{"id":143,"date":"2019-11-21T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/?p=143"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:09:00","slug":"sweet-treats-in-the-home-this-festive-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/sweet-treats-in-the-home-this-festive-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet treats in the home this festive period?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-145 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sweet-treats-in-home-this-festive-period-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet treats for your pets at home this winter\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sweet-treats-in-home-this-festive-period-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sweet-treats-in-home-this-festive-period.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As we draw nearer to Christmas, and the nights are long and dark, we tend to fill our homes with tasty treats. It\u2019s important to remember that sneaking our pets <em>little bits<\/em> of \u2018human food\u2019 can be the equivalent of you or I eating seven hamburgers in a row!<\/p>\n<p>Animals\u2019 stomachs are designed very differently to our own and sharing our sweet treats and leftovers with them can lead to them becoming morbidly obese, very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>If an animal is overweight, they can develop serious illnesses, and it puts added pressure onto their joints, limiting their mobility and potentially making exercise very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>To book an appointment to get your dog checked, <a href=\"\/about-us\">contact us<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we draw nearer to Christmas, and the nights are long and dark, we tend to fill our homes with&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/sweet-treats-in-the-home-this-festive-period\/\" class=\"cta\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pet-poisons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakvets.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}