Dog Care Manual

There are so many dog foods on the market these days, dog owners can be forgiven for feeling confused about what is right and best for their pet. It can take some trial and error before you find the best selection for your dog, depending on its own tastes and dietary requirements. Major dog food brands offer a wide variety of different combinations of food to suit different breeds, ages and sizes of dog. So whether you have a puppy, an ageing dog, a St Bernard or a chihuahua, there will be a type of food on the market designed specifically for its requirements.

Vets and dog breeders can also recommend the best type of dog food.

Different types of dog food

There are several basic different types of food for dogs. Dry and canned varieties are known as ‘complete’ foods, which means that they contain all the necessary nutrients such as protein, fat and carbohydrate and are in the correct quantities for a balanced diet. Semi-moist dog food is between dry and canned food in that in contains more water than dry food, but not as much as canned. Another popular type is mixer food, which is designed to have a lower level of protein and fat, as found in meat. This is designed to be mixed with meat in the correct proportions, to give a balanced meal.

Among the many brands available, Purina dog food provides a wide variety of specific foods. Its vet diet range includes food specifically for dogs with food intolerances, which are common in dogs. They also contain ingredients to help improve the health of a dog’s joints if they are suffering from arthritis for example, and those with kidney or skin complaints.

Pro Plan dog food features specially formulated foods for different types of dogs, whether they are athletic, sensitive, older dogs, puppies or large breeds.

The Royal Canin dog food range offers types designed to give the exact nutritional balance for different breeds of dog throughout their life. The vet care range features food for neutered and un-neutered dogs as well as those with sensitivities.

With so many different varieties of dog food available, it is now possible to design a dietary plan to suit any animal based around its size, age, breed and even to minimise the effects of common health conditions.

After adopting a four-legged companion for yourself at home, it is for you to decide what he is going to have as his food because you own him now. If you follow a strict vegetarian diet, do you think a vegetarian dog diet would be sufficient enough for your dog?

If you ponder over, the dogs living in the wild kill smaller animals for their flesh. If it does not get an acceptable fare, it will have grains and vegetables too. But meat is an integral part of a dog’s diet.

If you look inside the mouth of your dog, the tearing and grinding surfaces are present which indicates that it is an omnivorous animal. Biologically they are capable of eating meat and plants too. Making them follow a strict vegetarian dog diet can be tough, but not impossible.

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Being a dog owner, it’s your responsibility that you look after the health of your pet. Today, we find very few of the pet animals to die of an old age. Instead, it can be easily noticed that most of the dogs die because of certain diseases like cancer and lungs infection. It is really shocking!!

The main reason behind, why so many pets are found unhealthy and disease – infected, is the poor source of protein in their diet. If you think that all the pet food manufacturers, prepare their product, keeping your pet’s interest in mind, then believe me, “It is not the case.” In fact you will be really stunned to know that for increasing the protein source of their product, many of the manufacturers even use by-products like intestine, bones together with chemical preservatives and grains, which are generally very difficult to digest.

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