Nice job, St.G! Dobies are the biggest babies.
She doesn’t look as chubby as I was imagining; you should be able to get that weight off her in no time. Treat management is the key (after proper diet, of course).
She’s a chonk, all right! I bet she can run it off in no time.
I expect that having room to run around and other dogs to play with will pare some of it down; and also improve muscle tone.
Too much diet restriction may backfire.
Good Girl, Poppy! Good Boy, @StGermain !
The difference you’ve already made, are making, and will make in this dog’s life … just incredible. Brings a tear to my eye.
Good work, @StGermain !!
Umm..I’m a Good Girl, too.
I’ve never understood the logistics of how this is supposed to work; when I die all my dogs will be waiting for me at the rainbow bridge. My issue is that I’ve always had one lap dog at a time; of course mine were 60-70lb lap dogs. There isn’t the physical room for more than one of them on my lap. How do we choose whose turn it is to get my lap when they had it all to themselves when living?
I assume laps are much bigger in heaven.
A magic lap, duh. 
We had to put our guy down last Friday – he was coughing blood. This helps a lot.
I’m so sorry.
Omigosh! 
My apologies! Isn’t “Germain” generally masculine? Obviously I was laboring under an unjustified assumption!
Do I then turn into Vishnu with eight arms to give all of those skritches?
No, a different kind of super hero: Millipedeman!
I’m so sorry to hear it.
No problem. I took the name of a literary vampire for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer message boards in 1997, and have used it ever since.
This kind of problem is why I have pronouns listed :). I’m cis-female (and more content with that now that I’m past menopause), and I would think my screen name (my RL first name) is obviously female, but one never knows if others will agree about the apparent gender of a name.