How and how to feed a toy poodle?

Each owner of a toy poodle - this cute, like a toy dog, will certainly think about how to properly feed his pet. A well-composed diet allows the animal to be active and strong.

• Feed on schedule and in a specific place. A puppy under the age of 3 months should be fed 5-6 times a day. If the poodle already has 3 months, the food is reduced to 4 times a day. For a pet that is 6-12 months old, it is enough to fill the bowl three times a day.
• The food bowl should be comfortable at chest level.
• To train a dog not to ask for food from the table.
• If the dog in the apartment is not alone, each animal should select an individual plate.
• After eating, it is recommended to thoroughly wash and clean the bowl.
• Provide free access to clean water.
• Make sure that the owner’s dinner and breakfast do not coincide with the time of feeding the poodle.
• Do not mix dairy food with meat.

If the owner has stopped on natural nutrition, he needs certain knowledge to prepare such food and a lot of patience, since it is impossible to predict the reaction of the dog to food.

First of all, you need to find out what products the animal is allowed to give.

• Meat. Without fail, cut into slices or passed through a meat grinder. For daily nutrition take turkey, beef, chicken, liver. Babies can begin to feed meat from 2–2.5 weeks.
• Eggs. The allowable amount is two per week. Exceeding this norm entails the occurrence of allergies.
• Kefir, milk, cottage cheese or yogurt homemade. Milk is allowed to be given in raw form in an amount of 0.1-1 l per day. In addition, calcined cottage cheese is of great benefit.To prepare it, take half a liter of milk, bring to a boil and put 1 tablespoon of calcium chloride in it. After waiting until the milk is curdled, they discard the resulting mass on cheesecloth.
• Cereal liquid porridge: buckwheat, rice, millet, oat. The water in which it is boiled does not need to be salted. Suitable for feeding not only adult dogs, but also puppies.
• Fish. It is allowed to give it no more than three times a week. Frozen sea fish are fed untreated. As for river fish, it is advisable to cook it. Fillet must certainly be freed from the insides, scales and bones.
• Fruits, berries and vegetables. The choice here is wide: tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, beets, zucchini, apples, carrots, strawberries, radishes. They are usually rubbed on a grater or planed in small cubes. You can make a salad seasoned with fish oil or sour cream. It’s possible in another way: add raw vegetables or non-heat-treated fruits to the finished porridge. Another option is to cook them together with grits.
• If the dog does not give up greens (dandelion leaves, nettle, spinach, dill, parsley and other greens from the garden), it can be added to a bowl of ready-made food or fed separately.

It is useful to introduce seaweed and flaxseeds, crushed in a coffee grinder, into the diet. With a deficiency of mineral elements in the body of the pet, yeast, coal, bone meal are used, which give the poodle a couple of teaspoons every day.

To maintain a healthy and healthy life of a dog per 1 kilogram of weight per day, you must:

• proteins - 4–5 g;
• mineral salts - 8–10 g;
• carbohydrates - 12-15 gr;
• vitamins: PP - 10 mg, A - 1–5 mg, C – 10 mg, B –– 2–3, 5 mg;
• fats - 1-2 gr.

Recommended dog diet for a day:

• groats - 200 gr;
• fruits, vegetables - 150 gr;
• meat - 200 gr;
• dairy products and milk - 100 gr.

Using dry food makes it easy to care for a toy poodle. You can teach puppies to him from 1-3 months of life.

Granules already provide the optimal amount of dried vegetables, meat, mineral, vitamin and flavoring elements.

There are several types of dry product: economy, medium, premium, super premium and holistic.

While the poodle is small, it is recommended to treat it with a super-premium class. Such a feed already contains minerals and vitamins that help the proper construction and growth of the body of a young dog. If the pet suffers from allergies, it is possible to purchase a hypoallergenic option.

When the animal has reached the age of 2–6 years and has no health problems, he can be given medium-sized food. However, it is mandatory to additionally add a complex of minerals and vitamins to the diet.

If the dog is old or old, it is advised to buy food from the holistic or superpremium line. If the poodle's teeth began to fall out, dry food should be changed to semi-moist.

But the veterinarians reject the food of the economic line, since they are generally made from the waste of meat products and legumes, and therefore do not bring any benefits. On the contrary, such a food can harm because of the salts contained in its composition, enhancing the taste of the ingredients, and dyes.

Veterinarians cannot unambiguously recognize the benefits of this type of animal care. Such nutrition is expressed in the combination of dry food with cottage cheese, vegetables, meat. Porridge, as a rule, is not mixed with an industrial dry product. Many believe that the addition in the form of kefir or yogurt tones the internal environment of the intestine. It is forbidden to change food within one day, that is, to feed porridge for breakfast, and dry food for dinner. This negatively affects the work of the gallbladder and pancreas.

A caring host will try to avoid feeding the dog foods that may cause digestive problems. This may include:

• sweets;
• peas;
• biscuits;
• chocolate;
• mutton;
• smoked meats, pickles, pickled food;
• fat meat;
• sausages;
• bones (fish, bird, beef);
• beans;
• very thick cereals;
• sausage;
• salt;
• spice;
• caramel;
• spoiled products (sour, rotten);
• eggshell;
• bow;
• nuts
• beer;
• Garnet;
• canned fish;
• honey;
• grapes, raisins;
• plums
• apricots
• fresh bread, pasta;
• pork;
• soybeans.

Sweeteners, especially xylitol, are very dangerous for poodles. Honey, despite its benefits, can cause allergies. Feeding sweets entails metabolic disorders, obesity and otitis media. Tubular bones can injure the animal’s stomach.

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