Appearance of your pet: beautiful hair, healthy teeth and claws, clear clear eyes, speak not only about the health of the dog, but also that it receives nutrition correctly and balanced.
There are two variants of food for Pekingese : ready-made dry and natural food. You can choose any type of food.
What to feed a puppy of Pekingese?
As soon as a puppy of Pekingese appears in the house, the owners immediately have a question: what to feed a small Pekingese? The breeder should ask how he fed the puppy and continue to feed the baby as well, bringing it home. Switch to a new type of food should be very carefully and gradually.
Taking a month and a half a puppy, you need to feed him six times a day finely chopped raw beef, sour milk products, milk porridges. The food should be a little warm. Cooked chicken meat should be mixed with porridge. Clean water should always stand in a place accessible to the puppy.
At the age of three months the Pekingese puppy is transferred to five-time feeding. Instead of milk porridges, you need to gradually introduce more meat into the diet. However, cottage cheese and raw meat to the puppy are still necessary.
A semi-annual puppy can already be fed four times a day. In the diet it should gradually introduce vegetables and fish. From six to nine months, the puppy can be fed three times already, and after 9 months of age they feed the Pekingese as an adult dog. By this age milk is excluded from the diet of the dog.
What to feed an adult Pekingese?
Pekinese, although considered a decorative dog, is still a predator, so its diet for the third part should consist of fish and raw meat. Once a week Pekingese is useful to give a boiled or raw yolk. The diet of an adult dog should consist of cereals: buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, raw or stewed vegetables. In order to prevent parasites, you can give half a clove of garlic once every two weeks.
In addition to natural food, there are many ready-made canned and dry feeds of various companies. If you decide to feed your Pekingese with such food, then choose the feed of famous manufacturers, although they are more expensive. But such food will provide your Pekingese with the necessary nutrients and vitamins.
What can not feed Pekingese?
Pekingese, as, indeed, other dogs, you can not give the following products:
- sugar and various sweets;
- fried, smoked and spicy dishes;
- sausage and sausage products;
- salt;
- legumes and potatoes;
- any bones (avian, meat, fish).
It should be remembered that the body of Pekingese is different from human, so the food of the animal should be well balanced, and then your dog will be healthy and cheerful.