Dog Raising Manual: How to feed puppies 1-12 months old?

According to statistics, more than 80% of puppies who have just arrived home have died of severe dehydration caused by diarrhea! This is a fact that is verified. Dog owners may think about whether the infectious diseases caused by catching a cold have taken away the baby's life.

However, catching a cold is just a catalyst for diarrhea. The most fundamental inducing of the disease of death is also the easiest thing dog owners ignore, which is the way you feed your puppies dry dog food!

Often, many dog owners feed their puppy with seemingly very small amounts of dry dog food, and find that they are always not full and look very hungry. Therefore, the dog owner will also think: Let it eat more, and then eat more, I have to go to work and I will not be able to feed it until I come back in the evening. I can't be hungry, so I must eat enough.

Little do you know that this is the first step to make the puppy fatal, because the puppy's gluttony makes it unaware that there is a danger of overfilling. Eating too much dry dog food will cause fatal harm to the puppy!

Veters have found clinically that almost all puppies who come to see diarrhea have been fed dry feed. Dry dog food is equivalent to the properties of compressed biscuits. It expands after encountering water, and its volume is three times that of the dry feed.

Puppies often eat voraciously, and then chew it briefly, so that the food can be completely digested by gastric juice. The digestive glands of puppies have not yet fully developed after they have just been weaned. In addition, the puppies do not have a certain degree of confidence in the satiety level of food, so diarrhea has become one of the most common lethal diseases in the puppies stage. This disease has a lot to do with the incorrect feeding of dog owners.

This issue will answer the issues that should be paid attention to when feeding puppies and dog food.

1. Do you soak dry dog food or not?

Puppies around 45 days to 90 days are recommended to eat soft dog food.

Not only is it easier to digest the simple factor because soaking softly, but also includes that the puppy is starting to grow teeth at this time, so there is no way to eat too hard food.

After soaking the dog food soft, it is convenient for the puppy to eat by licking, so that the puppy will be very happy to eat.

2. How to soak dog food?

Let’s talk about how soft the soak is. Soak the dog food in hot water. After about 5-10 minutes, the dog food will expand and soften due to full water. At this time, if there is still excess water, you can drain it and then give it to the dog to eat.

In addition, if a puppy eats soft dog food, the amount of water it usually drinks will decrease because dog food is rich in water, so the water intake is enough.

Sometimes a more careful father or mother will find that the puppy does not drink water. This is normal. After starting to eat dry dog food, they will start to drink water on their own initiative.

3. How much is appropriate to feed?

The puppies have small stomachs, but have a strong appetite, which shows that they can’t eat enough in every meal! As a qualified shoveler, you should determine the frequency of meals based on their age.

If you feed your dog too much, it will cause them to die, or cause gastrointestinal diseases, such as small, so be sure to eat less and eat more! ! !