Questions/answers
A friend holds a puppy (mongrel). It feeds with dry food for adult dogs. Explain what can happen.
Answer
The main food of most puppies is mother's milk. Small fluffy lumps of the mother will give everything necessary for proper development, there will be no malfunctions with the intestines with the growth of the dog. York or Spitz puppies begin to feed later than puppies of other breeds. Having reached a month, puppies acquire the right to try meat or high-quality food intended for puppies. In the future, the selected food will become the main food in the puppy menu and the nutrition of an adult dog.
The puppy give light and safe meat. The body of a small pet is not always able to learn the protein of fresh meat, the first months is recommended to slightly boil the product for feed. Remember, the main benefit will be used to feed raw unprocessed meat. Preventing the possibility of a PSA disease with infectious diseases, it is required when buying to choose fresh products that have undergone proper quality control. It is recommended to give meat that has passed once a complete freezing or diluted with boiling water.
Dry dog food by the age of the pet
The main differences in food for dogs of the first days of life and adults are a high content of calories and concentration. There are more proteins, calcium and other elements in puppy canned foods. Its composition is extremely respected by requests for the complete saturation of the growing organism of the puppy.
In feeding an adult dog, an excess of protein is no longer required, in the case of an overdose in the future, troubles with internal organs are likely. Excessive calcium content in nutrition can cause stones in the bladder. The oversaturation of phosphorus will lead to a change in the structure of the bones. It is not recommended to give an adult dog the puppy food.
The bitch, bearing offspring, act as an exception. For the proper development of the fetus, females need an increased dose of proteins and the presence of vitamins in nutrition. In the period of four months of pregnancy, the dog is supposed to be transferred to food designed for puppies.
If you feed the puppy with food intended for an adult dog, no changes are found from a small number of feedings. The constant feeding of the puppy with adult feed will certainly affect appearance and behavior. Your baby will cease to look saturated, when taking adult foods, it will not receive the necessary proteins and carbohydrates. The absence of vitamins will affect the dull wool of the pet, will respond with weakness of the skeleton, passivity and lethargy in behavior.
Portations for a pet
To determine the volume of portions for feeding, the calorie content of the selected dry food is considered. It is required to find out the weight of the pet.
- It is recommended to give 400-600 g of feed to large dogs with weight starting with 35 kilograms.
- Animals with medium weight (15-35 kilograms) give an average of 300-400 g of food.
- An animals with weight not exceeding 15 kilograms should give food in the range of 150-300 g.
To feed the pet, it is necessary to divide the portion of the food into the number of feedings per day. For convenience, it is recommended to have kitchen scales on hand, with which it is easy to accurately measure the necessary dose of feeding, in separate packs with dry feed there are measured cups. If absent, you have to calculate a portion approximately. Statistics say that 100 grams of dry dog food are two or three tablespoons, or half a faceted glass. Often the owners use folk dexterity and adhere to proportions: they give a tablespoon of feed per kilogram of weight of the pet.
Is it worth recently born dogs to feed often
Small fluffy lumps are a large accumulation of energy. One gets the impression that a small friend is ready to run for days on a day, pursue a shadow or own tail. Neraveless energy is required to nourish. Add active growth here, and it will become clear why the puppy requires a calorie nutrition than for an adult dog.
The stomach of the recently born pet, who did not form enough, is not able to cope with large portions of feed. The daily diet is ordered to divide into small portions. At first life, small puppies are recommended to feed about 4-5 times a day, gradually reducing the number of feedings with the growth of the puppy.
The fooding of an adult animal and the regime of eating is built on other principles. It is supposed to take into account that by the time of feeding the dog the previous food is digested and extracted from the body. To load the digestive system of the pet with daily feeding during the day is to provoke the inevitable development of pathologies in the intestines of a four-legged friend.
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