Choose food
Proper nutrition, as is known, is one of the pledges of health. The same is true for pets, so it is important to know what to feed a puppy of a German shepherd .
Eating, cooked by you by hand or by store feeds - that's what you can feed a German shepherd. You decide what to give preference. Shop feeds of higher grades are in no way inferior to home food, they are perfectly balanced and contain all the nutrients necessary for dogs. One of the subtleties is that, once choosing a feed of one brand, go to the feed of another brand will have to gradually. The advantage of store fodder in their convenience and time-saving owner. In addition, for puppies there are separate series of feeds.
Homemade food
If you decide that your hairy friend is worthy of only natural food, you need to make a diet of puppies of the German shepherd. The main ingredient in the dog diet is meat. For puppies aged from 1 to 2 months, it will have to be scraped off with a piece of spoon. Suitable as a cooked and raw product (pre-frozen to get rid of parasites). At the age of 4 months the puppy can offer offal and fish. In the diet, they should appear no more than twice a week in damp (heart, lungs) or boiled (liver, river fish) form.
Daily puppy should be given milk (up to four months old). From dairy products, you also need cottage cheese, Adyghe cheese or brynza.
From the age of two months the puppy will need to give large bones, and finish it when all the milk teeth change (this happens at the age of 5 months).
In addition to meat, the puppy is given porridge from cereals (buckwheat, pyshenka, oatmeal, etc.), black bread and vegetables (tomatoes, raw potatoes). Here is a list of what you can not feed a German Shepherd puppy:
- beans;
- sweets;
- raw pork and lamb (in them can be the causative agent of the plague);
- spices and salt;
- dry cereals.
Love your pet, take care of it, and remember that the proper nutrition of the German Shepherd puppy, and, therefore, his health, is in your hands.