Her health and mood depends on food of a dog. Dogs are forced to eat what I give them owners. But whether always you correctly feed the canine friend? The St. Bernard – a dog unusual – large, strong, with a beautiful length wool and therefore requires to himself special attention and caring attitude.
Instruction
1. Buying a puppy, take an interest at the manufacturer, than he was fed and adhere to the same diet at least at first of the pet's life at you.
2. You feed a St. Bernard from a support which height increase with growth of your pet. The bowl has to be located at the level of a breast of an animal - it will provide it convenience during meal and also will promote formation of a correct posture.
3. Accustom a dog from early age is in the same place, from the same bowl or a pan (rather wide as the dog has a large muzzle and the narrow bowl during process of food will give it an inconvenience).
4. Warm up food surely, it has to be warm, but is not hotter. It will help to save an animal from problems with digestion possible in the future.
5. You watch that your pet did not overeat: - if after feeding the stomach of a dog strongly increases – it is necessary to reduce norm of feeding; - if the dog continues to lick actively after a meal a bowl – the portion should be increased as the St. Bernard does not gorge on. Overeating leads to deformation of a backbone and extremities and weighting of a dog why she becomes sluggish and slow. Constant malnutrition results in leanness, a frequent molt, decrease in immunity and, as a result, to various diseases.
6. Take into account that the frequency of feeding of a dog depending on age significantly changes: - puppies of 1.5-3 months should be fed 6 times a day (for a puppy of one and a half months a joy the volume of food has to be about 1-1.5 glasses on one feeding). Depending on age the daily and single volume of food has to increase, - 2-3-month-old puppies - 5 times a day, - 3-4-month-old puppies - 4 times a day, - in 4-10-месячнoм age - 3 times, - from 10 months - 2 times. Adult dogs (especially in hot time of year) should be fed in the evenings - one time a day.
7. The amount of the consumed food of a dog increases depending on age. So, for example, the amount of meat given to puppies aged from 1.5 months till 1 year changes from 150 g to 600 g, fish sea - from 200 g to 500 g, the cottage cheese calcinated from 70 g to 400 g, porridge - from 80 g to 250 g, vegetables - from 50 g to 200 g, fermented milk products - from 100 g to 500 g a day.
8. Put in food to a St. Bernard enough the crude meat cut on pieces or other meat offal. For a puppy the norm is 150-200 g on feeding, for adult dogs – 500 g.
9. Add surely to food of the pet mineral fertilizing, vitamins and the medicines containing calcium. Vitamins A, E are necessary for a puppy, are D vitamins of growth, they can be bought in pharmacy in the liquid state (so it is simpler to give them to a dog). A St. Bernard – a large animal therefore its frame needs continued calcic support throughout all life. For this purpose at a food allowance there have to be daily lactic products, cottage cheese, fresh vegetables, boiled eggs, sea fish.
10. It is possible to organize the mixed feeding of a puppy of a St. Bernard. Only it is necessary to consider that such feeding is not one year a subject of disputes among veterinarians who cannot come to one opinion on advantage or harm of the mixed feeding and feeding only by dry feeds. In case of the mixed feeding give to a puppy the calcinated cottage cheese in the morning, and for the night - the scalded crude meat. At the same time it is necessary to add to a puppy diet calcium medicine (on average approximately about the third part of the day norm specified usually on packing). Nuances and details of such feeding need to be specified at experts: veterinarians and dog handlers.
11. Transition to a dry feed (at the similar choice of the mode of feeding) from feeding by natural products should be made gradually, at least within a week, replacing with a dry feed one behind another of feeding. The size of the recommended portions has to meet the standards specified on packing with a forage. At the same time it is necessary to give to the pet the chance of continuous access to clear drinking water.
12. Give to an adult St. Bernard crude bones and cartilages which contain not only calcium but also other mineral substances. Razgryzaniye of bones also promotes clarification of teeth and strengthens gums. Puppies have to have an opportunity to gnaw the connected tendons sold in specialized shops usually in the form of stones for dogs.
13. Do not give to a dog at any age tubular bird's bones, bones from fish, confectionery which can cause allergies.
14. Add some salt slightly to food for a dog, but it is much less, than itself not to cause in it constant feeling of thirst.
15. Change drinking water every day. The bowl with water has to be in the place, available to a dog, constantly.