Lawyers should be disbarred, plaintiffs sanctioned, for bringing suits like these

Who knew?

Woman claims dog food maker’s product caused her dog to get fat.

Shannon Walton says she purchased Blue Wilderness Rocky Mountain Recipe for her 7-year-old pup Tucker, compelled by packaging claiming the chow was “inspired by the diet of wolves.”

Yet the food actually contains carbohydrates, “which are neither healthy for dogs nor a meaningful part of the diet of grey wolves,” the suit says.

The class action lawsuit claims Tucker, a Labrador-beagle mix, now has diabetes from wolfing down too much Blue Buffalo over the years, and “requires medical attention for canine obesity.”

I’m guessing that in all those seven years, not once did Tucker open the pantry himself and pour himself a heaping bowl of Blue Wilderness.

Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit (!) dismissed a suit against the makers of Diet Dr. Pepper, brought by a woman who claimed that despite drinking the stuff for 13 years, she was still fat.