Nurses' attitudes to pet obesity

Abstract

Many nurses will spend a good proportion of their time seeing overweight pets and advising on weight reduction as part of a controlled weight programme, often run through nursing clinics within the practice. It was in recognition of this and the nursing professions position as a key stakeholder in controlling pet obesity, that the BVNA was approached by the Pet Obesity Task Force (POTF) to enlist our help in a survey investigating attitudes to obesity and its control.