Losing weight with your dog can be a lot of fun, and very worthwhile for both of you. I recently started a website on weight loss, because I need to lose  more weight… have already lost some. When I am interested in a topic, I tend to start a website about it! Anyway, recently I did a blog post on that site that I figured would interest readers here too. It’s titled Lose Weight with Your Dog and it quotes studies, links to articles, and mentions a book. I won’t duplicate the articles here, but I will  list here  some good books about exercising with dogs.

Also, if your dog needs to lose weight, see an article I did for this blog a while back, called Is Your Dog Fat?

Click on the images to read more about the books at Amazon:

I’m pleased that this is available for Kindle as well as in paperback… Here’s the blurb about Fitness Unleashed: Research shows that trim pets live up to two years longer than overweight ones—making for a more healthy, vibrant life for your dog.

In a groundbreaking study, top obesity expert Dr. Robert Kushner found that exercising with your dog not only benefits your furry friend, it also gives you more confidence and motivation to exercise, leading to more weight-loss success. Dr. Kushner and prominent veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker have teamed up to present a simple, comprehensive walking program—beginning with just three 15-minute walks per week—that is as good for you as it is for your dog!

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Doggone Safe is a terrific website that has a lot of information to help prevent dog bites. Click on the image to read their tips for dealing with Halloween, either as a dog owner or as someone out trick or treating with children. The suggestions are to be quite careful and a lot of people won’t think them necessary, but a lot of people don’t realize how many kids are bitten by dogs all the time either.

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The other evening, we happened to catch a PBS program called Through a Dog’s Eyes. It’s the story of Jennifer Arnold and others, who have overcome an amazing number of obstacles to found and run a place outside of Atlanta called Canine Assistants (link to its website).

There, Jennifer Arnold, her brother, her veterinarian husband, and numerous other workers and volunteers train Golden Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers to be service and seizure response dogs for people–both kids and adults–with a wide variety of  challenges. Read the rest of this entry