The healthy and balanced food of a dog of any breed is the key to its normal development and strong immunity. Owners of golden retrievers should be guided by some rules at selection of a forage for the pets. Pay attention that the frequency of feedings and amount of necessary food directly depend on age of a dog.
Instruction
1. From early age of a golden retriever it is necessary to accustom to eat food in certain time. On the one hand, such rule is very convenient for the owner of a dog. However the bigger value in this case plays granting an animal to an organism fully to digest and acquire the used forage. You should not overfeed a pet at all.
2. Puppies of a golden retriever aged up to 3 months should be fed not less than five times a day. It is enough to adult dog to provide two-three meals a day in day. Pay attention that irrespective of age, the animal has to be provided with continuous access to drinking water.
3. It is necessary to transfer to three meals a day of a golden retriever after 6 months of life. Otherwise the puppy can not only get used to frequent meals, but also gain excess weight that will cause a number of diseases of digestive system and will affect the general development of an organism.
4. Experts developed three programs of feeding of a golden retriever. The dog can be fed with the balanced dry feeds, to make a food complex exclusively natural products or to combine several types of food.
5. If you choose a feeding complex as dry feeds for a golden retriever, then it is necessary to give preference only to those mixes which are developed for this breed. Experts develop such forages taking into account all features of a dog. It is impossible to feed a golden retriever, for example, with mixes for pugs or decorative breeds.
6. Experts recommend to feed golden retrievers with sterns of categories "super-premium" and "premium". Before purchase of mix it is necessary to study attentively information on packing. Pay attention to recommendations which concern age, weight and the frequency of feedings of your dog.
7. At a food allowance on the basis of natural products there have to be fish, crude and boiled meat, meat soups, eggs, bones, dairy products, vegetables and grain. Such complex has the features. For a dog food natural products – the ideal option of feeding, but from the owner is required much free time and efforts to cooking.
8. Complex feeding of a golden retriever means use in a food allowance of both dry feeds, and natural products. As additional food in this case use cottage cheese, meat, fish, bones, soups and croups. Options of feedings just alternate.