according to the vet our new rescue rottie of 15 months is overweight by about 10kg!!! he currently weighs in at 50kg we have had him 7 weeks and he has lost a fair bit since we had him due to previous owner never taking him out for a walk (was shut inside shed day and night) we can only walk him 30 mins slowly building up longer every few weeks each walk which he has 3 a day due to lacking in any form of muscle tone in his rear legs again from lack of exercise..i have halved his food intake (not sure if this is too much) but now he is a pain in the butt, scrounging food, trying to snatch food from us, jumping up the worktops in case we have left food out, had to put the bin outside and he raids it, he is obviously hungry as he never used to do this, should I increase his food by a 1/4 and/or feed him the same amount but spread it out into say 3 or 4 meals a day instead of 2, he is on a mixture of dry and wet food...never had to put a dog on a diet before its really hard and I refuse to buy the vets diet food at its over the top price it would cost me about 58.00 a week!!....
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