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Feeding Your Beagle

Giving your dog any old dog food isn't enough. Besides a non-sedentary lifestyle, your pet needs dog food that is nutritious in order to be healthy, happy and look great.
The cost of your dog food should not be as important as the nutrients inside the package. The easiest and best way to find out which food is best for your pet is to observe how their response is to the chow they take in.

Here's some things to consider when feeding Fido.

  • Chocolate or candy can make your dog ill and maybe even kill him

    Particularly dark chocolate. Humans pass the principle components of chocolate in 3 hours dogs, however need 18 hours to pass these same ingredients. This can make your pet very sick and can even be fatal. Symptoms of chocolate dog poisoning include vomiting, excessive urination, hyperactivity, diarrhea, followed by seizure, coma, and death.

  • Read over the label.

    Dogs benefit from dog food which contain high vegetable protein levels since these are easy to digest and are a great source of energy. A diet rich in protein from meat is perfect for dogs. When purchasing canned foods, look for turkey meat, pork, chicken or other meat by products since these keep your dogss coat smooth and shiny.

  • Be conservative with meat bones

    In a good amount of cases it might not be in your pets best interest to feed your dog bones. Your dog can choke on small bones. Remember, dogs have small digestive tracts. They also lack saliva amylase, an enzyme that can pre-digest starch.

  • Dog food supplements are unnecessary…

    ...if you are sure your pet gets a diet that is nutritionally complete. Dog food generally gets it's carbohydrates from include wheat, rice, corn, oatmeal. However, a highly specialized nutrition is only necessary when dogs do not get enough physical activity or are are in a stressful situation.

  • Avoid raw fish and eggs.

    Eating too many raw eggs cause skin problems in dogs. In dog terms - since eggs dwindle the biotin available in their body - dermatitis plus hair falling out are its expected effects. Raw fish meanwhile causes thiamine-deficiency in dogs. Its effects usually are weakness and loss of appetite and in rare cases death.

    A healthy diet will result in a healthy dog with a shiny coat and bright eyes


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