Each owner of the one-poodle is this cute, as if toy, dogs - certainly thinks about how to feed your pet. A competent diet allows an animal to be active and strong.
Fundamental rules
- Feed on schedule and in a specific place. A puppy under the age of 3 months is supplied to feed 5-6 times a day. If the poodle is already 3 months, the food is reduced to 4 times a day. The pet that has reached 6-12 months is enough to fill the bowl three times a day.
- A bowl with food should be comfortably standing at the chest level.
- Tea PSA Do not ask for food from the table.
- If the dog in the apartment is not alone, it follows each of the animals to allocate an individual plate.
- After receiving food, a bowl is recommended to penetrate well and remove.
- Provide free access to clean water.
- Make sure that dinner and breakfast owner do not coincide with the feeding time poodle.
- Do not mix dairy food with meat.
Types of feeding
Natural food
If the owner stopped on natural nutrition, he needs certain knowledge to prepare such food and a lot of patience, since it is impossible to predict the reaction of the dog on the food.
First of all, it is necessary to know which products the animal is allowed.
- Meat . It is mandatory cut into slices or skipped through a meat grinder. For everyday nutrition take turkey, beef, chicken, liver. Kids can begin to feed with meat from 2-2.5 weeks.
- Eggs . Permissible quantity - two per week. The excess of this norm entails the emergence of allergies.
- Kefir, milk, cottage cheese or homemade yogurt. Milk is allowed to give in raw form in the amount of 0.1-1 l per day. In addition, the calcined cottage cheese is most beneficial. For its preparation, half-liter milk takes, bring to boil and put in it 1 tablespoon of calcium chloride. Waiting until the milk will be treated, leaving the resulting mass for gauze.
- Cheering liquid porridge: Buckwheat, rice, pebble, oatmeal. Water in which it is brewed, you do not need to cheat. Suitable for feeding not only adult dogs, but also puppies.
- A fish . It is allowed to give it no more than three times a week. Sea fish in the fused state is fed in the untreated form. As for river fish, it is advisable to cook it. File must certainly be released from the internships, scales and bones.
- Fruits, berries and vegetables. The choice is large here: tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, beets, zucchini, apples, carrots, strawberries, radish. They are accepted to rub on a sharper or stifle with small cubes. You can make a salad fastened with fish oil or sour cream. It is different: add raw vegetables or non-heat treatment fruits in the finished porridge. Another option is to cook them with a cereal.
- If the dog does not refuse greens (Dandelion leaves, nettle, spinach, dill, parsley and a different greens from the garden), it can be added to a bowl with a ready-made meal or rain separately.
Optionally, vitamin or mineral additives are combined with natural nutrition.
It is useful to introduce a marine cabbage and linen seeds, crushed in a coffee grinder. With a deficiency of mineral elements in the pet organism, yeast, coal, bone flour, which give a poodle in a pair of teaspoons every day.
To maintain a full-fledged healthy life of the PSA for 1 kilogram of mass per day, it is necessary:
- Proteins - 4-5 grams;
- Mineral salts - 8-10 grams;
- Carbohydrates - 12-15 grams;
- Vitamins: PP - 10 mg, a - 1-5 mg, C-10 mg, in - 2-3, 5 mg;
- Fats - 1-2 grams.
Recommended dog diet per day:
- cereals - 200 gr;
- fruits, vegetables - 150 gr;
- meat - 200 grams;
- Dairy products and milk - 100 gr.
Dry food
The use of dry feed simplifies the care of the poodle. You can teach puppies from 1-3 months of life.
Granules already provide for the optimal amount of dried vegetables, meat, mineral, vitamin and flavoring elements.
The transition from the feed cooked at home to the industrial should be made in slower, for 10-14 days.
There are several types of dry product: economy, medium, premium, superfire and holistic.
While the poodle is small, it is recommended to treat a super premium class. Such feed already contains minerals and vitamins, helping the right construction and growth of the organism of a young dog. In case the pet suffers from allergies, it is possible to purchase a hypoallergenic option.
At first, dry puppies are swollen in water.
When the animal has reached the age of 2-6 years and has no health problems, it can be given the feed of the medium line. However, it is mandatory to additionally attach a complex of minerals and vitamins to the diet.
If the elderly or old dog is advised to buy the feed of the ruler holder or SuperPremium . If the poodle began to fall out their teeth, the dry food should be changed to the semi-lane.
But the feed of the ruler of the economy is rejected, because they are made in general from waste of meat products and legumes, and therefore do not bring benefits. In contrast, such food can harm due to salts contained in its composition, reinforcing the taste of ingredients, and dyes.
The most popular companies producing dry food are: Purina Pro Plan, Eukanuba, Hill's, Acana and Royal Canin.
Mixed nutrition
Veterinary doctors cannot unambiguously recognize the benefit of this type of animal care. Such a nutrition is expressed in the combination of dry feed with cottage cheese, vegetables, meat. Porridge, as a rule, do not mix with an industrial dry product. Many believe that the addition in the form of kefira or prokobivashi tones the internal intestinal environment. It is forbidden to change meals within one day, that is, to feed porridge for breakfast, and for dinner - dry food. This negatively affects the work of the gallbladder and the pancreas.
What products to give prohibited?
The caring owner will try to avoid feeding the PSU products that can cause malfunction problems. This can be attributed:
- sweets;
- peas;
- biscuits;
- chocolate;
- mutton;
- Smoked, pickles, pickled food;
- fat meat;
- sausages;
- bones (fish, bird, beef);
- beans;
- very thick porridge;
- sausage;
- salt;
- spices;
- caramel;
- Pasting products (processed, swung);
- egg shell;
- onion;
- nuts;
- beer;
- Garnet;
- canned fish;
- honey;
- grapes, raisins;
- plums;
- apricots;
- Fresh bread, pasta;
- pork;
- soy.
Sweeteners are very dangerous for poodles, especially Xylitis. Honey, despite its favor, can provoke allergies. Feeding with sweets entails a violation of metabolism, obesity and otitis. Tubular bones are capable of injury to the stomach of the animal.
All types of sausages and smokers harm the intestine of the PSA, provoking the wrong work of the liver, pancreas, indigestion.
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