IAMS dog food commercial.

[Gilroy]

So I saw this last night for the very first time on the telly and I got to tell you I was kind of shocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwC_7CHBLM


So I see a nice what looks like a chocolate Labrador puppy going up the steps and coming down the steps is an obese, out of shape old dog. I wonder if these folks are trying to put themselves out of business.

What would be wrong with putting an athletic muscular gun dog coming down the steps in the fullness of health.

The comments on the link seem to love the commercial?

[Fenelon]

What? I'd be pretty happy if I had a 12 year old English standard in that shape ! The dog would have been bred for conformation to the blocky tank look of the standard. IAMS marketers would be showing a typical dog based on the fact that most Lab owners have that style of Lab. Looks like he's doing well for elbow and hip dysplasia, not to mention osteoarthritis. He does carry some extra boiler weight, but so do 90% of the men I know over 40! The owners probably try to ration his grub, but since he's a Lab, the brown pig-dog will take it upon himself to visit the garden to eat a thirty foot row of beets, strip five pounds of brussel sprouts off the stocks, visit nine apple trees for the grounders, then top it off with seven pounds of fresh horse manure. If you yell at him he'll just give you that sad look and wag his tail. If he pukes it up he'll just go for round two!

[Gilroy]

What? I'd be pretty happy if I had a 12 year old English standard in that shape ! The dog would have been bred for conformation to the blocky tank look of the standard. IAMS marketers would be showing a typical dog based on the fact that most Lab owners have that style of Lab. Looks like he's doing well for elbow and hip displacement, not to mention osteoarthritis. He does carry some extra boiler weight, but so do 90% of the men I know over 40! The owners probably try to ration his grub, but since he's a Lab, the brown pig-dog will take it upon himself to visit the garden to eat a thirty foot row of beets, strip five pounds of brussel sprouts off the stocks, visit nine apple trees for the grounders, then top it off with seven pounds of fresh horse manure. If you yell at him he'll just give you that sad look and wag his tail. If he pukes it up he'll just go for round two!

My Avatar is 12 years old this April looks exactly like that photo taken back year's ago and apart from going deaf is holding up good.

[Sharon]

Too chunky for me at that age, but I've always had setters, versatile breeds , beagles so maybe a lab does get that chunky at that age.
(Your dog looks great for that age Gilroy.)

[Gilroy]

Too chunky for me at that age, but I've always had setters, versatile breeds , beagles so maybe a lab does get that chunky at that age.
(Your dog looks great for that age Gilroy.)

LOL he's been running 6 kilometres at least three times a week for his whole life and gets to roam most of the year all around the hunt camp.

[sabmgb]

I have seen the commercial several times, it is probably representative of a lot of older labs. Most labs today are not hunters, just great house pets. I have to work at keeping my girl in shape and she is only 3, because she will eat anything and will give you the eye's, I'm starving. My 11.5 year old was the same when he I had to put him down, as he was in my avatar. Labs just have the tendency to be barrels, like Irish setters look like under fed. I have seen a lot of hunting labs that are barrels as well. Or maybe the commercial is about look at this barrel at 12, if he can make it all can. Anyway I will bet the owner loves him as much as I love my girl,

[bdog]

Not all labs, but there is proof they do have an eating disorder, and if a dog is over weight or out of shape, that's on the owner, not the dogs fault, people are killing their dogs with kindness

[Fenelon]

Not all labs, but there is proof they do have an eating disorder, and if a dog is over weight or out of shape, that's on the owner, not the dogs fault, people are killing their dogs with kindness

I agree that the owner is the culprit as they control the grub intake in most cases. Not too hard to do in an urban setting. The problem for me is that we live on a farm. Too many available food sources for the opportunistic black pig-dogs to scrounge and forage on. If you cut the kibble back by half a cup the piggy will just supplement the loss with more horse manure. ………. Or grounder apples and pears, tiny bits of beet pulp and grain spilled by the horses in the stalls, garden raids of snow peas, carrots, beets, cabbage, bush beans, brussel sprouts, green peppers, little grape tomatoes, anything with a carbon base in the manure pile or the compost pile, hoof trimmings from the horses………. I guess I could build a dog box and keep him on a yard chain, or spend $4k to fence in the 1.5 acre garden.

[B25]

Perhaps it's the new way of looking at things. These days everything obese, unattractive and generally weird is considered beautiful and hip. Anything, from underwear to politics.

[Fenelon]

We've joked about putting one of those mini horse grazing muzzles on our Lab. I can only imagine the sad look in his eyes when he couldn't figure out how to strip green beans while wearing it!