Younger animals need food to help them grow up strong and healthy, while older pets can benefit from diets tailored to their specific health needs.
However, it can be easy to over-feed a pet that knows how to beg, what bring us to growing problem of obesity and a major contributor to a host of health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney and heart disease and shortened lifespan at last.
Being overweight is a serious problem for animals, and can cause real health problems, as they get older.
With proper diet and exercise, all pets should be able to meet their dietary needs and be within a healthy weight and in good physical condition.