How to Raise a Healthy and Happy Dog: The Perfect Dog Care Book. Dawn Michael
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2.Pet your dog. It is a very simple action, but conveys a lot of love to your dog. They will appreciate you a lot for it, and happen to love it. Some dogs especially love to be rubbed behind their ears or on their belly’s. It is one of the best ways to show your little puppy or dog affection.
3.Talk to them. Now, this may seem odd to you. Talk to your dog? But they can’t understand you? But the truth is dogs can understand that you are showing them love and affection by the way you talk to them when you are talking to them nicely. Make sure to give them compliments, and be in a positive mood.
4.Make sure your dog has its own little area. It will show that you respect your dog and love him enough to give him his own area to sleep and live in by himself. It should not be surrounded by boxes or anything like that. It should be alone, and by itself so that it seems like the dog’s own bedroom.
5.Reward your dog when he does something good. This will show him that you recognize that he is doing something good and shows that you appreciate his efforts to do something good. It also shows that you love him since you are noticing these things.
Those are just a couple of things that will help show your dog that you appreciate and care for them. It will make you and your dog a lot closer and help your relationship tremendously. I hope that these tips help you with your dog and that you have enjoyed all of these tips.
Feeding Your Dog
How often to feed your dog is a subject that every dog owner and lover comes across at point in time, and it is usually asked as a query. Now, feeding puppies; if the puppy is under the six weeks of age mark, then the puppies will need to get milk at about to seven times a day. Most puppies will make some type of sound if it desires to feed in general.
One time the dog reaches the six to eight weeks elderly mark then the feeding frequency can be reduced. Normally, by the time the dog hits the age of around weeks, it can start taking some solid food.
This does not mean switch them entirely to solid food at weeks. Therefore, you ought to mix the solid food with water being the more dominant of the in the food and then feed the puppy or times at the beginning. If the puppy starts developing diarrhea, then put the solid food feeding on hold for a tiny bit.
Normally, it is due to trying out new things, but you need to take some basic steps in feeding, so make positive to watch out. The frequency can be changed a couple of times, around to, after the puppies hit the eight week mark. Nevertheless, if your puppy or dog seems hungry or craving for food, then give them food without delay and think about upping your estimated feeding frequency for a tiny bit. This varies with different types of canines.
Around the age group of six months to year elderly, start trying to make use of puppy food that is obtainable at normal places commercially. From then onward, the adult food can be given to the puppy/dog gradually.
One time your puppy becomes an adult dog, you ought to confine the amount of times you feed the dog since adult canines movements are reduced significantly due to the shortage of energy, and whether or not the dog is willing to move around a lot or not. You ought to also restrict the amount of food that you give, but doing so without compromising the quality of the food.
Nevertheless, you ought to keep away from feeding your dog plenty of times when they are around this age group. Normally, when they get to be around to six months elderly, the puppies will start teething. Therefore, you ought to confine the puppies feeding to times only, but make positive they still receive a balanced diet and the nutrients they need for their age group so that they can avoid any deficiencies.
The Amount of Food to Feed
If you did a survey on the amount of food you ought to feed your dog, you would receive a bunch of different types of answers based on what they did with their own canines. Nevertheless, the truth is that dog’s diets ought to be based on how active they are which is what scientists and veterinarians have been saying for a long time.
Normally, puppies ought to not be taken away from their sister until they are at least eight weeks elderly. Nevertheless, sometimes the puppies taken away earlier do survive, but it is not lovely do so anyways. Normally, around five percent of their body weight can be taken as criteria for the amount of food that ought to be fed to the puppies. However, the amount that is eaten by canines varies by their size as well.
Nevertheless, you can make it a rule of thumb to feed the puppy until you can see a visible fullness of the abdomen to a medium degree. In case you continue feeding the puppy without taking into account what it does to the puppy’s stomach appearance, then the puppy could have diarrhea that may occur as well as some digestive upsets in them.
This might also cause some inconvenience to the dog owner same as the puppy. The reason why is because puppies must be fed more often than adult canines, but with restricted amounts of food. One time the puppy starts to get older, the amount of food given may be increased a small bit, but the frequency of feeding the dog ought to be decreased as well in most occasions.
However, canines that are on a raw diet may only consume two to four percent of their own body weight. Watch the dog’s feeding pattern closely and their body condition as well. If the dog on this diet starts becoming fat, then diminish the amount of food you give them. If the dog is becoming thinner than normal to where it does not look healthy then you ought to increase the amount of food you give them.
Foods You Shouldn’t Give Your Dog
Something very important to understand is that dog food is made to work with a dog’s dietary system and meet their nutritional needs.
A lot of people feed their dogs table scraps or people food, but the truth is that it can be dangerous to a dog's weight, health and life. Therefore, it should be avoided at all cost.
Below are a just a couple of foods which you should never feed your dog:
Caffeine and Chocolate - Both can cause diarrhea, vomiting, and can be harmful to a dog’s heart. Dogs have also died from a large consumption of chocolate.
Milk and Dairy - It causes diarrhea in dogs.
Raw Meat - Has E.Coli and Salmonella in it and can lead to vomiting and diarrhea.
Raw eggs - Has avidin in it which can lead to skin and coat issues, and possibly Salmonella poisoning.
Fat - Meat scraps that have fat have been linked to pancreatitis.
Fish - Has been known to cause vitamin deficiencies, and can cause weakness, seizures, and possibly death in dogs.
Most of these foods can normally be present in American kitchens and ought to be kept away at all costs from canines. Also keep drugs, alcohols, cleaning supplies, and automobile fluids away from places your dog can access basically.
All of this stuff may cause lots of internal destroy or even death very quickly to any animal no matter how much is consumed. The safety and health of the dog depends on the ability the owner has to make sure they don’t consume these harmful products such as these.
Diets Change
When puppies are first born they mostly feed from their brother because he gives them