Feeding your puppy a proper diet isn't as complicated as it seems
Are all commercially prepared puppy foods basically the some significantly better than other? Is meat the best main ingridient, or meal, or by products, or grains, or turkey or lamb-or
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You have intoduced your puppy to the kids, cat, parakeet and iguana, you have shown the puppy its bed,its elimination satation. But one important task remains: you need to take over where your puppy's mother left off,providing it with the optimum nutrition for growing into a strong, healthy dog.
if you have researched puppy nutrition, you may feel able from a wide vriety of sources. Scanning bookstore shelves or surfing the internet quickly reveals masses
of information some of it conflicting, some of it down right dangerous often presented as logical sounding arguments by profesional sounding
people Even with the regulation regarding pet foods and pet nutrition, you'd be hard pressed to discover one commonly accepted answer to what, exaactly constitutes the best nutrition, for your puppy.
should your dog be on a vegetarian diet? Should you chuck it all and make yuor own food, or will your pup keel over if
any thing other than manufacured kibble passes its lips?
what's a whell meaning puppy owner to do?
"I come down on the side of being a little conservative" said Mary Beth Leininger, DVM, Former president of the american Veterinary Medical Assosiation and a companion animal practitioner
in plymouth,Mich. "One of the primary reasons dogs are living longer these days is better nutrition, so my rule of thumb is simply to use a good quality (commercial) food"
Sound simple, but the information on what constitutes good-qualityvpet food is profuse and sometimes conflicting. Your best bet is to consult your veterinarian whowill bw able to recommend the mos appropriate
diet for your puppy based on the breat. Activity level and other special circumstances. it boil down to common sense, said T.J Dunn Jr., DVM, a small animal nutrition consultant
who lives in Rhinelander, Wis. Dr Dunn estimates he examined about 2500,000 dogs during his 27 year in veterinary medicine.
Primarily, dogs fed a quality, meat-based diet feel, act, look and perform better than dogs evolved eating meat, not foraging in the field for grains, so it makes sense that a good dog food should be meat
based, he added.
To fine a qualilty, meat based diet read the label to see if meat is one of the primary ingredient and like it or not reconsider the price tag "pet food is ingredients and intensive, "Dr Leining said
"That means most of the cost of a dog food is based on the cost of the ingredients, so a much less expensive food will have lower quality ingredients" Dunn agreed: Ahight quality diet includes high quality protein
sources.The higher the quality inggredients, the greater the nutritive value for the dog.
For example a diet made of protein based but low quality ingredients may be high in protein but if those protein sources aren't digestible the dog won't absorb them. Heigher qualiy protein sources, such as muscle meats
like chicken and lamb, are more digestible higher quality food can be a better bargain, too, because dogs don't need to eat as much it,
Watch the following things
- A LITTLE LIGHT (LABEL) READING
- FEEDING TIME
- FAT CHANGE
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