. Take their regular
food and give it to miss treats throughout the day.
Your dogs get two meals, two two meals a day, okay,
so you could take some of her dinner or some
of her breakfast and use that as like little treats
throughout the day. I could, is what they said, what
you can do, cause I know I've gone to Lawrence
House before, and let me tell you, I have dog envy.
(15:50):
I walk in and she's got thirty five different types
of treats. Like I'm like, are you giving your dog?
This's like literally bags of treats everywhere. My dog gets
unsalted saltines with his IBD. So you could take one
of her meals or some food from her breakfast and
dinner and use it as treats throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
When I'm home, they don't get treats. Okay, it's only
when I leave the house. So maybe you should start
leaving the house house a little more.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Show I leave the house more, they're gonna get more SATs.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh yeah that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, sorry, Well, now say it's summer I'm not working
right now.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And they also say, so if your dog is a
type of dog like you've all of a sudden cut
down on their food and they're super hungry and they're
begging and begging and begging and countersurfing, to actually take
a little bit of their kibble out and replace it
with pumpkin because the pumpkin is low calorie, low fat,
and it will fill them up. Okay, my dog's butt
would explode because he's allergic to pumpkin, but just keep
(16:44):
that in mind.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So right, they my dogs don't beg for food ever.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay, they do, well, that's because they're fat and they're
getting treats twenty four to seven. Literally, they get two
meals a day, that's it, but treats all day long.
Of course they're gonna beg.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Of course I would.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I I beg at your house when I'm there too.
She's got snacks central, so when I go to your house,
I beg as well. Let's get rid of the snacks
and the trees.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I getting rid of the snacks.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And then then lastly, if your dog is gaining weight,
I would suggest a vet visit. If you know, hey,
I haven't changed the food, the dog's still getting exercise,
I haven't increased the treats. Then I would actually go
to the vet because a lot of dogs and this
is when I saw Gracie. I thought she had a
thyroid issue. I know, but you can have your dog
(17:32):
check for a thyroid issue. They could have Cushing's disease,
which is a pituitary thing. There's just like a human.
They can gain weight for so many reasons. But also
your dog could be on prednazone for some reason.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They could have diabetes, diabetes, all of them.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So I would like, if you're like I exercise my
dog every day, I'm not increasing treats. I haven't increased
the food, but my dog is gaining an enormous amount
of weight. Go see your vet first, because there's so
many underlying medical issues that could be causing it. That's
not like lack of exercise and too much food.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Gracie is just her mommy fed.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And can I say I would agree with that because
I go over there, just like Lauren and Jackson. Come here,
it's Chewy delivering his food. I swear to God, he's
looked out the window. It's literally it is Chewy in
my driveway delivering his food. So shout out to Chewy
as well, pure in el that's what he eats. But yes,
I totally agree on that. Like hers was like just
(18:32):
food related and it's got to be difficult. And I've
got to want Jack come get over here right now. Jack,
I have three she has one not come. He knows
not to come in when mummy's working. Okay, he wants
to come. But when it comes to somebody who's got
more than one dog, Jackson, come, he.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Doesn't want to come to you right now. He wants
to come to me.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
People that have more than one dog, that I guess
that is the stress. The stress is how do you
put one dog? How do you put one dog on
a diet? And not all of them? And so for me,
I only have one dog, I have to worry about it.
But I would cut down that one dog's food breakfast
and dinner because they don't know what's in their dishes.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Well, Gracie, Gracie has been cut back. The other two
are back on their regular diet. So how much do
you does Gracie need to lose? And when should we do?
The way in the hot dog check in, I mean
she definitely needs to lose those four pounds.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I feel like we should google. And we're not venarians,
by the way. No, not that I feel like we
should know. We should google. How long should it take
to safely lose four pounds? For a dog? Four pounds
is a lot, I know it is. That's what I'm saying. Like,
I don't expect her to lose four pounds by the
next time we do our podcast, but let me just
say that we.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Need to use I don't want you guys to think
that I am not a good dog mom.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Gracie is happy, she is healthy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
She's just chunky, being a good dog mom making sure
they're out a healthy weight. So I didn't know she
was no four pounds. I'm saying, you're a good dog man.
She's putting her on a diet. I say her healthy.
Especially dogs with little tiny legs. Can you Gracie's legs
are that big? Can you imagine carrying all that extra weight.
I know what it is like for me when I'm
(20:16):
like five pounds up. I can't even walk around. I'm
five to two. She's gonna be like dragging around. I
don't know, it's a lot. I'm for her it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I'm questioning that it was four pounds, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, it's a good question because she's also tons of
fur on her. She's like your hand, you put your
hand in because all these years a big Laura I
think Gracie Music on a die said she's just fluffy,
and I would put my hand in, My hand would disappear.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
She is a fluffy little girl, disappear with all of
the fur and fluff she had. Doctor DaRico used to
always laugh about it because she's like her fur is
so normal right here, and then you get down to
her hind quarters and it's like all curly and stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So what I would also say, if you have no problem,
Lauren does, but if you don't have a problem, shaving
your dog. And that's what I did with my dog,
was going through IBD because he's a labordoodal and he
can be like a rosta dog in like three weeks. Yeah,
keep their coat really short so you can see what's happening,
and you see what's going on. Like dogs with big
full fur coats, you have no idea. You shave them
(21:15):
down one day and they could be skin and bones,
so they could be fat. You don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I know, but papions are supposed to have their further
fur is necessary.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I know, but it might not be necessary why she's
on a diet. I'm just saying, if it's not a
papion and you really want to take control of like
seeing what's going on, have them like trimmed down enough
where you could see like, oh, there's a waste, Like pick.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Her up in a hugger. Okay, I love on her.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
That's that's all you need to do.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
But I will. I will definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I'm hoping between now and maybe the next podcast that
she is down.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Maybe a pound. Okay, that's what I'm that's the week.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It's like a pound a week, which I think. I
feel like that's a really really good goal.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think a pound would be excellent.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
All right, Well that's it. That's all we got is
hot dog summer. If your dog needs to go on
a diet, I would say, exercise playtime is like key,
and then you can take a little kibble out of
their meals and still give them treats, or eliminate the
treats and take some of the kible out of their
meals as treats. That would be what I would do. Unfortunately,
(22:23):
my dog actually probably needs to gain weight with his
IBD flair. Yep, you know I would.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes a dog with IBD. It's such a juggle with,
Like my dog needs to gain weight, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well we're gonna she's working, she's gonna run around, she's
gonna get some playtime, exercise.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I love her, We snuggle.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Do you know what else that I have for you
that I'm gonna send you home with? Is they said
games like brain games? Yes, so I feel like if
you don't want to go outside it's summer and it's hot,
and she's a little furry dog, you could do brain
games with and they would actually caust them to lose
weight or whatever something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
All right, Well, listen, I'm getting ready to fire up
the grill, so Lorden and I can gain a little
more weight.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
God like I need it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The sad thing is Burger's on the grill. My dog
is gonna sit there, and I'm gonna feel so horrible
because he cannot eat meat. He can't have burger or
chicken or fish or anything or rabbit or ostrich or
kangaroo or kangaroo or whatever, but listen. Thank you so
much for listening to the podcast Down with Dogs, two
BFFs chatting about their dogs. Shout out if you're watching
(23:35):
us on TikTok on YouTube. We're also on Instagram. It's
called Down with Dogs and with Dogs. Any topic you want.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Us to cover, yeah, just post it right, yeah, post
is I'm not savvy with this.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Social media stuci, so in the comments or slide into
my DMS if you are cute and a man in
single and I.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Just anybody slide into her DMS at this point, she'd be.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I would be through. Would So let us know what
you want us to talk about and we will catch you.
On the next podcast, Hot Dog Summer, we'll see if
Gracie has dropped a couple pounds.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
One pound, one pound, one week, one pound.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Check in is coming up. Thanks guys, thanks for watching.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Bye,
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