The smallest breed of dog on the planet it is recognized as a chihuahua. If adult doggies weigh from 1 to 3 kg, then puppies of a chihuahua are simply tiny. But it does not prevent them to be playful and vigorous, like representatives of dogs of other breeds at all. How it is correct to feed such little puppy?
Instruction
1. The only food for a puppy aged up to three weeks is the breast milk of mother providing a balanced set of proteins, fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Bait in the form of peas from beef meat and cottage cheese is recommended to begin to give only after three-week age. The quantity of food has to increase gradually, and the dose should not exceed several pieces a day.
2. Usually depriving from mother is carried out for 32-35 day of life, but it is necessary to keep in contact further: for ensuring the correct functioning of the immune system. puppieschihuahuaIt is impossible to overfeed with at all as excessive fat is capable to deform the developing skeletal system. The sufficiency of a forage can be defined, having probed edges of a puppy. If they contain small amount of fat, then it is necessary to increase a dose of a forage a little and gradually. If on the contrary, edges are hidden by fat, but are palpated rather freely, so food of a puppy is picked up optimum.
3. Up to achievement of two-month age, puppies of a chihuahua are fed by about 6 times a day, then smoothly reduce the number of feedings up to 5 times within two next months, then up to 4 – from 4 to 6 months, and so to one-year-old age. Many owners of such dogs often think of what forage is better - dry, ready, or natural. On the one hand, ready forages are always balanced on caloric content, are vitamin-rich also minerals that quite conforms to requirements of a dog according to her age. But it is always necessary to remember that natural food contains nutrients which are acquired by an organism of a dog much better. Therefore it is better to combine.
4. From natural and natural products the puppies are usually given in the form of forcemeat beef meat, previously within several minutes processed by boiled water. And here pork from a diet of a chihuahua is excluded completely because of its excessive fat content. Still these lovely creatures belong with love for seafood. The puppy of a chihuahua can give sea fish, also in the form of forcemeat. The pollock which is not acquired by an organism in any way and also fat species of fish is contraindicated. It is impossible to feed a chihuahua with hot or cold food, sausage, milk. It is important to remember that any sweet is irreversible influences eyes, teeth and a digestive tract of a dog.