Friday, July 04, 2008 | 8:41 a.m.

Do Dogs Really Need Diet Pills?

by Lenore Skenazy

As America blimps, so blimp American dogs — about 30 percent are now overweight. But the dogs have something we don't have:

Tails.

Well, yes, but now they have something else, too: a magic bullet. Pfizer may not have cured cancer yet, or AIDS, but it has come up with Slentrol, the first FDA-approved diet drug for dogs. It just started advertising to the public last week, begging (if you will) the question:

Woof woof woof woof?

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Posted by: Scot Penslar
Comment: #1
Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:35 PM

Weight-loss pills and personal exercise trainers for dogs? Well, in a country where pets already have a higher standard of living than half the people in the world, I suppose it was inevitable. More proof that the U.S.A. is tilted downhill toward the west -- and everything loose eventually winds up in California.

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