Readers Respond: Top Pet-proven Diet and Exercise Tips

You recognize that your pet is overweight. Your vet has sent home a diet and exercise plan for your pet. That said, old habits and patterns can be hard to break. What worked for your pet to break those snack-consuming, couch potato habits? How did you get (and keep) your pet on the road to a fitness?

Earlier, my friends on Twitter shared some of their healthy pet diet and fitness tips.

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Overweight Cat: tips for eating raw

1) I pour tiny bit of tuna water on top of raw/wet food mixture to encourage eating up! 2) My social kitty prefers my company in the kitchen - making coffee or whatever...he wants to eat breakfast WITH me, I guess. He eats up better if I'm there. 3) To further encourage newer, raw food diet, I coo - coo to him and finger feed a few licks, saying, "oh, you're so good, you're my baby," while scratiching his neck..behavior modification: associating raw food with getting other 'good stuff!"

—MissJanesPets

JAY

Walking your dog will help you, too. Always watch how you feed him and don't give him junk food - this will make him fatter.

—SHRIEY

Hydrotherapy Getting Pups Back in Shape

Hydrotherapy has only become available for dogs in recent years and is a rehabilitation program that allows dogs to exercise in water. The fluid environment gives them greater support to minimize stress on their joints, while at the same time creating enough resistance so that they can exercise their muscles.

—graingers79