How many meals should a dog have is a concern for friends who are just starting to raise dogs. Because everyone has heard that dogs cannot eat too much. Eating too much is not good for their health and digestion, but they can't bear to watch their baby hungry. How many meals should a dog eat? Let me start with the weaned puppy.
Newborn puppies
Do not worry about their eating problems when they are born, because the mother dog will take good care of them. In one and a half months to two months, the dog's mother's milk cannot satisfy the puppies' appetite. You will see the puppies always circling around the mother, and the dog's mother always looks at them helplessly. Moreover, the puppy had already grown a lot of small fangs at this time, and feeding the puppy has become a more painful thing for dog mothers. At this time, you should appropriately supplement some food for the puppy. Use the washed milk powder to soak the dog food and feed it to the puppy. Be careful to have milk powder, because the bags of milk or fresh milk we drink are too high in fat, and the puppy will suffer from diarrhea after drinking it. If the dog mother still feeds the puppy twice or three times a day, as the dog mother feeds less and less, it will increase to four times a day. It's only once every six hours. It is easy to identify whether the puppy is hungry. They will yell whenever they are hungry and look for something to eat, so you can get up at five in the morning to feed them without an alarm clock. It's the price you have to pay to raise a puppy.
Three months to five or six months
Puppies can basically be fed three times a day, that is, three times in the morning, noon and evening. Pay attention to the time intervals as even as possible so that they can develop the habit of eating regularly. Puppies usually get stinky after eating, so when you prepare a meal for them, you must be ready to collect the poop when you see them eat voraciously. It is easy to judge whether puppies who don’t know whether they eat too much or not. You just need to look at their poop. Normal poop is a little soft but formed (you can't be disgusted. Observing dog poop is an important part of the work of dog parents). It should not be sticky and soft, nor should it have the original shape of food. If the puppy's feces are soft and not formed, and there is even no digestible food in it, it is obvious that it is feeding too much, and the food given to them will be reduced when taking the exam. At this time, you must hold on and not be confused by their pitiful little eyes.
Six months later
Six months later, if your puppy is growing well, you can gradually change its meal to two meals a day, that is, one meal each morning and evening. Eat regularly and go out for regular walks, and the dog will develop the habit of not being excreted at home, and being a parent will save a lot of trouble.
Adult dog
There are two statements about how many meals an adult dog a day, one is one meal a day, and the other is still two meals a day. There are different opinions on the good or bad of the two feeding methods. I personally think that two meals a day are healthier, and my dog has always used this method. Because I think it is too cruel to feed your dog a meal twenty-four hours a day, and the dog is in a hungry state for too long during the day. During this period, it will often ask you for food, such as jerky, biscuits and even people eat, which is actually even more harmful to the health of the dog. A full meal plus countless snacks is definitely not as healthy as a small amount of retail for two full meals. In addition, if you ensure that the dog only eats one meal a day without any other snacks, the dog's blood sugar will change greatly during the day, and the blood sugar will be very low when you are hungry, and the blood sugar will increase too much during the meal, which is also unfavorable to the dog's health. Moreover, hungry dogs eat quickly. They don’t chew well at first. In this way, they eat too much and don’t chew well, which makes the stomach and intestines too much burden. So I recommend you not to be afraid of trouble. Give your dog twice a day and then go out to play twice. This is better for gastrointestinal health and to satisfy the dog's exercise. For you, taking two steps a day is also a good way to exercise.