Obesity

There is not only at Christmas, not only threatens people. Overeating, together with the lack of movement in this time of year, when the dog out, the sign on postavach us all.

It can for her man

Dogs in wildlife can regulate the volume of food they receive. Today, people and dogs tend to make better and better feed and move less than their ancestors. And just as in humans there is a risk that the dog will become obeznim.

Obesity dog pie almost always the owner. Administration of nutritious food than necessary, an amount greater than the dog needs, always feeding the dog simple use of residues from the table, the absence of any order in feeding the dog and incoordination whole family in this direction. If the addition gives dog delicacies for which the dog refuses to normal feeding, starting with the dog not eating according to your needs, but according to taste. And if a dog is not in proportion to the quantity and quality of food received enough movement,it is understandable that begins flesh.

Tloustnuti may be due to the hormonal changes in females, older dogs and neuters. Metabolism slows down with age and the animal needs a different type of food. Some manufacturers offer a special feed for older dogs and the breeder should their dog in time to begin to bring. It is always better to prevent problems!

If you notice yourself keeper that he nutrition a dog somehow dislocated from the hand, usually it's more or less tactfully indicate sensitive surroundings. Most of the owners but the problem starts when you notify a veterinarian if you can threaten the health risks associated with obesity.

The first suspect

According to unofficial statistics suffer from around 25 to 40 percent of overweight dogs with us.Are not always standard table showing the estimated weight of a particular breed. Moreover, the standards of individual breeds show sometimes i nekolikakilogramova allowed weight range - of course not the dwarf breeds.

Decide whether or not obese dog may be relatively easy. Laying the palms of both parties at his ribcage across the elbows palpation can determine how clearly the dog act ribs. Too apparent rib may mean that the dog is too skinny. The ideal situation is when the ribs can be felt well and in view of the dog easily induce belly. However, if the light caress the dog on the side ribs are hmatna, not noticeable and not the profile of the belly is full, the farmer must admit that his dog is obese.To what extent is found for the overweight dog burdensome or threatening, consult veterinarian.

In addition to these, at first sight, visible manifestations of the other symptoms of obesity should be quick easy fatigue during exercise and poor tolerance or heat and physical exertion.

Why give a dog pounds in addition to?

Obesity mind dogs as well as people of course. Excessive burden on their joints, leading to excessive wear, also suffer circulatory system, reducing the mobility of the dog and fenkam makes big problems in the acceptance, during pregnancy and childbirth. Overweight increases the risk of many diseases, including inflammatory and degenerative conditions, heart problems or metabolic disorders such as diabetes. Dog suffering from overweight can not fully use the joy of life,poorly tolerates heat and active fun it is trouble.

Since each owner broadly responsible for your dog, must also ensure that the compulsory vaccination of its health. Reducing the weight obezniho dog makes an important step for the overall status and condition.

Decision humans is one thing and implementation second. Breeder, a dog who has dopraval feeding wounds and fully, they must be mentally armor to resist the dog vycitavym views weaker characters and other family members. Cooperation across the human pack is the first step to reducing overweight.

First Aid for obesity

There are only two ways to lose weight: Reduce intake of calories, such as less food and increase energy consumption, such as movement and exercise.

In the first place, it is necessary obeznim dogs to reduce the total amount of food, skip to limit intake of carbohydrates and fats. In a specialized shop or veterinary advice to farmers, which in a series of complete feed in our market will be to reduce the weight for a particular dog. When the dosage of feed is necessary to adhere to the recommended rations, which are placed on the packaging. No matter when the only weight but also the male age group-eg. petikilovy biannual dog will be fed differently than petikilove puppy. The principle of such a special diets is that the benefits may not reduce the current feed of the recommended twenty to thirty percent, but the dog is filled with (almost) regular dose of low-caloric diet, but at the same time limiting the intake of nutrients.Wounds such supplements are of course welcome to the dog part of the menu, but the diet regime should remain the only truly complement or reward, and certainly should not form a regular or a large part of the daily dose dog.

In weighing the truth

You can not rely only on the weight estimate chovateluv dog, the animal should be considered (or have considered). The procedure for weighing small and medium-sized breeds, is such that the keeper first and then weigh yourself without the weight down, take the dog in arms. The difference between the two data is obtained by weighting the dog. Large breeds, which is not enough on the physical possibility of breeders or personal scales are weighed for a veterinarian, where the Czech Railways on the decimalkach.Similar measurements, however, are rather indicative and certainly does not show small farmer dietary progress.

Classic mechanical spring scales have a range accuracy of + - 500 to 1000 grams, which for accurate monitoring of weight is not any benefit. Current digital scales that are slightly better, but also they may be allowed tolerance significantly misleading. Scales for accurate measurement of complying with minimum tolerances are already pricing in a special class in which the price starts about 150 thousand crowns.

A dog should be always weigh at the same hour daily, at the same time, from feeding and venceni.

The first step to reduce weight is to reduce calorie intake by about 25% against the so-called conservation dose for a period of approximately two weeks.After another two to three weeks, the weight of the dog is regularly checked more easily and gradually reduced the volume of food served, in order to achieve weight loss of around 1% per week. This means that if the dog weighed 10 kg, had his weekly weight loss of more than 10 dekagramu.

Practical advice

If the dog was not yet accustomed to feeding once a day or even the food available on a permanent basis, it is necessary to divide the daily ration into several small portions (less than two per day) and, if nesnedl all at once, after the thirty minutes the rest of the food taken.

Lose weight is a difficult task for everyone. The key issue is the need to change customs and habits not only in animal but also farmers.Therefore, each obezniho dog owner should ask the following questions: Who actually fed the family dog, when and what? What dog is rewarded and what wounds? The whole family understand that in the interest of the health of the dog, it should be harder to establish a nutritional regime? They are all sufficiently immune to dog begging?

Feed the dog should always be a member of the household. Remuneration should not run the administration calorific bomb, but the form of games or noncaloric delicacies.

Reducing calories overweight fight is just beginning. It is necessary to increase the physical burden of the dog that did not impose an energy obtained in the form of fat pads, but to make it published. Unable to plead to illness, old age or laziness dog. At a time when weight reduction is a dog,and just ten minutes a day walking zazracnych addition - even though some dogs prefer to rest all day, than to go run.

Once a dog reaches ideal weight may be more to keep the maintenance feed, which stabilizes the weight permanently. Dog and will no longer lose weight, but even pribirat result of excessive supply of calories.

The farmer must keep in mind that a dog needs to zhubnuti and to stay healthy, help people. In as far as to follow the recommendations veterinarian and programmed to reduce the weight of the dog to an acceptable degree, this may mean for the dog substantially improve health, improve quality of life and prolong life.

When the dog reaches the desired weight, it's definitely reason to celebrate,but it is not the end of the journey - rather start a new life. As with humans, often occurs yo-yo effect - when the obese animal is returned to the previous feeding, once again takes his former overweight. This means that if the farmer does not have that dog hubnul further, so it will increase the ration. This is a crisis moment, when the owners of dogs should give particular attention to the dog did not start again pribirat. Helping them was the fact that the dogs after zhubnuti again find his lost physical activity and the joy of movement themselves help to maintain the renewed condition.

Liquids

During the reducing diet is doubly important drinking regime dog. In all circumstances must be absolutely constant access to water, but watch out for power in winter, when the dog water bowl is frozen.The dog may start to lick the ice and could stick it to him the language. Some dogs tested to break the ice foot, so that it can easily lead to an accident cutting shards of ice. Therefore, the really cruel frosts can not leave the dog dish full out, but rather to bring the water several times a day.

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