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1. Vacation with your dog

2. Dogfood

I. How you feed your puppy

II. The Growing up dog

III. The adult dog

IV. The aging dog

V. Pregnant/nursing dog

VI. Auxiliary food

Generally: The dog can eat everything, what we eat, only without spices. Restriction: bulb, avocado, chocolate and other food, which contents for example Theobromin. 5-6 bars of full milk chocolate are deadly for an attained full growth RR!!
A veterinary surgeon said times to me, dry food  is " (as if one is feeding it continuously) like a fast food restaurant ". Evenly the modern kind is to feed well known dry food. If one applies the time and patience, it should be better to cook:). I am feeding in the morning dry food (Robur), coming from Sweden. The proteinsource consists partielly of fresh chicken meat. In the evening: I am cooking. I think: it is better to feed your dog twice a day because of the risk of a turning stomache!

I.Puppy

The puppy food increasing puppies begins with its birth and the admission of the kolostralmilk (the first milk which comes after birth). Looking for and finding the nippels take place usually independently and still during the expiration of birth. Separating of puppies, who are already born, from the nut/mother to the completion of the birth is not correct. As 3 weeks as possible should be nourished the puppies as completely as possible with mother's milk.

Then you have to feed the puppies + mothers milk dependend on the function of the milk production of the dog.

Later between the 18.-21.day after birth: you begin to feed supplementing to the nut-milk milk oats or ricemash. With increasing age (starting from 25.day) the milk is partly replaced to cooked and cut up fish, chopped to mash, cooked egg, by beef-tea and by raw meat, or by sieved finished feeds, protein-yielding, contentful and more firmly arranged the auxiliary fodder = mash phase now should be used more and more feeds, which will be also a component of the puppy fodder, and/or the food for adults of dogs. Jumped over with late supplementing food (starting from the 25.day) the number of the supplementing food depends on the milk production of the dog. Slow quantity and frequency are to be increased, up to the end of the 4.week after birth: 4-5 times daily short before setting the puppies (6-7 off life week) must cover supplementing food the entire energy -, nutrient -, mineral material and vitamin requires of the puppies, which amount to the double preservation need of grown up dogs. Feeding set off puppies must consider doubled energy -, nutrient -, mineral material and vitamin requires. With increasing age the protein and fat need increase off and the coal hydrate need, while the mineral material and vitaminrequires remain invariably high. For the avoidance of nourish-conditioned bone growth disturbances is on the standard protein - to respect mineral material and vitamine supplements. Those generally nourishing errors are excessive meat and vitamine supplements (especially Calcium) .

II. The growing up dog

The young dog at the age of 7-9 weeks is normally completely set off. Dogs grow fastest in the first 6 months, large dog races are attained full growth in the age of approx. 10-16 months, smaller races with approx. 6-12 months. Up to this time the dogs increased their birth weight 50 x. Thus is an enormous growth and development phase in a relatively short period . There are no proofs for the fact that growing up dogs nutrients need, which are needed not also by adult animals. In addition no proof is present that different dog races need different nutrient during growth.

Energy: The nutrient and power requirement are about twice as high, like the one attained full growth dog with the same body size. After that 6. life month sinks this need parallel with the reducing growth rate of the animal. Protein need: this lies more highly than with attained full growth animals. Since the young animals take up larger energy and concomitantly fodder quantities than attained full growth animals, the eaten total protein quantity from nature is higher. Still more importantly it is however that the protein of high quality should be high digestible and. It lies with approx. 22%. A rule of thumb means that the protein content should not be with the young dog in the dry food over 30%. Because otherwise the dogs grow too fast (importantly at very large races) calcium and phosphorus: Against the widespread opinion feeds with very high calcium and phosphorconsist should not be fed to growing up dogs. The fodder of growing up dogs should lie at approx. 1.0% calcium and 0.8% phosphorus. Even the emergence of certain skeleton illnesses can be promoted by feeding excessive calcium quantities at large races dogs and giant dog races during growth. Changes of fodder after assumption of the breeder: should take place only inclusively-calibrating. Most breeders deliver a small package with the used food as well as the puppy. After 2-3 days the new food can be introduced by gradually replaced. A over feeding during growth can lead to predominance, and to an accelerated growth rate.

Fat content: should not lie over 14% in the dry food. Resumee: I recommend to buy a high-quality dryfood, which is if possible manufactured with high-quality sources of protein (fresh meat), which is with a protein content under 30% and exhibits a fat content below 15%. To the Ca:P (1,0:0,8) relationship is to be paid attention thereby. Whereby most dry food keep this relationship. A good advice: make it possible for your dog to grow slowly, by paying attention to it, what you feed. I feed a fodder for the adult dog, which keeps the values approximately with the growing up dog.

III. he adult dog

Depending upon your taste: I recommend either a dry food or cook. There I mean to feed adult dogs twice daily (in the morning and in the evening) , I cook a meal and the other one I receive them a dry food. Long-term a twice feeding is recommended, because the quantities per meal are smaller and so that the risk is reduced for stomach turn according to my opinion. I feed each day at the same time. The meal is somewhat larger in the evening, since the dogs rest there after longer than in the morning after the meal. Recommended dwell phase at least 2 hours, better so approx. 4-5 hours. I feed at present Bozita Robur and am very content thereby due to the appearance of my dogs. Guidance for the cooking: Basis: Meat, egg, quarc, sea-fish (as source of protein) in combination with rolled oats, rice (unpeeled), potato strength, potatoes (coal hydrates)  Luzernegruenmehl, carrots, wheat bran (raw fiber) sunflowers -, od. thistle oil + a small spoon pig fat (only, if it stands the dog) a tip: Procure yourselves with the veterinary surgeon: biotin & omega fatty acids. It is esentiell important and gives the skin gloss. They know also well beeryest supplementing, contains valuable B-vitamines and proteins, and folic acid. Mineral materials + vitamines: by an auxiliary fodder of the zoo trade od. veterinary surgeon

IV. The aging dog

The fodder quantity should be adapted to the nourishing condition of the dog. Often a reduction is necessary around 20-30%. The protein quantity should be as large, as for the normally active dog. The protein quality should be as high as possible (e.g. eggs, meat, milk products) the rations must contain sufficiently ballast materials , for the suggestion of the intestine activity. Calcium supply as with the normally active dog. The salt admission should not be so high (heart -, cycle -, kidney load) during the supply of trace elements is in particular on zinc (raise up to 2mg/kg/day), to respect selenium and iodine. The vitamine supplement can be raised due to the smaller absorption up to the double of the normally active dog (preservation need). Increased biotinsupplement is favorable. You give the daily fodder quantity best in 2-3 fodder rations. Pouring over with warm water facilitates the fodder admission and does not improve the acceptance not too frequently for mixing feeds changes, since this greasing can favour and digesting with the older dog loaded. However the dog reacts to new taste attractions with fodder admission (lack of appetite), increased at short notice, during finished mixing fodder feed (dry food): Product with high raw fiber portion and low fat content prefer, because of predominance. By mixing of 10g cellulose to 100g of a usual compound however fodder can be increased the content of raw fiber of 1,5% to the dry substance on approximately 5% (larger fodder volume, and/or smaller digestibleness causes), and this is likewise with predominance important. That particularly applies to humans, who feed doses, but have for all different and/or a over-weighty, older dog. But generally you can reduce the predominance with each dog by increase of the raw fiber, at expense of the digestibleness, without diminishing the fodder quantity too much. Often older dogs have organ problems: Heart, kidney, liver, metabolism. If diseases manifested themselves, special parliamentary allowance is additionally indicated to absolutely before a veterinary treatment.

protein
18-22% (it must be a good quality of protein)
calcium
0,6-1%
phosphorus
0,4-0,8%
zinc
100-200mg/kg Trockenfutter
vitamine E
100-200mg/kg Trockenfutter
raw fiber
5-15%
fat
if you have an overweighty dog < 5%

Own mixtures for the aging dog basis: Meat, egg, quarc, sea-fish (as source of protein) in combination with rolled oats, rice (unpeeled), potato strength, potatoes (coal hydrates)  luzernegreenflower, carrots, wheat bran (raw fiber) sunflowers -, od. thistle oil + a small spoon pig-fat (only, if it stands the dog) a tip: Procure yourselves with the veterinary surgeon: biotin & omega fatty acids. It is esentiell important and gives the skin gloss. Mineral materials + vitamines: by an auxiliary fodder of the zoo trade od. veterinary surgeon

V. The pregnant/nursing dog

Feeding the pregnant and nursing dog must exceed the normal requirement substantially, if birth and raising are to run complicationless. While a small growth of the preservation fodder can positively affect around approx. 10% in the process of the oestrus the number of the delivered eggs, in the first 14 days of the pregnancy the dog needs normal food . In 3. to 6. pregnancy is increased the preservation need by the 1,5 subject and reduced then up to the birth with consideration of the supposed and race-usual throw size, the temper of the dog and its additional load gradually again to the initial value. The daily needed fodder quantity is distributed with increasing pregnancy on 3-5 meals. During the lactation the need of energy rises -, mineral materials as well as vitamines as a function of the lactation up to 4 subject of the preservation need. protein, fat, mineral materials and vitamines are delivered in substantial quantity with the milk and must be supplied by way of the food again. Because of the large fodder quantity several meals are possibly also at night necessary. Synchronously with the admission of auxiliary fodder by the puppies, the fodder and energy quantity for the dog should accordingly to be reduced, so that when setting off the preservation need is again reached.

VI. Auxiliary food

My three Rhodesian Ridgebackladies get dried pig ears since they are youth. (thus since I it have) relatively regularly (maximally 1 per dog per day). Sometimes they get and degreased pig feet also dried and from time to time times a cookie. They take also gladly times occasionally a chewing bone. You can also offer a chewing bone or pig ear to your puppy. I do not feed bones at all, because of the danger of the blockage and the complete intestine catch. From time to time my ladies get some cartilage piece of beef.