Developing Population and Personal Behavioral Interventions to Address the Public Health Challenge of Pet Obesity
French, J.
2015
Purina Companion Animal Nutrition Summit: The Future of Weight Management

Pet obesity is a big challenge nowadays. Human obesity continues also being a big challenge regarding the low recognition happened in the mainstream public health institutions. Therefore, the attention given to these patients is not the required, and the problem do not receive the necessary research programs neither. This paper explores some of the reasons why pet obesity and overweight should be brought into the mainstream of the public health response to obesity.