The Healthy Dog Guide

By Pílula Digital

Preventing a problem is always a better alternative than dealing with the consequences, especially when we talk about pet health. As guardians, fortunately, we have more and more options to prevent various health problems. Knowing how to care for them is a big step towards ensuring animal well-being. Therefore, it is always important to remember the best preventive measures for diseases and other complications that affect pets. With all the tips and recommendations contained in this book, the likelihood of your pet growing up healthy will be much greater, as you will learn how to maintain its health and thus your four-legged friend will be even happier and healthier.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Mar 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9781667472157

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Author's note

Read this book carefully and it will shed some light on the proposed topic. Rest assured that — with the knowledge acquired here — you will become an expert in caring for your puppy.

Introduction

Dogs are an integral part of human society on every inhabited continent on Earth. They drive the cattle and protect them; help the police; smell and detect illicit substances; transport sleds; recover game; guide the blind; search for and rescue the lost and injured; comfort the lonely; hearing for the deaf; or simply add sparkling natural reality to the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world.

As we move from an agrarian to an urban culture, dogs are, in many ways, one of our last and most important links to the natural world. We enjoy caring for our gardens and our pets.

This e-book on The Perfect Handbook for Imperfect Dog Owners emphasizes the pet owner to provide good care to their pet and also provides solutions to unresolved problems.

Understanding the ingredients of your dog's food items is a must for dog lovers or owners. Whenever you feed different types of food items to your dog, always read the label and understand the contents about the types of dog foods that are being used in such commercial preparations. You should understand the ingredients when purchasing food for your dog and also know what to look for.

Food items include fresh and dry foods. Fresh dog food that is prepared at home usually consists of ingredients such as freshly cut chicken pieces, as well as cranberry juices, blue-green algae, etc.

If you come across a different type of preservative and your dog shows sudden signs of a food allergy, be suspicious of the undesirable ingredient in the food provided. Likewise, understand the humidity status. If the food is more moist, the dog may also prefer it.

Beet pulp, noodles, soybean oil, wheat bran, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, copper sulfate, iron sulfate, zinc oxide, choline chloride, etc. It is usually the ingredients in the case of vegetarian diet items offered to pets such as dogs.

Raw egg, chicken, beef, mutton, fish, quail etc. are often the preferred ingredients in case of dog diets prepared based on non-vegetarian items. Taurine is one of the essential ingredients for dog nutrition. Likewise, in case dogs are fed frozen fish items, the vitamin called thiamine needs to be supplemented as an ingredient.

Many premium dog food preparations contain essential fatty acids, carbohydrates with adequate fiber content, vitamins such as vitamins A, D, E and B complex.

In addition, minerals such as zinc, which is an essential ingredient for the health of the skin, and calcium, which is an essential ingredient for bone growth and muscle tone. They should be enriched in these food items. However, the cost of these food preparations is comparatively more expensive than food preparations with general ingredients. Although it may be better for your dog's health.

Dogs need different diets at different ages. Yes this is true. For example, a puppy needs milk