In order to avoid being picky, we should train the dog to form a stable eating habit. Four times a day three months ago, three times a day for three months, and two times a day for more than eight months. If you don't want your dog to be interested in food, you should let it eat feed for dinner since childhood. During the meal, let the dog form the habit of paying attention to the meal. If it is not used up within 30 minutes, the feed will be put away and provided again at the next dinner. Don't let the dog get into the bad habit of eating as much as you want.
How to feed pet snacks?
1. Do not feed food with excessive pigment or additives.
2. Don't let the dog get into the habit of having snacks every day.
3. The best time to give snacks is when they do something you're happy with.
4. When the dog's body begins to look a little bit out of shape, we should pay attention to whether the snacks should be reduced.
5. When the dog does not eat, do not replace the meal with snacks.
In order to avoid the problem of picky eating, dogs should be trained to form a stable eating habit since childhood.
1. How to deal with doggie anorexia
1. Fasting method
If the dog is hungry or not, starve your dog first and let it stop eating for 24 hours. Stop eating period to enough water (can add a small amount of sugar in the water), generally the next day can restore appetite. In order to ensure its exuberant appetite, can stop eating one day a week.
2. Meal time control method
If you don't want your pet to only be interested in delicious food, you should let the pet take feed as the only staple food when you are young. When eating, let the dog form the habit of paying attention to the meal. If you don't finish eating within 30 minutes, put away the feed and wait until the next dinner time. Don't let the dog grow up to eat and don't want to eat, and there will be something to eat later Bad habits.
In addition, the frequency of meals suggested: a small number of dogs within three months, four meals a day for dogs of three to eight months, and two meals a day for dogs over eight months.
3. Exercise method
Strengthen physical exercise, increase the amount of exercise dog, exercise consumes a lot of energy, the dog will feel very hungry, appetite will come naturally. Generally, the small toy dogs only need to prepare more toys at home and make them run, jump and play more at ordinary times to meet the amount of exercise.
But large dogs must be more outdoor exercise, especially hounds, whose ancestors were hunting for a living, have been used to strenuous exercise. Let them run at least 5-10 kilometers a day, walking the dog is a good way, running with the dog, not only exercise the dog, but also exercise themselves; the dog's appetite increased, he also got exercise, kill two birds with one stone!
4. Snack control
Many parents like to give the dog snacks, in fact, dogs eat too much snacks is easy to cause picky forehead problem. In particular, small dogs, but also pay special attention to, give it snacks as love! Are snacks necessary? Doctors have different opinions.
Some doctors think that if the dog's nutrition is enough, they don't need to buy extra snacks for the dog. Some doctors think that proper snacks can help build the relationship between the owner and the dog.
According to the advice of professional doctors, parents should pay attention to several principles in choosing dog snacks
(1) Pay attention to the ingredients and appearance of snacks, whether there are excessive pigments or additives, and whether the appearance is too bright and unnatural.
(2) It is better not to let the dog develop the habit of eating snacks every day.
(3) The best time to give snacks is when they do something you're happy with. Let them know that you can reward them for doing something, and let them know that you are the one who can decide whether or not to reward them with snacks.
(4) Excessive snacks can definitely cause dog obesity. When dogs and cats begin to lose shape, we should pay attention to whether snacks should be reduced.
(5) Don't give him snacks when he's not eating.
5. Changing dog food
Generally speaking, it is not recommended that you give your dog a single brand of dog food for a long time. Even if the dog loves to eat a certain brand of dog food before, you should change your taste occasionally.
As a saying goes, even if you eat "mountain seafood" every day, you will get tired of it. Moreover, the nutritional components of a kind of dog food are not comprehensive. Changing a kind of dog food will help to improve this situation. When changing the dog food, you can't change it suddenly. It's easy for the dog to be anorexic. Change it step by step, for example, once every other day. It's not too late for the dog to get used to the new dog food after a week.
6. Food diversity
Parents can use food to stimulate the dog's taste to cause appetite. No matter what causes the loss of appetite, they should try to find ways to constantly change the type of food to avoid single food.
The best way to prevent the dog from anorexia is to avoid feeding the dog a single food for a long time. In addition to eating dog food, you can also occasionally give some meat, boiled eggs, a small amount of vegetables, a small amount of sweet milk powder, etc.
7. Avoid food mixed with medicine during illness
In addition, when the dog is sick, try not to mix the drug in the food, but try to give it by intramuscular injection or intravenous drip, so as to avoid the dog's reaction to the drug and anorexia.
8. Trace element supplement method
If the above methods are not effective, owners should consider whether the dog is lack of trace elements. It can't be ruled out that some dogs have the bad problem of picky eating because of the lack of some trace elements in their bodies. Generally speaking, the most typical symptom of dogs with zinc deficiency is anorexia, and their appetite is obviously decreased. Zinc plays a role in regulating taste. After zinc deficiency, taste sensitivity decreases, and the metabolism speed of oral mucosa shortens, which greatly affects their appetite.
If this is the case, timely supplement trace elements, improve gastrointestinal function, improve appetite, fundamentally solve the problem of doggie anorexia!
2. What are the main reasons why dogs are picky and anorexic?
1. Physiological anorexia
Generally appear in the dog tooth change, estrus, pregnancy, labor before these periods, generally in addition to anorexia will not appear other symptoms, spirit, temperature, breathing, urine and urine will be very normal. In case of anorexia during the tooth changing period, the owners can feed the dog more semi liquid food, drink more pet goat milk powder for the dog, and buy some cat milk powder for the pet puppies, which can help the dog's tooth development and pass the tooth changing period as soon as possible. Oestrus: as a result of hormone secretion increase, will cause the dog's appetite to drop, and appear a restless signs.
This kind of anorexia phenomenon is better to solve, only pay attention to the hygiene situation and give adequate drinking water in the normal diet after estrus. If you have anorexia before pregnancy and parturition, you can feed more easily digestible food, give your dog more nutrition, and buy some calcium powder to eat.
2. Anorexia due to parasitic diseases
Dogs infected with parasites are generally ascariasis, the other is Fasciola hepatica. These two diseases will appear anorexia in another dog at one stage, but Fasciola hepatica often will soon become hypersensitive and ascites and other phenomena. And ascariasis, in addition to anorexia, there will be chronic emaciation. Of course, there are other parasitic diseases, which will not be listed here.
3. Anorexia with endocrine disorders
The situation of replanting is more complicated, and anorexia is only one of them. Often accompanied by a large area of hair loss, pigmentation, nervousness, mental disorders and other symptoms.
4. Anorexia of other diseases
When dogs suffer from other diseases, such as warm dog fever, parvovirus, viral enteritis, cold, intestinal dysfunction (intussusception, pinching, enteritis, peritonitis, etc.) and other diseases, anorexia occurs.
5. Anorexia normalis
Sometimes the dog is not in a high mood, or for a certain food has been tired of its taste and other conditions will appear anorexia. Normal anorexia in addition to the food mood is not high, will not appear other symptoms, spirit, temperature, breathing, urine and urine will be very normal.
6. Overeating dyspepsia anorexia
If the dog is due to overeating, gluttonous chewing, indigestion and anorexia, then the owner can give the dog some medicine to help digestion. Such as multi enzyme tablets, stomach enzymes, Qingda and other oral drugs, it is best to buy pet specific drugs, the effect is better, and let the dog fast for 24-36 hours.
