How to feed a puppy of a Yorkshire terrier
Choosing a food allowance for your pet, do not forget, the Yorkshire terrier is a small doggie at which the system of digestion is arranged very delicately. Perhaps, rather large animal will not react to the spoiled products or badly balanced food. And in a small organism of a Yorkshire terrier it can lead to serious violations.
Instruction
1. At the age of 2-4 months to feedof puppy 4-5 times a day are necessary. Food of a Yorkshire terrier has to be full and high-calorie, contain necessary mineral substances and vitamins. Food of a puppy has to contain boiled meat with rice, boiled eggs two times a week, fermented milk products, vegetables and fruit, two times a week can be given boiled sea fish.
2. When the puppy is 4 months old, gradually reduce the number of feedings to 3 times. For a Yorkshire terrier this period of life very intense as puberty begins, comes change of teeth and growth of a puppy still continues. Therefore very much you show consideration for the puppy.
3. During from 6 to 9 months, continue to feed the pet 3 times a day. Food during this period also does not differ from food at the previous stages. Yorkshire terrier needs to be fed with the same set of products. To this age at a puppy the main growth comes to an end and there was already a change of teeth. However, the formation of muscles and frame is not completed yet and there is it during this period of development of a dog. Therefore do not forget to feed a puppy with good quality meat in enough.
4. Aged 9-12 months reduce the number of feedings to two times. The food of the pet has to be varied and full as formation of a puppy still continues. You feed the pet better in the morning and in the evening. In a diet of a Yorkshire terrier has to be: meat, not less than five times a week, fish and eggs, on two times a week, every day vegetables and porridge. Give meat boiled together with rice, exclude mutton and pork. It is the best of all to crush eggs small. Surely give vegetables with vegetable oil and small cut. Use fish only boiled and sea before feeding a puppy make sure that in her there are no small stones. Small crumbled fish it is possible to mix with porridge or vegetables.
toy. But it not so, approach to education and feeding of such doggie has to be twice more serious, than to food of dogs of the usual size. The correct feeding – guarantee of health of a dog and her great appearance.
Instruction
1. Buying a puppy of a Yorkshire terrier, in detail ask the manufacturer as well as what the kid ate and what mode of this food was. In the first 3-4 weeks adhere to those recommendations and that food allowance to which the manufacturer followed.
2. After the puppy is 3 months old, do him the second vaccination and begin to transfer him to other food. If you on the advice of your veterinarian decided to feed him with a dry feed of industrial production, then use only the forage intended for puppies. You feed him three times a day and do not leave food in a bowl if he did not eat up the portion.
3. Observe a diet and you feed a dog at the same time. Adhere to norms of food, they are designed for dogs of certain age. The bowl with water has to be at the same time always full. Change its contents several times a day.
4. In case you decided to feed a puppy with natural products, you should work that the menu was varied and balanced for your small dog. All products have to be ideally fresh and it is necessary to give them on strictly calculated norms. If at the age of 3 months you began to transfer a dog to a new forage, make it gradually, within 10-14 days, replacing an old forage with new products.
5. The puppy can only give meat boiled, it can be: rabbit, turkey, chicken, beef or mutton. From grain – give preference to boiled rice and buckwheat. From dairy products it is better for puppy to offer: kefir, fermented baked milk and curdled milk. Cottage cheese is obligatory in the menu. It needs to be parted with kefir to a condition of liquid sour cream and to knead a fork that it was easier for puppy to swallow.
6. The weight of one portion of food should not exceed norms – 1 tablespoon with the hill of a forage on half a kilo of its weight. If it weighs 1 kg, then its portion – 2 tablespoons of a forage. After 3 months the portion of fermented baked milk or kefir is not considered full feeding any more and has to be complemented with other food.
7. In a diet of a puppy there have to be not less than 50% of meat. It can also give boiled vegetables, but about half a year their quantity should not exceed 1 tablespoon a day. After half a year in the menu raw vegetables have to appear. Avoid to give it fat, sweet, strongly salty or fried food and exclude delicious products: candies, red fish, caviar, hard cheeses – for the kid it is junk and heavy food.