Retrievers call not one kind of dogs, but the whole group of six breeds. All of them are united that they treat hunting dogs to which duties belongs to find and bring the killed game. But despite the "hunting" status, retrievers are very popular also as pets now. They are loved not only for beautiful and noble appearance, but also for friendly and appeasable character. Therefore very often retrievers appear even in families where there are small children. If you decided to get a retriever, you need to study a large amount of nuances of its contents. One of important questions is food of a dog.
Instruction
1. The first what it is necessary to begin with, is preparation of ware for feeding of your retriever. Experts recommend to use metal bowls which are more durable than the plastic analogs and better wash. Besides, do not stint to buy a special support for a bowl that it did not stand on a floor, and was at the level of the top part of paws of an animal. Thus, you keep to a dog a correct posture.
2. Forming a diet for a retriever, you can choose one of three options.
3. Traditional when feeding is carried out only natural produktamiv this case in a diet of a dog there have to be a meat, low-fat fish, vegetables, porridges, dairy products. Choosing meat for a retriever, give preference to tendons, kidneys, a liver, heart. Do not give tubular bones at all – they can injure a stomach or a gullet. From dairy products give preference to cottage cheese, curdled milk or kefir. Retrievers acquire milk badly. Retrievers should give bread in limited quantity, it is desirable black. The traditional way of feeding is optimum for a dog, but only in case you managed to pick up the balanced diet that it is easy to determine by appearance of a retriever.
4. The dry kormvariant of feeding of your pet exclusively dry feed removes a question of thorough selection of a diet and balance of necessary minerals and nutrients. However, and here not everything is simple. Modern producers offer such huge choice of forages that it is easy for the beginning sobakoved to get confused. Try to buy the dry feed of the famous producer corresponding to the weight and age of your dog. For a start try various options of a forage, find an optimal variant which will not cause allergies and will be pleasant to your dog.
5. The mixed option when the retriever is fed with both a dry, and natural forage. Recommendations about selection of a forage remain the same, as in the previous options, but do not forget that it is necessary to divide a diet. In one feeding give to a dog only a dry feed, in the following – only natural.
6. 2 times a day are recommended to feed an adult retriever. You watch that your pet was neither too thin, nor excessively chubby, and then the healthy and balanced food will become pledge of good mood and health of your dog.