Really, Really Fat Dogs

Posted by Alex in Animal, Pictures on August 1, 2008 at 3:16 pm


When their owners handed over two fox terriers named Bert and Ernie because they could no longer care for them, the SPCA was astonished to see the fat dogs: Bert (pictured above) weighed 32 kg (71 lb) and Ernie weighed 44 kg (lb)!

SPCA operations manager Tracy Dunn said the team were speechless when they saw how overweight the dogs were. She said the SPCA often sees malnourished and underweight dogs and cats, so it was unusual to have two very overweight dogs handed in at once.

Dunn said animal obesity is becoming a major problem in New Zealand. "The nation’s overweight people are in turn overfeeding and supersizing their pets."

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16 comments to "Really, Really Fat Dogs"

  1. Moon
    August 1st, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Aaaaaaanddddd, the next story is about a breakfast hot dog wrapped in bacon!!

  2. oc stomias
    August 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    That's crazy - my (chubby) rat terrier weighs 10 pounds!

  3. CheeseDuck
    August 1st, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Man, PETA must be pissed.

  4. Thomas
    August 1st, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    "Bert weighed 32 kg (71 lb) and Ernie weighed 44 kg (lb)" Forget something?

  5. Jill Harness
    August 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    It's kinda funny having this post right next to the fattiest hot dog post, were they connected somehow?

  6. SenorMysterioso
    August 1st, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    Fat people have fat pets? Makes sense but I'd never noticed any correlation

  7. ted
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    How can that be real?

  8. CheeseDuck
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Maybe the fat people are just fattening up the "pets" just so they can eat them.

  9. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 1st, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    That looks more like a Jack Russell to me.

    Doesn't matter, though. He's still too fat.

  10. Dobermans
    August 1st, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    i can't believe people let their dogs get like that. They should be finned and never allowed to own dogs again...bottom line.

  11. luxe
    August 1st, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Agree with Doberman's post. It should be animal cruelty. If a person can be fined for endangering the health of their animals by underfeeding them, overfeeding should have the same punishment. It puts the animal at risk for a whole rainbow of diseases.

  12. Katelyn
    August 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    Poor dogs...
    if my dogs were that fat, I'd die

  13. RM
    August 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 am

    It´s a Jack Rusell Terrier.

  14. Debes
    August 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    I would like 5 minutes with the ignorant owners of these two dogs. Just me, them, a room and an industrial spatula. Grrrrrrr!

  15. Chuichupachichi
    August 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Thats not a dog, thats a cow!
    Can't anybody tell from the coloration? White with brown and black patches + big & fat = Cow!

    Fat people owning fat dogs?
    I once knew a girl that was a total slut.
    She owned a dog with a big, fat Vagina!
    Other dogs(both the four legged and the two legged kind) were always jumping over their fence.

    My dog has a really big penis.
    He's a Chuhuahua. His penis is bigger than he is!
    His name is Pedro. Thats Mexican for Peter.
    But my dogs name is Amador. Mexican! not Spanish.
    The Spanish don't have a breed of dog.
    They have bulls.............with really big testicles!
    Horny bulls!..........with Horns!............Big ones!

    Some people think the dog in the picture is a Jack Russel Terrier. Some people think its a Fox Terrier.
    Maybe the only real problem is that nobody knows what breed of dog it really is. Maybe its a Fat Terrier?
    It certainly looks like a Fat Terrier to me. The
    owners ought to be punished for starving their dog.
    To me, it kinda looks too skinny, now that we've established that its really a "Fat Terrier". Just think, if its an American Fat Terrier and not an English one. Then it needs to be even fatter yet.

    Of course the owners could no longer take care of them.
    What owners that have been eaten by their dogs "can" take care of anything after that? Yummy, a dogs favorite, "Master Meat". If the owner was having an identity crisis, then its "Master Mystery Meat"

  16. Philip
    August 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    From seeing this, it just goes to show how over-treating ur pet can lead to many issues. in saying that, i have done some research on dogs and from what i have found out is that Bert may be a cross bred dog. Fox terriers even if over fed, will not grow to be this size. Take Ernie for example, he may be fatter than averaged sized Fox Terriers but is still same in length. therefor from my point of view, it is due to Bert being a cros bred dog that he is seen to be this oversized. in the end i just wish the very best for these two dogs and hope they reach their intended goal..


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