How to avoid the obesity?

The puppy has a great development and express growth, from the weaning to the 8 or 9 months where it arrives at 80% of his development, reaching to the year of life its adult size, this has some variation according to the race, but as a rule, that happens more of the times. The animal, while it is in development stage, is forming bone and muscles, like thus also, the growth of the skin and the internal organs, this process requires of a great cost of nutrients, which, are incorporated to the organism by means of the diet, that indicates the high nutricionales requirements of the puppy in their stage of development.

Once adult, it has arrived at his normal size and the excess of nutrients that are not taken advantage of by the organism will begin to be accumulated in fat form that pronounces itself in which we know like obesity, are races more prone than others like by Ej.: the Collie and more hyperactive others, tend to be thin like the Setter.

If an suitable control of the diet is not made, and yes the dog takes a sedentary life, the risk will run of becoming obese, with the risks that this one causes, like physical disorders such as cardiac problems, from breathing, digestive disorders and at bony level, ligaments, joints, can arrive at degenerative arthritis.

While the activity of our friend diminishes, the food consumption needs to be fit to help to prevent the obesity:

• Try to avoid to give him eaten in the table, ?I peck? of the breakfast, lunch, merienda and it has supper of the owner, it fulfills all the requirements necessary to get fat to our dog. Sometimes, suppressing this custom it is sufficient so that the animal returns to its indicated weight, a trick is to put a container with grains of balanced in our table, and instead of administering sandwiches to him of our food, we give balanced food units him to deceive it, but less possible.
• Approximately reduce the ration to the 60 to 75% of its normal consumption. The amount depends on the corporal conditions of the mascot and the veterinary advice.
• Provide smaller portions of food and with more frequency, it will feed less, but it will satisfacerá the diet of the mascot.
• Avoid rich fat diets.
• It does not provide any other complement unless his Veterinary Doctor recommends it specifically. The moderate exercise for an adult dog must be part of the program of loss of weight. This subject must speak with its professional.

A special program for animals with certain problems of weight, can be suggested by the Veterinary Doctor, otherwise, it maintains the food cronogram to which the dog is customary. It always maintains fresh water in a clean container and to its reach.

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Author: MV Enrique L. Fernandez De Vanna

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