Deadline Approaches For Petfit Challenge Participants

Pets that are losing weight and enjoying the benefits of weight loss success as participants in Banfield's PetFit Challenge, are encouraged to send in their Pet's entry to win the Banfield Fittest Pet of the Year Award. In July 2007, two grand prizewinners will be selected - one dog and one cat. The most inspiring canine and feline fitness stories will win grand prize packages including a brand new refrigerator valued at $1,000, packed with Hills's Pet food and a 1-year Optimum Wellness Plan for both winners.
Enter to win instructions:
Now is the time to share your inspirational PetFit Challenge story with us! In order to ensure that your Pet's entry qualifies for submission to win the Banfield Fittest Pet of the Year Award, you must include the following materials:
- Pet parent's name, address, phone number, e-mail, Pet's name, Banfield hospital, Banfield veterinarian, starting weight and post-challenge weight
- An inspirational success story in 400 words or less, describing how the PetFit Challenge changed your Pet's life
- Two pictures: your Pet's before weight loss and post-challenge pictures All PetFit Challenge entries must be mailed in and post-marked by June 30 to PetFit Challenge, P.O. Box 13998 Portland, OR 97213 or send your entry, with pictures attached, via e-mail to [email protected]
The PetFit Challenge dog and cat winners will be announced in July 2007!

More about the Banfield PetFit Challenge
- More than 67 percent of dogs and cats that received nutritional advice at Banfield,
The Pet Hospital in the last two years were noted as heavy. If left untreated, this could lead to a variety of debilitating health conditions, which includes diabetes, osteoarthritis, respiratory distress, liver disease, heart disease and possibly a shortened life span. To help combat obesity in Pets, Banfield, The Pet Hospital, the nation's largest private veterinary practice, teamed up with Hill's Pet Nutrition, the maker of Science Diet and Prescription Diet brand Pet foods, to unleash the PetFit Challenge on January 1, 2007 in Banfield hospitals across the country. The Hill's P-PET study demonstrates that both people and their Pets are more successful at staying with a weight loss program when they exercise together. Over the course of the 12-month study, both people and dogs lost weight and kept it off: People lost an average of 11 pounds (approximately 5 percent of their initial body weight) and dogs lost an average of 12 pounds (approximately 15.6 percent of their initial body weight). The maximum weight loss for dogs was 35 pounds; for people, the maximum loss was 51 pounds.

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. manufactures Science Diet brand Pet foods, sold through veterinarians and finer Pet specialty food stores, and Prescription Diet therapeutic Pet foods, available only through veterinarians. Founded more than 50 years ago by one veterinarian's unique commitment to Pet nutrition and well being, Hill's follows its mission to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their Pets by producing the most scientifically advanced, highest quality Pet foods available.
Founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1955, Banfield has become the largest privately owned veterinary practice in the world, with more than 600 locations across the U.S., in the U.K. and in Mexico. More than 1000 veterinarians at Banfield are committed to giving Pets the same level of care that their human family members receive. Banfield hospitals offer a full-range of comprehensive, medical services, computerized medical records, Pet preventive care plans, extended operating hours, and is the only veterinary practice in the world with an extensive quality assurance program. Banfield, The Pet Hospital helps extend the lives of more than 3.5 million Pets each year.

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