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How Often Should I Feed My Dog? Here Are Some Tips to Answer That
Many dog owners would like to know how often they should feed their
dogs and you are not an exception. A puppy in its first six weeks must be fed milk five to seven times a day. The puppy will alert you, its owner, through sound. As the puppy grows older and moves beyond six weeks, the frequency drops. Once the dog reaches four weeks old, it can start taking some solid food. Your puppies introduction to solid food is cautionary though as you will have to only feed him twice a day on solid. The reason for this is to watch out if the dog develops diarrhea and if it does, discontinue the new feeding regimen. This is due to trial and error. However, your dog’s eating of solid food should increase to two to three times daily once the dog reaches eight weeks. However, if the dog is still hungry, then provide it with some extra food. This however varies with different breeds. You must avoid feeding your dog too many times in this age group. Between the third and sixth month, the puppy will be teething. Consequently, restrict the feeding to twice only but it must be balanced lest the dog develop deficiency based symptoms. From six months to one year, strive using puppy food that is commercially available. However, once the dog reaches a year, adult food may be given more and more. From this time on, its food may comprise of only adult food. However, when the dog becomes an elder dog, restrict the frequency of feeding since the movements of such adult dogs are much reduced. However, the pregnant animal may be fed an extra time depending on the willingness of the animal. As always, never compromise on the quality of food you give your dog. |
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How Often Should I Feed My Dog? Here Are Some Tips to AnswerThat
Better yet, get rid of the puppy food except for the bitch in her last
half of pregnancy and while nursing. Use the puppy food for weaning and until about the 7th to 9th week, then move to a top quality adult food. The puppy will grow at a more normal rate and not spend several months acting like a child on a "sugar high", just be normally active. The puppy should go to it's new home in the 10th week, but certainly not before the 8th week. It needs to stay with mom and littermates for valuable education in being a dog, bite inhibition, and early housetraining. From about 6 months through the rest of it's life, most dogs should be fed twice a day, in equal amounts per feeding. When you don't know anything about the subject, please refrain from posting and sticking your foot so far in your mouth that it should choke you. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia |
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How Often Should I Feed My Dog? Here Are Some Tips to AnswerThat
Yeh..... This dingleberry doesn't know enough to spot inaccuracies.
Geezle..... I'm very conservative with use of supplements; the only one I use preventively is for joints, and there's some evidence from a study on GSDs that it's helpful. But then, given the poor regulation of the supplement industry, and Consumer Union's two tests on a few of the joint supplements in recent years, showing very poor quality control when it comes to actual amounts of glucosamine in pet versions.... one has to be curious about such things.... and not be in a rush to try the latest fad.... human or canine.... unless there is a clear reason. And know enough to tell whether something really IS working or not. That said, years ago, before we had decent foods available around here, I did add a carefully selected multivitamin for the old guys, and when one of them had a low hematocrit, the vet had me add freeze-dried liver daily.... 4 cubes. Old Max was Thrilled, and it worked. There used to be a young "holistic" vet down on the SC coast who showed up at the shows and big matches, peddling all sorts of supplements, including one to stop cataracts developing. Yeh, sure. He was one of those guys who came across as the stereotypical used car salesman. Predictably, he came to grief over something (in his personal life?) and just up and left, deserting the clientele who had trusted him to keep fleecing them.... and were amazed to discover that all they'd done was support his lifestyle, when their dogs showed no change when they didn't have any more of his nostrums to stuff into them. We now have one older vet who bills himself as holistic (not my choice to trust my dogs to to start with), and one who is a good experienced vet who has just moved into more non-traditional care without making a big deal of it... who I would consult in a heartbeat. (She's about 45 minutes from here.... or she'd be my regular vet. Have known her since I moved here in '87; she not only was my favorite breeder's vet, but co-owned the brother of my heart dog, and travelled with us now and then to show him herself.) It also helps to be a skeptic and to understand a little differential anatomy, physiology and psychology.... to say nothing of pharmacology. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia |
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How Often Should I Feed My Dog? Here Are Some Tips to Answer That
The articles SnugglyLilPets (gag) has
posted here appear to have been written by people who also submit blog articles on other, very unrelated topics. I believe the term here is "content farm", which refers to a webpage with bogus content that exists solely to boost the Google Search ranking of their clients' pages (JCPenney recently got hit for this). There are scads of these that grab output from usenet as a suitable source of searchable text to the throw links inside/next to, and some of them even pretend to be forum sites in the process. Another term is SEO, search engine optimization. In other words, trying to make an end run around the rules in the hope that the computers and programmers at google won't see it... --Glenn Lyford |
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How Often Should I Feed My Dog? Here Are Some Tips to AnswerThat
Glenn..... Veddy inter-rr-rresting.
And just because it's (what ever "it" happens to be) on Oprah doesn't make it true.... {GRIN} Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia |
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