Advertising from TV screens insistently assures that eating ready-made food of a popular brand, your pet will always be healthy and cheerful. However, many do not buy these colorful bags with incomprehensible dry granules or pates, but feed their four-legged friends with natural food. There are enough advantages: natural food is cheaper and healthier.
Instructions
Step 1
First you need to remember that the dog should not eat in order to avoid health problems: - Pork. Firstly, this meat is fatty, which will not have the best effect on the condition of the dog's liver and pancreas. Secondly, the consumption of raw pork threatens to become infected with helminths;
- Potatoes and legumes. The dog, by nature, does not digest them well;
- Fried foods. They are not very useful for people either, and a dog can lead to chronic diseases of the pancreas;
-Sausage. For the same, or even less money, you can buy offal for your pet. The benefits from them are much more than from fatty sausages.
- Sweets. They are absolutely unnecessary for the dog and are harmful to the teeth. Of course, you can give a cookie, but there should not be any sweets and chocolate in the animal's diet. We don't brush our dogs teeth twice a day! The best treat for a dog is a piece of meat. And there are now enough special delicacies for four-legged in pet stores.
- There is an opinion that a dog's favorite treat is a bone! Yes, if it's a sugar bone. But in no case give the animal tubular chicken bones, which easily injure the esophagus and stomach. Cooked bones also do not need to be chewed on by the animal - they easily flake off and clog the stomach.
Step 2
While the puppy is still small, he, like the child, needs to eat a little, but often and varied. The animal's diet must include dairy products - cottage cheese, kefir. Milk, of course, too, but an adult dog absorbs calcium better from fermented milk products. Give your baby semolina - it is nutritious and promotes good weight gain, oatmeal. It is better to give the puppy meat at night - so he will be full and will not wake up from hunger in the middle of the night. A two month old baby needs to be fed 5 times a day. But the portion should be small. Over time, the amount of food per feeding increases, and the number of feedings decreases. By the age of one, two times are enough - in the morning and in the evening, although many owners and breeders feed their pets once in the middle of the day.
Step 3
You can cook a variety of porridge, but it is better - easily boiled: rice, buckwheat, wheat groats. But the dogs do not digest barley and corn porridge very well. In principle, a dog can eat one kind of porridge all its life. But you can diversify the diet and alternate cereals. The meat does not have to be a tenderloin, but boiling the broth on the bones alone is not very satisfying. A variety of organ meats work best for dogs. Beef kidneys, they smell awful. In addition, the trebuch often has to be rinsed and cut into pieces of the desired size in advance - it is not always possible to find it clean and cut on the market. But these products contain a huge amount of useful trace elements. There have been cases when, with the introduction of kidneys into the diet, the dog stopped gnawing on shoes and picking up everything on the street.
Step 4
You can boil the meat products and add the broth to the porridge, bringing it to the consistency of a thick soup. Or you can give them raw. It's even better. It is true that cooked food is preferable in summer, because meat quickly deteriorates in hot weather. If your dog is medium-sized, then it is not necessary to prepare food for it separately. Many foods on your table will do. Porridge, soups, borsch. Just remove the potatoes from the soups. But if the dog is large, then separate and rather rather large portions will have to be cooked. Expect 5 liter pots of dog food to boil in your kitchen every day.
Step 5
Keep in mind, however, that vitamins should be given to your dog when feeding natural food. After all, they are already in ready-made feed. Choose multivitamin complexes containing all vitamins, minerals, yeast. The pet store seller will help you make your choice. There are vitamins for puppies, for adult active dogs, for large breeds. In addition, you can from time to time share scraps of vegetables and fruits - cabbage, carrots, apples. Most dogs adore them.
