Dog Health Questions & Problems

Dog health Care is important, what you give to them will show their health life performance, and plus is will also immune the dog health problems or disease that spread to your dog sometimes just because your good knowledge about Pet Food.

These articles will guide you some proven skill in selecting your dog food to a healthy life with no other dog health questions and problems issued. For a pup, you should avoid food that mainly made up by water, sugar and salt. Why? Because at this stage your pup does not need that, furthermore just avoid semi-moist food and canned. You must stick with dried food because soften food will course your pup teeth.
To be more specific stick with a dried kibble food that has a meat protein source as one of its first two ingredients.
In kibble food it should at least 28% of protein, this will help your puppy’ body structure much stronger and help the puppy’s teeth.

Puppies’ teeth are notorious for being sharper than adult teeth.   Puppy kibble is designed for these teeth. You will notice that puppy kibble is a little smaller and sometimes harder than adult kibble.  This is for your puppies’ teeth and to help his adult teeth come through.
Puppy’s stomach is really sensitive, even when you switch your pup the food it is used to one day but then some how you just change it to completely different food the next day.
This will wreak havoc on your puppy’s stomach.
So to change your puppy food you must change it slowly like mix the old style food with new style food. The mix process should be 1 week to make your puppy use to eat.

How many times should I feed my puppy a day?
If your puppy in the age of six months it should be at least three times a day. And when it exactly to 6 months, eat decrease to twice a day and after they hit a year just once a day only.
However it still depends on the breed and how active your dog is.
It is not a good idea though to leave your puppies or your dog’s food out all day for them to eat whenever they may feel like it.   This can lead to unwanted behavior down the line and obesity in some dogs.  Since you are feeding three times a day, which means once in the morning, afternoon and night.

This does mean that if you work full time, either yourself or someone you know and trust will have to come to feed your puppy its lunch and make sure they are taking out immediately.   A puppy’s intestinal tract is still
developing and they cannot hold off on doing their business as long as adult dogs can.
Make sure though you stick to a feeding schedule with your puppy.
As always limited the amounts of table scraps you give your pup in fact try not to give him any.  Instead go for the puppy designed treats if you must give him something.   By practicing good nutrition and diet right from the start you are creating an excellent blue print for your dog to follow through his life.