Great News, New Yorkers, Your Pets May Be In Better Shape Than You!

[damaya]

...this latest scoop from Pet Product News International:

58.3% of cats in America are overweight or obese; and
52.5% of dogs in America are overweight or obese.

And according to Bloomberg, who presumably has the best source of information from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg:

58% of adult New Yorkers are overweight or obese; and
40% of New Yorker children in public schools are overweight or obese.

Daily Prompt: 3 Reasons To Have Animals In Your Life

1. Carrying a Chihuahua in your purse can now not only be considered fashionable: it can be considered exercise, since you’re probably carrying extra weight compared to vintage 2005 Paris Hilton purse-Chihuahuas. And it is even more fashionable because next to the likely overweight or obese purse-pooch, you will look thinner!

Read more below:

http://nottheworstnews.com/2013/03/19/great-news-new-yorkers-your-pets-may-be-in-better-shape-than-you/

[talkingmime]

1. Cats are lazy. Dogs eat too much. Children eat shit food. Chihuahuas aren't dogs.

They're a species of rodent or something. I don't consider them dogs. And they yip instead of bark. Purse or no purse, they still yip.