Proper nutrition of the French Bulldog

If you have a French bulldog at home, then for the rest of your life you will remain true to this breed. They do not much resemble the clumsy and unwieldy English bulldogs. Compact and mobile, with an expressive look of dark eyes, they are inquisitive and friendly, than they conquer at first sight. Representatives of this breed feel good even in a small apartment. If you have already made your choice, then we congratulate you. These dogs can really become wonderful companions and true members of your family. Today we will talk about the peculiarities of eating a French bulldog.

Choose the type of feeding

Even with the purchase you need to ask the breeder what he fed the puppies. Usually, the kids leave for the new owners at the age of 2 months, having by this time become accustomed to the feeding regime and the main products. Eating a French bulldog is very important, because it is on this that not only growth and development depend, but also life expectancy. They differ in principle:

• Traditional feeding with natural products.
• Feeding with commercial and dry feeds.

The main thing that unites these two approaches is the balance between proteins, fats and carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, and also microelements. But to feed the bulldog with remains from your table is unacceptable, it will lead to illnesses due to excess of salt and spices, as well as imbalance of nutrients.

Eating a French bulldog can be one or the other, based on your preferences. But do not forget that you should choose only quality products. Therefore, in the case of ready-made feeds, cheap grades of the economy class are left on the shelves.

Features of digestion

Despite all its sweetness, you have settled carnivorous beast. He can not and should not eat cookies, sweets and sausage, in which, as you know, there is practically no meat. Therefore, just forget about sharing your meal with him. On an extreme occasion, treat boiled meat, egg yolk or other healthy foods from your table. But it is better not to accustom the bulldog to beg, because no one can deny the charming look of this charming woman.

The normal capacity of the stomach in these dogs is 2-2.5 liters. The stomach is single-chambered, digestive juice is extracted into it, which contains a large amount of hydrochloric acid, necessary for protein digestion. The food of the French bulldog should consist of solid foods, it is this food that is retained in the stomach and is normally absorbed. Liquid soups and cereals, milk and yogurt leave it in a few minutes. From the stomach, food enters the intestine, where it pours out pancreatic juice , bile and intestinal juice. Meat is assimilated completely in 12 hours, and rice for 8. Accordingly, if the food of a French bulldog (adult) consists of a thick porridge with meat, then it is enough for him to have a single portion of 1.5 - 2 liters.

Feeding balance

The diet of a bulldog should not contain a large amount of fats and at the same time be balanced. This is especially critical for the period of development. But the main criterion for choosing is the quality of the products. Meat, for example, should be given only those varieties that contain the maximum amount of amino acids and vitamins. For example, the lung contains a lot of vitamin C, but there are almost no other important elements in it.

The need for basic substances

So, the diet of the French bulldog needs to be planned very carefully. For example, the protein fraction should be 9 g / kg body weight for a growing organism and 4.5 g / kg for an adult dog. The optimal sources of its intake are beef, lamb, horse meat and chicken, liver and egg, lactic acid products. But soybeans, beans and peas for bulldogs do not fit, they are poorly digested.

Fats are the second important element that should be present in the diet daily. This is the main energy material. The daily requirement is relatively small, 1.3 g / kg of weight. Fats of animal origin, they are obtained with meat, but their excess is bad for peristalsis. But vegetable fats are also useful, this applies, in particular, to sunflower oil.

Carbohydrates - are found mainly in plant foods. Natural food for a French bulldog must necessarily include oat and buckwheat, rice, bran and wheat bread. The daily requirement is about 10 g / kg of dog weight.

Vitamins and minerals

This is a very important group of substances, without which it is impossible to grow a healthy dog. However, if it receives quality meat, liver, eggs, kefir and cereals, then it will not need additional artificial additives. Vitamins are divided into two large groups:

• Water soluble - B, H, PP, C;
• Fat-soluble - A, D, E, K.

No less important are mineral substances, such as sodium and calcium, potassium and magnesium, phosphorus and iron. If you want to choose the optimum complex of vitamins and minerals for your dog, then contact your veterinarian. Inspection of the animal along with the analysis of the diet will allow you to choose exactly the course that the dog needs now.

Natural Feeding: Basis

The nutrition of a French bulldog puppy is especially important for its growth and development. Right now, all the organs and systems of his body are laid. Approximately 40% of the diet should account for quality meat. Babies under three months are given lean beef in raw form, cut into small cubes. Teenagers from 4 months can receive lamb and horse meat, boiled chicken meat.

By-products - liver, spleen, scar and lung should be necessarily boiled. The diet of a French bulldog puppy must necessarily include these products, starting at the age of four months. From the same time it is recommended to replace meat with fish twice a week . It is better to take sea, necessarily boiling and removing all the bones. Do not forget to increase its quantity 2 times compared to meat.

Additional products

Priorities are correctly placed. The products listed above are the basis of the diet. If you try to raise a puppy on a porridge with the smell of meat, then nothing good will come of it. So, what constitutes the remaining 40% of the diet?

• Dairy products - kefir and cottage cheese, yogurt. They need to be given every day.
• Eggs - one yolk per day is enough.
• Vegetables and root vegetables are an excellent addition to the diet. They can be put out, and then mixed with meat. Suitable carrots and zucchini, beets and greens, pumpkin.
• Cereals - alternate between oatmeal and oatmeal, millet and buckwheat, yak and rice. But macaroni should be avoided.

As you can see, the food of a French bulldog puppy at 2 months is not too complicated, but will require the owner of a stock of various products in the refrigerator every day.

Preparation of feed

Proper nutrition for the French bulldog involves not only the choice of quality products, but also the basis of cook art. The most useful products for a bulldog are raw. But if we talk about meat, fish and offal, it is fraught with a certain danger. Therefore, we choose the golden mean. Do not buy dubious products, feed them fresh and raw. If a piece of stale in the refrigerator, then boil for at least an hour. Scalding with boiling water can also serve as a measure to protect against parasites.

So, the meat is cut into small pieces or passed through a meat grinder. If it is boiled, then the broth can be fed with meat, diluting them porridge. Rice should be boiled, buckwheat for the night steamed kefir or water. Hercules just boil it for an hour. Vegetables let's be raw or stewed with sour cream for a few minutes. And most importantly, the food should be warm and mushy.

Amount of feed

It will be necessary to determine by experience. It should be understood that very few breeds like to eat as much as a French bulldog. Eating an adult dog should be moderate. Completely eaten food and a licked bowl - this is an indication that the volume is chosen correctly. If the pet leaves food in the cup, then either it is sick, or, more obviously, you overfeed it. And what if the dog does not want to leave the cup, insistently shoves it and shows that he wants more? Distract her attention, and next time give a little more. So you will find the optimum amount of feed.

Complete ready-made feed

They can save a lot of time and power of the owner and at the same time are extremely convenient. The dose for the French bulldog is already calculated. Moreover, each type of forage is designed for a certain age. Vitamins and minerals are included in the composition, it remains to not forget only about clean water. There is only one rule, choose a high-quality feed. By classification, they can be divided into three large groups:

• Economy class. Produced from soya with the addition of dyes and fragrances. They have little protein, and are digested quite badly.
• Premium feed - as a source of protein are 2 varieties of meat and fish. But there are no vitamins and minerals in the composition.
• Feed super-premium - as sources of proteins are taken at least three varieties of meat and fish. Contain all the necessary vitamins and minerals.

Feeding rules

Every landlord who owns a French bulldog must know this. Nutrition and care - this is the basis for a long and healthy life of your pet. Try to feed the bulldog at the same time. From month to two the baby is fed 4-6 times a day. Up to four months can be transferred to four meals a day. Then increase the interval to 10 months. Now the food can be offered to the dog 3 times a day. After that, we switch to an adult diet, in the morning and in the evening. Do not forget that for the French, the combination of a traditional diet and prepared dry food is unacceptable. This causes an imbalance in the work of the intestines and a metabolic disorder.

Instead of concluding

About food dogs can talk endlessly, but the most important indicators are the activity and vigor of your pet, its good fatness, but not overweight. If you see that the sides have become too rounded or sagging, the hair has faded and began to pour, there have been changes in behavior, the dog has become selective in nutrition or, conversely, does not move away from the cup - do not pull it, contact your veterinarian. Together you can find the cause and determine what to do with this further. Do not try to change the diet, offer the dog something particularly tasty and especially harmful. If the pet has health problems, then this business will not help, and if not, just fix the undesirable behavior. With this approach your pet will live a long and happy life next to you.