Be Responsible For Your Dog’s Well-being

By Jon Dunkerley

Keeping Your Dog Healthy is Your Own Responsibility
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When feeding your dog, you must keep in mind certain key factors:

- The size of your dog

- The daily activity level of your dog

- The life stage of your dog

- Any health conditions that your dog may have.

By ignoring one or all of these above factors, you can be setting your dog up for a major crash that you could surely avoid by being smart and attentive to your dogs needs.

The size of your dog will contribute greatly to the amount of food that you should feed him. For proper feeding regulations the bag will list approximate amounts, however if you are an experienced dog owner you will find that these recommended portions are not always appropriate for your specific dog. The label on the bag is just a guide, a little more, or a little less will not hurt based on your opinion.

Every dog has individual needs. Certain breeds of dog have specific nutritional requirements that must be met in their diet for them to live an optimum lifestyle. Knowing this, dog food manufacturers have started to produce breed specific dog foods. Royal Canin is the leader in this regard and have a great line of breed specific dog and cat food products on the market.

High energy dogs, need a high energy food. Calorie rich food will benefit a dog that is high active, for example a working dog, needs a high calorie diet, due to their active days assisting their masters to perform daily tasks.

Choosing a dog food according to your dog’s stage of life is very important. Your dog’s nutritional needs will very depending on his stage of life. Puppies need a high protein high calorie diet. Adults need a balanced blend of all of the necessary elements, and senior dogs have specific food products with extra aditives to take care of their special needs some of which being but not limited to joint maintinence, immune boosters, and ostio strengthening.

via dogflu.ca

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