WTF!! In the UK causing your pet to be obese is considered abuse. Unfortunately, due to the numbers of otherwise horribly abused pets, it's still pretty rare to remove an animal due to obesity, but the option is at least there! I have an English Cocker Spaniel and I'm constantly told by fat bastards that she's "too skinny" as spaniels are notoriously greedy. Pretty much every other spaniel we meet on walks is overweight and shaped like a barrel!  My girl is lean but not overly so, she is smack bang in the middle of the weight range for her size. Even so, we are constantly asked why "she's so skinny" because people are used to seeing overweight spaniels. It makes me really angry as dogs can only get fat if you let them! It's always the fat cunts with their horribly obese dogs that tell me my dog is too skinny! Get fucked!! My dog is perfectly healthy, your dog is the unhealthy one, you evil bastards!  They're killing their pets as quickly as they're killing themselves! A healthy spaniel should easily make 10 years old, if they're dying before the age of 5-6 then it's your fucking fault!