Generally speaking, the individual size and leg bone thickness of puppies when they grow up are related to heredity, but food intake has little to do with nutritional status. In the growth and development stage, the growth of each part is not balanced, such as the main growth body and weight from birth to 3 months, the main growth body length from 4 to 5 months, and the height of the main growth body after 7 months. Therefore, we should pay attention to both balanced nutrition and adequate nutrition during the growth and development period. If the dog eats too much, it is easy to hurt the stomach and affect the gastrointestinal function. If you eat too little, you can't guarantee the nutrition necessary for your body's growth and development. Thin body, poor resistance. Once sick, it is even more dangerous. Growing dogs generally have balanced nutritious food (solid or semi-liquid food). The daily feeding amount per kilogram of body weight is about 60~70 grams, divided into 3~4 times.
(2) Excretion: Eat 3 times a day and defecate about 3 times. Dogs sometimes pee because they are happy or afraid, which is a sign of emotional richness or nervousness. It is generally difficult to control, but it can disappear naturally in adulthood.
(3) Education: the basic education of puppies and the education of developing good eating habits. Puppies are not allowed to play while eating. If she suddenly stops to play while eating, she can take her food away and let her eat it at the next feeding. If she eats well, she can be praised Be gentle with the puppy and don't scold it too much.
(4) Health: Health check once a month, and urine and urine test. Regular deworming
Preventive injection: After vaccination at the age of 2 months, due to the incomplete development of the whole immune mechanism and insufficient immunity, repeated injections are needed to enhance the body's immunity. When the puppy develops to 3 months, it must be injected with rabies vaccine. This is the regulation of the dog-raising law, and it is also her right to the dog and her obligation to the owner.
3-month-old dogs tend to pick up things from the ground to eat, and sometimes unexpected things enter her stomach, such as buttons, pebbles, needles, nails, plastics and so on. These foreign bodies are easy to damage gastrointestinal mucosa or cause intestinal obstruction. X-ray examination should be considered when dogs are found to have severe vomiting and abdominal pain. If it is determined to be obstruction, measures such as surgery should be taken in time, otherwise it will be life-threatening.
Feeding a four-month-old dog
(1) Food: 4~8 months is a very important growing period for puppies, and it is necessary to meet the various nutritional needs of dogs. 4-month-old dogs can be fed special dry dog food and rice. Cooked meat, fish, vegetables and broth can be mixed with special foods, or with rice and pasta. Add some calcium powder and vitamin A and D solutions to the food. If you cook it yourself, you can add a little salt, but don't overdo it.
Food intake varies with dog breeds and body size. If there are several dogs, it is impossible to give the same number. Generally, the amount of food similar to the size of the puppy's head is fed every meal, and it can be fed 2-3 times a day. How much each dog can eat must be mastered and controlled by the owner.
(2) Excretion: Generally, the stool is twice in the morning and evening, and the amount is also large.
(3) Education: After the puppy was born for 4 months, the deciduous teeth began to fall off and the permanent teeth began to grow, which led to itchy roots and disorderly biting. This bad behavior should be stopped.
(4) Health: physical examination, monthly health examination and urine test. * * Prophylactic injection: After the first two injections, I will strengthen the immunization again and repeat the injection (specifically, according to the requirements of vaccine use, the interval vaccine I use is generally required to inject the dog with vaccine three times in 6 weeks, 9 weeks and 12 weeks respectively, and then strengthen the injection once a year).
It should be particularly emphasized that due to weight gain, nutritional requirements increase, especially when calcium cannot meet the needs, dogs may suffer from rickets, which may cause deformation of long bones of limbs or swelling of joints, resulting in "O" or "X" legs. For large dogs of medium build or above, it is more important to observe whether there are morphological changes in the front and rear limbs. Adjust the calcium and phosphorus balance in time and irradiate regularly? Dogs should not walk for long. Generally, 4-month-old dogs should not walk on the road. Soft grass or mud should be selected to prevent limb deformation.
Feeding five-month-old dogs
(1) Food: On the basis of 4-month-old food, we should not only increase the amount of food, but also increase the amount of rice, flour and beans. , plus eggs and so on. Can improve the digestibility of plant protein. Large dogs of medium build and above should be fed with meat cooked with quick fire (beef, mutton, chicken and other meat are recommended). In addition, adding some plants to food is good for dog's skin and fur.
(2) Excretion: generally twice a day in the morning and evening.
(3) Education: In order to prevent her from chewing at will, the puppy occasionally urinates and defecates everywhere, which may be due to some factors that lead to unsatisfied mental requirements, such as the owner being often lonely or severely scolded, being mentally hit or the place where she urinates and defecates is unclean and unable to excrete, which may lead to "angry" behavior of the dog. This is not only severely reprimanding the dog, but also considering whether to meet the requirements of the dog and make improvements to jointly correct this bad habit.
(4) Health: health check, monthly urine test. 5-month-old dogs should not take her for a walk on the road to prevent infection. Dogs can play and exercise freely with rubber balls or artificial bones on the balcony or yard. Diseases susceptible to infection at this time are colds, gastroenteritis and canine distemper. After four and a half months, the dog's disease resistance gradually increased and the disease decreased. Take a bath 2~3 times a month, and pay attention to prevent colds.
Feeding of dogs aged 6~7 months
(1) Food: 6 months old is the period when dogs eat the most according to their weight. It is the stage of increasing body length and height. The food provided should be rich and comprehensive, which plays a decisive role in the future health of dogs. Reference to the use of 4~5 months old food.
(2) Walking: Feed the medium-sized and above dogs. When they are 6 months old, put a collar on the dog and tie a rope to go for a walk outdoors. At first, many dogs were too timid to walk. Take her out to find a quiet place for a while, and then let her walk back. After several times, she got used to it and was willing to go out for a walk.
It is advisable to take a walk in the morning and evening. Generally, each walk time is 10 minute for small dogs, 20-30 minutes for medium dogs and 1 hour for large dogs.
After getting into the habit of walking, dogs will take walking as a pleasure and become a necessary part of life. Once the owner is a little lazy and doesn't take her out for a walk, it may cause physical dysfunction. For example, some dogs will have adverse reactions such as noisy appetite, constipation or inability to urinate. Therefore, it is the owner's responsibility to take the dog for a walk.
(3) Education: 6 months old is the peak period of puppy biting (the puppy's deciduous teeth fall off and grow permanent teeth). The habit of biting will be eased in the future.
The 6-month-old male dog is in heat. For humans, especially women, they often scramble to grab hands or feet, bend their backs and swing back and forth, and sometimes secrete mucus. Seeing this kind of action, we should prevent food poisoning caused by eating indiscriminately. In addition, there are many opportunities to walk and contact with external pathogens. Should we pay attention to prevention? The dog was bitten or stabbed by a foreign body in the fight.
6 months old is easy to catch a cold, gastroenteritis, canine distemper, infectious hepatitis, parasitic diseases, cartilage? 2~3 times a month in spring and autumn, and/kloc-0 times a month in winter.
The feeding and health management of 7-month-old dogs are basically the same as those of 6-month-old dogs. Pay special attention to going out for a walk. As the dog grows older, its strength also increases. In particular, little Aha often leads people to run when walking. We should correct him, focus on you, and cultivate his good habit of running with him from an early age.
Feeding 8-month-old dogs
(1) food: 8-month-old dogs are close to adult dogs, but their internal organs are still growing and developing, so they should continue to be given nutritious food. Vegetables and fruits, Chinese cabbage and apples can be added appropriately, which are all good choices.
(2) Estrus: After the bitch reaches sexual maturity at the age of 8 months, the vulva swells and the vagina bleeds. After ten days, the amount of bleeding gradually decreased. At this time, the bitch accepts the mating of the male dog and becomes pregnant. Generally, the first estrus should not make the bitch pregnant. In order to keep clean and hygienic, the bitch can use raw pants at this time and take them off when she goes out for a walk without affecting her urine and urine.
(3) Education: During this period, she must be educated to know what to do and what not to do, and develop good habits.
3 Causes of dog diarrhea and simple treatment:
It is necessary to accurately find out the cause of diarrhea in dogs and treat them symptomatically.
First of all, don't treat diarrhea dogs with fluoperacid and berberine! Because some drugs can be taken by people, but they have toxic side effects on dogs. These two drugs are like this! Remember!
There are many common causes of diarrhea, and the right medicine has a good therapeutic effect:
First, indigestion
This is the most common cause of diarrhea, especially for puppies under half a year old. Simple dyspepsia is also called loose stool.
1: change food
The puppy's stomach is very delicate, because the digestive system is very delicate and lacks many digestive enzymes. Dogs eat canned food or simple meat when they are less than three months old, which is easy to cause indigestion. If it is not digested well, it will cause diarrhea. If left unchecked, it will cause dehydration and be very dangerous. Therefore, you cats, parents and dogs must be cautious about this situation of the little guy. On the premise of making sure that you are not infected with any diseases (the family environment and food can ensure hygiene, and the puppy has been immunized), you can stop feeding indigestible foods such as canned food and meat, and feed two lactase tablets once a day, two or three times, which will be effective one day.
In addition, in this case, you can also try "Mommy Love" (Duowei lactic acid bacteria powder, which can be bought in pharmacies and is for babies. ), a small tube at a time, mixed with powder in dog food or directly fed after dissolution, twice a day, the effect is the same as that with lactase. And "whole intestine" also has this effect. Just choose one of these three that is convenient for you.
If you need to control your diet, you can be hungry for about 1 day first, and then don't overdo every meal, so that her stomach can be adjusted first. Don't be nervous about diarrhea in this situation, the key is adjustment.
2. Catch a cold
With the change of seasons and alternating temperatures, many dogs are prone to diarrhea. Generally speaking, as long as the dog's spirit and appetite are not different from usual, it can be considered that the weather is abrupt and the cold causes diarrhea. It is necessary to keep dogs warm and adjust their digestion properly.
3. Enteritis
The symptom is that besides diarrhea, the dog's mental state is not good and his body temperature is elevated. In this case, the symptoms of dogs are very similar to infectious enteritis (canine distemper). After confirming that the dog has been immunized, it can be treated according to the following methods. Otherwise, please go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis as soon as possible.
Gentamicin injection can be taken orally. It is common for pharmacies to pack 80,000 units in two milliliters and drink 20,000 units each time, twice a day. It should be noted that after taking Gu Qing for more than half an hour, dogs need to be fed some digestive AIDS of live bacteria, such as lactase and Mamiai. Help the cat recover its digestive ability.
You can also go to the drugstore to buy "Smecta" to stop diarrhea for dogs. Different from Qingda, it takes bacteria out of the body by physical means.
4: Parasites
If you need to take medicine to kill insects, you'd better go to the hospital for a stool examination first, and then take medicine in a targeted way.
In addition, because of diarrhea caused by parasites, BB may see bloodshot. Conversely, if you see such a BB, you'd better test it. It is recommended to deworm once every three months to completely put an end to this phenomenon!
The most important thing for a dog with diarrhea is to observe its mental state and appetite. If there is no difference at ordinary times, it is enough to adjust his stomach. If you have fever and poor mental performance, it should be inflammation. Enteritis please refer to the above treatment methods or go to the hospital for examination and treatment.
4 Dermatosis and simple treatment:
1. Fleas and lice can move on the body surface, inner thighs, armpits, under the neck and deep fur, and can be seen by the naked eye (because people's body temperature and body hair are different from dogs, they can't survive on people, so they can be caught boldly). The eggs of fleas and dog lice are white, so if you see black spots on dogs, that's their feces.
2, mites are generally under the skin, the dog's abdomen, the inner thigh root or little red dot's skin, and the skin around the lips is red and depilated. Dogs have ear mites, brown secretions in their ears, and sometimes they scratch their auricles because of itching.
3. Fungi, the local skin infected by dogs is depilated and damaged, and the skin is red one by one.
4, eczema, herpes and other purulent dermatitis. Generally, there are blisters and pustules on the skin of abdomen and inner thigh.
5. Dermatosis caused by allergy comes suddenly, with large area and red skin.
How to deal with it simply at home?
1. Disinfect purulent and inflamed skin with hydrogen peroxide, and apply anti-inflammatory ointment on the affected area, such as erythrosine ointment and sulfur ointment, but Piyanping contains hormones and should be used with caution.
2. If it is caused by fungi, apply clotrimazole, tinea and dyclonine ointment.
3, caused by mites, coated with sulfur ointment.
Apply these ointments three times a day for one week. )
4. Fleas and lice can be washed with trichlorfon, or with mirex drops on the back, or with Stemona, or buy a cat and dog flea ring (it must be placed for one day after it is opened). The pet store sells Fulaien, which has a good effect, but the price is more expensive.
Once the skin disease is found, the pet's daily utensils and bedding must be cleaned and exposed to the sun immediately, and the floor should be cleaned and disinfected if necessary.
Here are several ways to treat skin diseases with drugs, all of which are very cheap and have no side effects. I hope it will help everyone ~
First, the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine is good for treating various skin diseases (mites, tinea ...), and even babies lose too much hair in different seasons.
Dictyophora dictyophora 20g Sophora flavescens 15g Fructus Cnidii 15g
Mulberry bark 20g Stemona 20g Glycyrrhiza 20g
The above dosage is one dose, once, 2 ~ 3 times a week, and 4 weeks is 1 course of treatment.
Put all the traditional Chinese medicines together in a large pot and add water for decoction 15 minutes. After decocting in water, pour out the residue and cool it to a suitable temperature. Soak the pet in the soup for 10 minute. You don't need to rinse after soaking, just blow dry.
Second, the prescription for treating mites, rhubarb gallnut lotion, is washed and soaked. Main ingredients: Fructus Cnidii, Galla Chinensis, Fructus Kochiae, and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei. Shanghai sulfur soap has a good acaricidal effect, but it is alkaline. If your pet's fur is dry, please use it with caution. If you find it troublesome to buy Chinese medicine, buy a bottle of Jieeryin. Don't laugh. This is a traditional Chinese medicine formula, which can kill bacteria and diminish inflammation, and has a mild nature. Let the puppy take a bath and give it some points. Anyway, staying dry has the same effect, but it can work more or less)
Three: the method of killing fleas by cigarettes and the cleaning of cigarette immersion liquid. Tobacco leaves of cigarettes contain a lot of nicotine. Everyone knows that nicotine is so powerful that even horses can be poisoned, and they are not afraid to kill a few small fleas. Put 3~5 cigarettes into 50 ml of boiling water, filter the tobacco after 10 minutes, put the filtered liquid into a watering can and spray it evenly on the dog. Be careful not to spray on the dog's eyes, nose and mouth.
Fourth, orange peel can kill fleas. 250 grams of fresh citrus peel can be taken, sliced with a knife, wrapped with gauze, and squeezed out sweet and sour juice. Dilute the juice with 500 grams of boiling water, mix it evenly, cool it and spray it on cats and dogs, or soak it in citrus diluent with a towel and wrap it on cats and dogs. After an hour, fleas on cats and dogs will all die.
Five essential drugs for raising a dog:
In order to avoid the inconvenience caused by some unexpected situations at night or far away from animal hospitals, it is necessary for dog-raising families to prepare a common medicine box. However, some puppies are allergic to certain drugs and have doubts about the usage and dosage of various drugs, so be sure to consult a reliable veterinarian in advance.
1. surgical drugs
Hydrogen peroxide: If it is a common skin injury, you can use it to clean the wound first.
Yunnan Baiyao: If the puppy bleeds, apply the powder to the wound. If there is too much bleeding, let the puppy take some properly.
Anti-inflammatory powder (sulfanilamide crystal): a commonly used and effective wound anti-inflammatory drug. After being applied to the wound, it should be bandaged to prevent licking.
Purple potion: used during the growth period of wound skin.
Erythromycin Ointment: It can be used during the wound recovery period, and can also be used when puppies suffer from purulent skin diseases.
Special note: If possible, you should also prepare some popsicles. If the puppy is unfortunately broken, at this time, the light, thin and resilient popsicle can play a role. Because the puppy is injured, but its lively personality is easy to aggravate the injury. At this time, parents can use popsicles as splints to temporarily fix the broken limbs. In this way, when parents send their puppies to the hospital, the blood vessels, nerves, muscles and skin at the fracture will not be easily damaged again.
2. Digestive tract drugs
Multi-enzyme tablets, pepsin tablets, multivitamins: These drugs will be of great help to puppies with indigestion and loss of appetite, and can effectively regulate the gastrointestinal function of puppies.
Gentamicin tablets: Some parents are anxious about vomiting and diarrhea caused by indigestion. This medicine can play an important role in puppy diarrhea.
Metoclopramide tablets: If puppies vomit, parents can give them metoclopramide tablets to stop vomiting.
Development treasure: usually give dogs some tonics that can regulate gastrointestinal function, and also prevent dogs from having diarrhea.
Special note: if your dog has severe vomiting and diarrhea, you should see a doctor in time to avoid delaying treatment.