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- Taking Your Dog's Temperature
- Feeding Your Adult Dog
- Essential Grooming Supplies
- Flea Products
- FrontLinePlus
- Enervite Vitamin Supplement
- FleaControl
- Bathing Your Puppy
- Bag Balm
- Bil-Jac Dog Food
- Denosyl For Dogs
- Pet Bathing 101
- Ear Cleaning
- Worms
- Why dental care?
- Bufo Toads
- Flea and Tick Products
- Lyme Disease
- Glucosamine, Chondroitin & Joint Care.
- Eye Care
- Crate Training
- Car Safety
- Preventing Car Sickness
Feeding Your Adult Dog
Good nutrition and a balanced diet are essential elements for good health in a dog. And that means watching your canine’s caloric intake carefully. Your dog needs plenty of fresh water and should be fed good quality food in amounts just right to meet his energy requirements. Inadequate or excess intake of nutrients can be equally harmful.Good nutrition and a balanced diet are essential elements for good health in a dog. And that means watching your canine’s caloric intake carefully. Your dog needs plenty of fresh water and should be fed good quality food in amounts just right to meet his energy requirements. Inadequate or excess intake of nutrients can be equally harmful.
Most dry dog foods are soybean, corn or rice based. Some of the better brands have meat or fish meal as the first listed ingredient. These are typically higher priced. However, normally dogs eat less of these types of higher quality foods. Larger dogs, typically those over 30 pounds should be fed dry or semi-moist food.
The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) is an organization that publishes regulations for nutritional adequacy of "complete and balanced" dog and cat foods. Your pet’s food should conform to minimal AAFCO standards. Diets that fulfill the AAFCO regulations will state on the label: "formulated to meet the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile for…(a given life stage).
Recommendations
- We recommend the food you choose to serve your dog does conform to the AAFCO standards. You can determine this by the manufacturer's label on the dog food, it should indicate that it is formulated to meet AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile...
- In regards to food type this of course is an individual decision however it is recommended that dog over 30lbs be fed a dry or semi-moist diet of food.
- Plenty of fresh water
There are a number of prominent manufacturers of high quality dog foods, including Iams® (Eukanuba®), Hill’s® (Science Diets®), Nature’s Recipe® products, Nutra Max®, Purina® and Waltham®, among others. Follow the label recommendations, but use your own judgment in determining how much to feed.