Dogs and Revolution

Flag of the French Revolution

“If there is one thing I can tell [clients] to do to improve the lives of their pets, it is not to allow them to get fat,” Farcas said. “There are a lot of different perceptions about what ‘ideal’ is for certain breeds, but often times, those perceptions are wrong.

To create a standard for ideal body condition, veterinary nutritionists developed a body condition tool. This scale is used to determine if your pet is at an ideal body condition. It goes from one to nine, one being too thin and nine being too heavy. For dogs, four to five is considered ideal, and for cats, it’s five. It’s important that owners evaluate their pets’ body condition regularly.

Dr. Farcas also points out the benefits that can come with maintaining an ideal body condition, like extending your dog’s healthy years. According to a canine lifespan study that was conducted over 14 years, feeding dogs to maintain an ideal body condition throughout their lives can help extend their healthy years by an average of 1.8 years. 

The French Revolution was a ten year long, extremely bloody, social and political uprising, that despite failing to create lasting stability or representative democracy, left a lasting mark on not only France by the world. However, before the revolution could begin, a series of costly wars combined with misguided actions on the part of French kings, the effect of the crowns attempt to stabilize the nation by imposing taxes on the rich, and finally the long-standing poverty and squalor that the poor inhabited, all made up the nature of the fiscal crisis that triggered the French revolution.

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