Cath
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Why fat Labradors can blame their genes
Scientists used the 'sausage in a box' test to find out that dogs can be a "hard-wired" for obesity.
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Why fat Labradors can blame their genes
- Thread starter Cath
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Atemas
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- North Cambridgeshire
No surprises here then 
. Didn’t need all this research to tell us our Labs are always hungry
. Didn’t need all this research to tell us our Labs are always hungry
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
I remember a vet nurse telling me about this when Cass went down for her first injections -- positively evangelical she was about not letting Labs get fat ! Took it very seriously indeed. likewise the senior clinical vet, both of them are very lean themselves! I must have been the first research she was talking about.
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
Labs may be hard wired to obesity, but no excuse on our part to let them get obese! 
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Exactly, that was her pointLabs may be hard wired to obesity, but no excuse on our part to let them get obese!
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
Candy
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- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
That explains a lot, clearly I have Labrador genes!