German Shepherd Skeleton
german shepherd skeleton
Does anyone have any puppy food recipes?
Hi i wanna make my own dog food for my 13 week old German Shepherd Female puppy. She always is a picky eater and i heard people say dogs hardly refuse when u make your own dog food. Plus the recipes you guys can give me will they give a puppy nutrients to grow up strong and nice with a shiny coat. Also i need her to gain weight cause she came back from the vet like a walking skeleton. I could literally teach a science class with the amount of bones i saw. She suffered from Jaundice and her brother died so she luckily survived. Anyways she has put on some weight that you dont see the bones as much but she could do to get heavier. So will this food get her weight gain goal on track.
Thanks guys and gals.
Go to http://www.carinrennings.com and click on resources.. she is the vet I worked for and has a great page on home feeding….
*****Puppy Rice and Meat Dinner
Ingredients:
1 cup meat — *see Note
4 cups rice
1 cup vegetables — *see Note
1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 cloves garlic
Preparation & Cooking
Boil all ingredients together in a large pot. Be sure that pork is cooked all the way through. Cool food off and serve.
Note: choose one: hamburger, ground pork (cook all the way through), ground chicken, ground turkey, or liver
Note: choose one or more of these: sweet potato, regular potato, green beans, carrots, spinach
For Variety: Noodles and Meat
Same ingredients as Rice and Meat Dinner, except for this: Boil 1 pound noodles separately. Mix noodles in with meat and vegetable mixture when ready to serve. Italian and Chinese noodles will both work.
Try to substitute mackerel (a fish) for meat in some meals. I usually buy the canned stuff which has little bones in it. They can eat these bones. A little of the canned stuff goes a long way, though – it has a lot of salt!
*****Puppy Meat Loaf
This excellent recipe was developed by Pat Peterson (Mrs. Chell Peterson), a breeder of German Shepherd dogs in Minnesota. It’s delicious, nutritious, and easy to make too. Be sure to check with your veterinarian before you change your pet’s diet. Show her this recipe and only use it as a treat or supplement to the AAFCO approved food you purchase.
If your pet is allergic to wheat, leave out the bread and wheat germ. Increase the oatmeal amount to 12 cups and add oat bran. This recipe would also work well with ground turkey or chicken.
INGREDIENTS:
1 pound ground beef
1 (24-ounce) container cottage cheese
4 eggs
1/2 cup dry milk powder
1/4 cup wheat germ
8 slices oatmeal bread, crumbled
8 cups cooked oatmeal
4 cups cooked brown rice
PREPARATION:
In very large mixing bowl, combine ground beef and cottage cheese; blend well. Add eggs, milk powder, and wheat germ and mix. Then add the crumbled bread, oatmeal, and brown rice and mix well.
Divide among ten small (5-1/2″ x 3-1/2″) aluminum loaf pans.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour. Cool at room temperature for 1 hour, then promptly refrigerate. This food is perishable, so don’t store it in the fridge longer than three days.
We always froze all but one of the loaves. To defrost, let them stand in the refrigerator overnight. Crumble the meatloaf into a bowl, drizzle with some water, and microwave for 20-30 seconds until warm. Make sure the food doesn’t have hot spots after microwaving, as your pet will gobble this up!
Make sure to discard any food that has been sitting out for 30 minutes or longer.
here are some more sites:
http://vetmedicine.about.com/cs/nutritionrecipe/
http://www.recipezaar.com/59643
Growth and Development of Puppies and Kittens
As a new puppy owner you are naturally anxious to make sure the new arrival receives the right amount of nutrients in their diet for healthy growth and development.
When should you feed him ?
What’s In the food?
The purpose of your puppy’s diet is to provide him with all the nutrients he needs to grow and remain active. All food contains a mix of protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals and vitamins, each of which plays a vital role in nutrition and must be supplied in the correct amounts by the puppy’s diet.
Protein is important for growth and to repair damaged tissue, especially muscle. This is why it is needed in higher amounts in the diets of growing pups and very active adult dogs.
Carbohydrates and fats are the body’s main energy source. Fats provide more energy than carbohydrates and are essential in small amounts for a healthy skin and coat.
Minerals and vitamins are important in the diet in small amounts. Puppies and nursing bitches especially require an adequate supply of calcium and phosphorus in their diet. It is possible, however to get ‘too much of a good thing’ and it is dangerous to over supplement an already balanced diet.
As your pup grows into adulthood, his requirements for each of these nutrients will change, and it will be your responsibility to ensure that he is receiving the correct diet for each stage of his life.
Of course, proper nutrition starts before the puppy was born!
A puppy born to parents fed on good quality food, especially when the bitch is pregnant, is much more likely to have a strong constitution, and we can expect the puppy to be healthier, more resistant to disease and have a long life.
Similarly, a bitch living as part of a family in an emotionally satisfying environment can be expected to produce puppies which are more stable and well-adjusted than a one living in a caged and restricted environment.
A puppy’s initial nourishment is linked to the mother. Any deficiencies in her diet over a prolonged period will be passed to her litter. The most important stage of pregnancy is the last third, from six weeks onwards. This is when over 75% of the puppy’s weight is developed.
This is also the period when there is an efficient flow of nutrients from the mother to the puppies, which will be so beneficial during the first few weeks after birth.
At this stage the mother may be fed a higher energy food as her stomach capacity will be reduced.
Feeding the puppies places a demand on the mother to eat, digest and absorb very large amounts of food/nutrients. This then enables her to produce sufficient milk to support the growth and development of a number of puppies.
With all breeds it is important that weaning (changing the puppy’s diet from mothers milk to dog food.) does not begin until the end of the third week after birth. This process should be done gradually.
At this stage the mother’s milk provides the only nutrition to the puppies. Most of the puppy’s antibodies will have passed from the mother during the final days of the pregnancy. These antibodies will last for the first 8 weeks of life.
Breeders and owners love to see plump, roly-poly puppies because these seem to epitomise good health and proper care. In the same way, fat babies were once admired but this is now frowned on by health professionals.
In practice, more health problems result from over-nutrition than from lack of adequate nutrition. Although severe underfeeding will stunt growth, slight underfeeding will actually reduce health problems in adulthood.
There is undisputed evidence that a high intake of protein and fat during puppy-hood leads to health problems. Behavioural problems especially hyperactivity can often be attributed to the same cause. Skin problems which used to be seen mostly in older dogs now seem to be prevalent in young dogs also.
In spite of this, most proprietary pet foods for growth have very high levels of protein and fat and this is even promoted as a virtue. (The adverts may even say “The first ingredient is meat!”)
Obesity is an easily prevented condition, and now is the time to form the habits which will save your dog from suffering in later life. Some breeds are predisposed to obesity, such as Labradors and the small terrier breeds, neutered animals can also be a little more prone to gain weight. As well as taking your pup for regular exercise, be sure to feed him no more than is required to keep him in peak condition with his ribs easily felt, but not showing.
The key to having a healthy puppy is to feed enough of a natural and easily digestible diet to ensure a slow rate of growth rather than for the puppy to shoot up. A puppy which grows slowly will still realise its growth potential but may take a little longer to reach full size.
The needs of puppies vary tremendously so recommended feeding amounts should be treated with suspicion. Good judgement and experience are better guides.
Although many health problems and weaknesses have a hereditary basis correct diet can minimise the effect of these inherited weaknesses. Weakness of the digestive system, as in the German Shepherd or a tendency to develop eczema as in the West Highland Terrier can be avoided by a correct diet. Hip dysplasia has been shown to be aggravated by incorrect diet during growth and it is likely that other developmental disorders of the skeleton are diet-related.
With Giant breeds the difference between appetite and requirement is vast and therefore there is more chance of these breeds becoming obese. This can be accentuated by owners wrongly believing that it is desirable that a puppy should grow rapidly and then feeding more than is required. Excessive growth at this stage may also lead to bone abnormalities.
Exercise is important, and in itself promotes health.
Some health care professionals advocate that puppies should not be exercised as this will damage the developing bones and joints. This makes as little sense as recommending that children should not have exercise until adulthood.
Exercise promotes good muscle tone, and well-developed bones and joints as well as providing social interaction. As mentioned above, developmental defects of the skeleton are caused, not by exercise but by poor diet.
Some problems of the growing dog
Although many health problems/weaknesses have a hereditary basis correct diet can minimise the effect of these inherited weaknesses. Weakness of the digestive system, as in the German Shepherd or a tendency to develop eczema as in the West Highland Terrier can be avoided by a correct diet. Hip dysplasia has been shown to be aggravated by incorrect diet during growth and it is likely that other developmental disorders of the skeleton are diet-related.
Developmental problems are less significant in the cat because of the proportionally smaller size.
About the Author
John Burns is a qualified veterinarian
who for the past fourteen years has also been producing a natural, holistic and
complete food for dogs and cats, Burns Real Food – free of artificial colours,
flavourings and preservatives.
As a practising Veterinary Surgeon, John became increasingly concerned about the
quality of pet foods on the market, and how nutrition was playing a part in the
poor health of the pets that he was seeing in his surgery.
Burns Pet Nutrition are known for being an ethical company with excellent customer
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