There is a direct relation between the feeding of your Doberman
and duration of its life: it depends on how correct you feed
your dog and how its food goes with requirements of its body. Also
the food plays an important role in happiness of the dog:
specifically, whether Doberman will be healthy and full of
pith or its life will be full of endless health problems.
Good healthy dogs weighting less than 23 kg are allowed to eat
quality dry, partly dried and canned food. Adult Dobermans
whose weight exceeds 23 kg must eat quality dry food enabling
periodontology and odontopathy prevention and keeping large dogs
from getting fat.
Majority of dry feeding-stuffs contain little fat therefore they
are more low-calorie. In turn low calory food has a favorable
effect on physical state of Doberman altogether, because
large dogs have lower energetic requirements per mass unit than
small dog breeds do.
Simultaneously, in order to avoid fatty degeneration you should
reduce amount of partly dried and canned food in the menu of large
Dobermans.
If your Doberman
is not very quick and furthermore is fattiness-prone, then its
menu must contain higher level of cellulose but caloric value of
the food is to be lowered.
However you may not feed adult dogs with the food designed for
puppies or fostering bitches because these feed-stuffs contain a
lot of calories, protein, phosphorus, calcium and other mineral
substances. If these feeding-stuffs are used during short time
period then they are not likely to have deleterious influence on
dog health.
But long use of these may lead to fattiness. Again, a great number
of protein, phosphorus and calcium may cause different diseases
including kidney disease that is very dangerous to Doberman’s
life. In addition you should not change feeding-stuffs as a
well-balanced dietary of Doberman is quite enough for the dog to
be healthy.
And a bowl with clean fresh water must be always near the dish of
food. If there is a necessity to change the menu, then you should
do it gradually and during several days. Otherwise, when
feeding-stuffs are changed suddenly, Doberman may have vomit or
diarrhea.
But in general digestive upsets may be observed in dogs even when
different packages of the same ready food are used. Therefore you
are recommended to feed Doberman with high quality food which
ingredients are always the same.
