{"id":17020,"date":"2020-01-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17020"},"modified":"2020-01-28T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:00:00","slug":"are-you-getting-enough-treats-tuesday-28th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/are-you-getting-enough-treats-tuesday-28th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you getting enough treats? – Tuesday 28th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you getting enough treats?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now here\u2019s a question, are you getting enough treats? We have been sent some interesting research by the head vet at Tails.com<\/a> which says that dogs are given treats at almost half of their human mealtimes. Now, the shocking thing there is that means there are half of mealtimes when we aren\u2019t getting treats. I think we should complain about leaving us out on some occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helpful Advice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On the other paw, a study by the University of Liverpool<\/a> suggests that 59% of us are overweight. Now you might not see that as too much of a problem, but their study suggests that our being too heavy leads us to live 2.5 years less than we would do otherwise. Now think about it. Given we only generally live maybe 12 or 13 years, losing out on more than 2 years just because you couldn\u2019t keep your paws out of the treat cupboard is not good news. Which means that getting your humans to use some of the helpful advice from the vet at Tails.com is worth doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quick Suggestions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are five of their tips for how to stay nice and slim\nand still feel like you\u2019ve had a treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Get your human to buy some healthier snacks for\nyou. Carrot sticks are my favourite \u2013 what are yours?<\/li>
  2. Don\u2019t complain if your human uses some of your\nmealtime allowance of kibble for your between meal treats. I know it means\nthere\u2019s less in the bowl at teatime, but it is better for you.<\/li>
  3. Accept a cuddle, an extra walk or a game instead\nof a treat \u2013 it\u2019s a good way to train your human and if you get them going for\nextra walks they will live longer too.<\/li>
  4. Ask your human to buy smaller treats \u2013 then you\ncan have just as many but will take on fewer calories. <\/li>
  5. Portion size is important at mealtimes too. Make\nsure your human measures out the right amount of food for you. Don\u2019t let them\nbe tempted to think it doesn\u2019t look much. Remind them you are smaller than they\nare \u2013 unless you\u2019re an Irish Wolfhound in which case this may not apply.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It helps if you read the packets of your treats too. You\u2019d\nbe surprised how much fat some of them contain. You might want to start shaming\nyour human to eat more healthily too so they can carry on sharing what\u2019s on\ntheir plate. They like doing that too, but if you make sure they are eating\nhealthy food that is safe for you too then everyone wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Love Wilma <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wilma is asking ‘Are you getting enough treats?’ It’s an important question and every dog should consider it.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,113],"tags":[50,93],"class_list":["post-17020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-health","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}