RANT: TV - Help! My dog is fatter than me!

BBC3 this one I think. It was basically about owners of dogs that feed them so much they are overweight.

There is simply no excuse for this. If you are feeding an animal that much, that it can barely move, has trouble breathing - you may as well be kicking it about or stubbing your cigarettes out on it...

If you see some great trundling behemoth of a dog while you are out walking yours be sure to stop the owner and tell them what a mindless, cruel bully they are. It is a laziness of the worst kind. A complete lack of self discipline. It should not be tolerated.

If people saw a starved dog, its ribs showing, frail and cold being walked by an owner no one would have much of a problem telling the owner how wrong they are. However, for some reason, if its fat we don't have quite the same social conscious. Why?