Hey, Dogs are People, too, WebMD!

I've talked about WebMD before, but they sent me an email about a new feature that got me very excited.  It's a free online Symptom Checker.  What's funny about this is that I got the email because I subscribe to their Healthy Dogs newsletter, and I (naturally) assumed it was for animals.  Now that I'm writing that, it does sound like I was kind of nuts for thinking that.  Anyway, I'm hoping that they will have this service for dogs sometime soon.
On another WebMD note, their latest newsletter is headlined "Is Your Dog Too Fat?" -- an issue of interest, or it should be-- for all doghumans.  There is clearly a connection between excess weight and diabetes (although if you read the research on this, you'll find that nobody is quite sure what that connection means or why it exists), and trust me, you want to eliminate as many risk factors as you can.  At any rate, there is a video from their Ask the Veterinarian series, and this is the third question.  My own take on the connection (and no, I'm not a veterinarian or a physician), after doing a lot of research on diabetes in both dogs and humans, is that exercise seems to be the real root.  If your dog (or you) is overweight AND doesn't get much exercise, you've got a lot more to worry about that those who are overweight and active.