My basset hound is 4 years old and is 20 lbs overweight?

put him on a diet and walk him more and clean ur house and dog proof it so he cant get to all the things he eats

Put him on Little Giants dog food. You can only order it off line so you will have to look it up. 1) It helps them be a healthy weight 2) It is great for you dog, no bi products that are in most dog foods that not only are unhealthy but has been proven to shorten the life span of your pet

talk to a canine nutritionist, they can find you the correct diet for him, so he feels full up without putting on the weight.

its easy to use guesswork when finding the correct diet for a dog but with breeds such as bassets i would consult a professional.

get him back on his diet and try to keep stuff out of reach my dog is also on a diet he also steals and eats anything!!!
i put alot of raw carrots on with his food and as a treat, they low in calories and help fill him up

He seriously needs to go on a diet.

I use Natural Balance Lite on my dog to keep her at a good weight.

Take away ALL rawhides, flossies, chew treats, etc. Give him green beans, pieces of apple (NO SEEDS!!!), or similar healthy treats for being good.

Exercise him MUCH MORE. 20 lbs is a HUGE amount – this didn’t happen overnight. He needs to be more active.

As far as eating things he shouldn’t be, don’t leave them out. If they aren’t there for him to munch on, he won’t munch on them. This part is not a doggie problems, it’s a people problem.

Hope this helps and that you can get your puppy healthy again! : )

The lack of info is stupendous! What food are you feeding him? What’s his name?
It sounds like you’re feeding him dry or canned dog food with fillers in them which most of them are. I have found some “lo-carb” dog food at the pet store. You can usually tell it’s good for your dog if it has to be refrigerated. As the American diet went from a balance of protein and carbs to high carbs with a flash point sugar rating so too did our dog food. The reason is because it’s cheaper and the food companies make lots of money!
If you can’t afford that at least get him some real meat. Maybe your butcher down the street will give you some or maybe you can find it from some other source but you will have to get him off the cheap dog food.
This explains his eating socks and stuff too. You’re actually torturing him because he’s so use to eating high carbs that his body tells him that it’s time to eat and it doesn’t care what. He probably has high and low blood sugar spikes as well.
In short, the same thing that’s blowing the rest of us up is blowing him up like a balloon. Learn to “eat in” more and get off the vegetable oil (it’s high in protease inhibitors and that means that you can’t digest meat as well anymore and it has other things in it as well that contribute to the balloon shape) – yeah, I know, it’s supposed to be good for you but what do you want them to say? The truth. That’s a laugh. These food companies are in it for the big bucks and they don’t care what they feed you as long as you come back and spend more.
Look on the dog food cans and see how much grain is in there. Oh, that’s right it doesn’t list the amounts just the ingredients. So, it’s probably as high as the legal limits allow them.
Don’t believe me check it out for yourself. You can isolate different foods – like meat for one week and see the reaction. He won’t need to eat as much and he’ll start normalizing his weight within the first few days.
If that works then you can start to go back on the dog food but I wouldn’t rush into it. Feed him meat then canned. Isolate these things and keep a chart on what and when you feed him as well as his reaction.
Oh, and just a word of warning to all out there. If you think that the animals have stopped dieing because of the tainted food from China – you’re very much mistaken. We had one of our friends’ cats die from this very thing. It’s dangerous to feed you dogs and cats this food now – You don’t know where they get the grain and gluten from because they don’t have to list it!!!!