Heavy Hounds: A Gallery of Portly Pooches

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Heavy Hounds: A Gallery of Portly Pooches
Dogs have been gaining weight in tandem with their human owners over the past decade. In 2009, a survey of veterinarians by the Association for the Prevention of Pet Obesity found that the number of overweight and obese dogs in America had grown 2 percent over the previous year to 45 percent. Here are some of those corpulent canines.
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Heavy Hounds: A Gallery of Portly Pooches

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Stephanie Pappas
Stephanie Pappas
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Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior. She was previously a senior writer for Live Science but is now a freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, and regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor, the monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.