If you’re like most people, when you look at the shelves of dog food in the store, you’re bewildered by the choices available: puppy foods and senior foods, foods for large dogs and small dogs, diet foods for pudgy pooches, foods that claim to be all natural, foods that promise to improve your dog’s coat, [...]
The first place you need to look when trying to decide on a food for your furry friend is the label on the bag, box, or can. Reading a dog food label isn’t very different from reading the one on your cereal box. A certain amount of nutritional information must be included on the label, [...]
Many people free-feed their dogs, which is the practice of keeping a dog’s bowl full and letting him eat whenever he wants. Although this may seem like an easy approach to feeding, free-feeding isn’t a good idea, for many reasons: • Dogs who are free-fed are more likely to be overweight. This may not have [...]
Healthy dams of good breeding produce healthy offspring. The probability of producing healthy, vigorous puppies can be improved by breeding animals from lines known to be free of genetic problems, by avoiding inbreeding, and by breeding bitches between 2 and 6 years of age. When these criteria have been met, success depends primarily on the [...]