In abundance of modern dry and tinned dog food it is possible to become puzzled. However not all dog breeders consider that it is an optimum diet for their canine friends. Dogs can be fed with usual food and in some cases it is even necessary. But it is worth remembering that not scraps from a master's table, and specially prepared natural forage have to get to a bowl to a dog.
Meat component
Meat has to make every day two thirds of the main diet of a dog. Veterinarians recommend to buy lamb, pair beef, horse-flesh, rabbit flesh. Pork it is necessary to refuse because of high fat content, veal – because of an amount of nutrients, small in comparison with beef. Fowl (chickens, turkeys) can be given, but it is necessary to enter them into a diet gradually, watching physiological reactions of a dog (functioning of digestive system, a condition of leather, wool). Before imposing fowl in a bowl, skin with it as it contains too much fat, your pet, pernicious for a liver. Dogs cannot give any tubular bones. They can wound a gullet and to become the cause of dangerous internal bleeding.
The meat chosen by you for a dog needs to be given in the raw. If it was frozen, it is necessary to defreeze it at the room temperature. You should not cook meat as at heat treatment the most part of nutrients will be lost. You should not cut, small to cut or pass via the meat grinder meat which you are going to give to a dog. It can excessively spoil an animal and also will make teeth and a stomach too "gentle".
Instead of meat always or in some separate days it is possible to use an offal. Kidneys, a liver, heart, an udder also should be given crude. In some cases they should be washed out, soaked well in cold water (if the unpleasant smell is caught) and to scald boiled water. Remember that an offal is less nutritious forage in comparison with meat therefore them it is necessary more. Do not buy meat and an offal for dogs "privately", at acquaintances, on the next farm or in the spontaneous market. As a rule, such meat does not undergo sanitary inspection and can become an etiology of a dog. Sometimes it is necessary to include a sea or ocean fish in a diet of dogs, previously having saved her from bones. Try to choose low-fat grades: they contain a huge number micro and macrocells. Protect an animal from any red fish: she can become the cause of the severe allergy.
Other products
Fermented milk products favorably affect health of animals. Their dogs should give daily. Once and for all forget about fermented baked milk, sweet yogurts, sour cream. Stop the choice on low-fat cottage cheese (5-9 percent), kefir better (to 3.5 percent of fat content), curdled milk. 2-3 times a week can be added to fermented milk products crude eggs and bran. Such food has to be separate meal and not mix up with meat. Dogs need to give vegetables surely. Usually dog breeders recommend carrots, cabbage, paprika, cucumbers, beet, squash, eggplants, pumpkin. All this can be offered both separately, and together. Vegetables are recommended to be cut, grated or passed small via the meat grinder. Such food in pure form the dog is hardly will become therefore it is better to connect it to meat. Try to accustom a dog to sauerkraut. It contains a lot of vitamin C. The animal can give 2-3 tablespoons of sauerkraut few times in a week. The set of vitamins and other useful substances contains in lettuce leaves, fennel, parsley, cilantro. Except them the dog can give the young nettle which is previously scalded by boiled water, garlic glove (is not more often than 1 time a week). To give or not to dogs of grain, dog breeders argue still. Ideally better to refuse various porridges, however for the purpose of economy it is possible to cook rice, millet and buckwheat for four-footed favourites. It is impossible to give to animals oat flakes, pasta and bread at all. Too large number of porridges in a diet of a dog will lead to violation of work of digestive tract, and further to obesity, decrease in immunity, emergence and development of chronic diseases.