Dog Too Fat? See You in Court!

In England, being obese can get you carted off to a mental institution. Allowing your pet to overeat means you might get some face time with a judge.

[T]wo brothers appeared in court yesterday charged with allowing a dog to get too fat. Rusty, a nine-year-old labrador, may only have been doing what labradors do, which is to eat everything in sight. But he ballooned to more than 11½ stone (161lb, 73kg), the ideal weight for a large-boned 6ft (1.82m) woman, but not a retriever, which should be chasing sticks and newly shot game. ... In what is thought to be the first case of its kind, Rusty’s owners, David Benton and his brother Derek, have been charged with animal cruelty for allowing him to become grossly overweight. ...

When interviewed by the RSPCA, David Benton insisted that Rusty ate only one meal of dried food each evening and a snack in the morning. “He has been plump ever since he was a puppy. He is a poor old thing but he is not in pain. We have tried to give him many foods, but it does not make any difference,” he said. Derek Benton told the charity that Rusty’s weight gain was old age catching up with him.

The first child-abuse lawsuit against parents for having a fat child is surely just around the corner.

Comments

[Jeff Wiebe]

Note to self-- never ever go to England.

[fish]

Sometimes it sucks to be right.....but I have stated in the past (on this very blog) that England is the test lab for every conceivable stupidity to be inflicted upon the rest of the world! Thanks a lot you Brit fuckwits for putting up with it!

[Martin Owens]

What was it that Josef Mengele said?

" The more we do to you, the less you believe we are doing it"