Not all owners of pets think that dogs, also as well as to people, need a full complex of vitamins. If your pet long time strongly fades or does not show such activity as earlier, perhaps, it is worth beginning to give it special vitamins for dogs.
Instruction
1. Before giving vitamins to a dog, estimate her diet. If you feed her with special sterns, then on packing of any of them there has to be a table with structure and the list of the vitamins entering a forage. Study this table and on its basis draw conclusions on what vitamin your canine friend can receive less.
2. Need of a dog for vitamins is affected by such factors as growth and age of an animal, his temperament, conditions in which the dog contains. In most cases vitamins are required for a dog during her growth, reproduction, feeling sick. Adult dogs recover from various diseases much quicker if they accept vitamins necessary for them.
3. The most important vitamins for a dog – A and D. Of course, also other vitamins are required for an animal, but it receives many of them adequately from the food, and others are required only during certain periods. Vitamin A is responsible for work of kidneys, visual acuity, adjustment of functions of salivary glands. The lack of this vitamin causes the increased tendency to various infections, diseases. The leading role of vitamin D is a support of the correct growth of a dog.
4. B1, B2, B6, B12 vitamins well influence skin and muscles, protect an animal from anemia, recover nervous system. On skin the intake of F and H vitamins also well makes impact. Vitamin E, and vitamin C, as well as for the person is responsible for fertility and successful reproduction, serves as protection against infectious diseases.
5. The lack of any given vitamin can be determined by behavior of a dog: if the dog gnaws a brick, eats the earth, plaster, it lacks calcium, chews your shoe insoles – the dog most likely lacks group B vitamins, selects stubs – it is worth beginning to give to a dog vitamin P. If hair of a dog became dry and tousled, there was dacryagogue, the eye cornea dimmed - the animal lacks vitamin A. At rickets at a dog forearm bones are bent, it is possible to see that her hinder legs become H-shaped.
6. When choosing vitamins for a dog and before beginning a course of any of them consult to the veterinarian - the overdose of any given vitamin can do to an animal harm.