Feeding of a dog is a responsible stage in keeping of the pet. The dog needs the balanced food. Therefore it is necessary to pick up a forage the richest in vitamins and minerals. If necessary to pass to other forage it is necessary to pay attention to this question.
Animals, as well as people are subject to indigestions. Therefore it is necessary to transfer a dog to other forage gradually. The dog needs to be transferred to a new forage in time, not less than ten days. It is connected with the fact that in an organism of a dog as an organism of each animal, there are useful bacteria which participate in process of digestion of food. At sharp change of a diet the quantity of bacteria sharply changes, and they do not bring the required benefit. Indigestion, diarrhea, vomiting, gas generation or a lock is result.
Scheme of the transfer to a new forage
The dog needs to be accustomed to a forage in 10-12 days. This period needs to be divided into 4 parts – for 2-3 days. In the first 2-3 days prepare single norm of a forage as follows: mix 75% of an old forage from 25% of a new forage. In the second 2-3 days prepare single norm of a forage in a proportion of 50% of old and 50% of a new forage. In the next 2-3 days – 25% of old and 75% new. The final stage is existence in a diet of 100% of a new forage. If in process of transformation from one forage in another the condition of a dog and a chair did not change, continue to feed further according to the scheme. Otherwise, from a new forage it is necessary to refuse and choose another. If the dog eats a forage in the first day with a reluctance, it is necessary to reduce a share of a new forage. Let's tell, to increase forage volume not by 25%, and for 20 or 10%. Thus, the term of the transfer to a new forage needs to be divided not into 4, and on 5-10 parts. Too it is expedient to increase the term of the translation that the dog got used to taste and a smell of a new forage.
Types of a forage
Each forage is focused on certain breeds of dog and comprises micro and the macrocells directed to maintenance of health of your pet. For example, each manufacturing firm in the assortment has puppy food, the sterile, feeding and aged animals. It is connected with the fact that during a certain period of life various set of vitamins and minerals for increase in activity or maintenance of a certain body or a system, for example, is necessary for an animal for maintenance of function of a liver or an urinogenital system. On the appearance the forages are divided into dry – moisture content less than 14% (the granulated forage, ship's biscuits, croquets, other), moist (boiled meat with the content of preservatives) and a stern with the high content of moisture – the frozen and preserved meat foods.