The cold winter is coming again. For elderly dogs, because their body resistance is weak, they are easy to catch colds and get sick, and thus die. At this time, in order to help the elderly dogs spend the winter healthily and safely, the owners must take care and love in all aspects.

The first thing the owners have to do is to do a good job of keeping the elderly dogs warm and cold, because for the elderly dogs, the warmth of winter is especially important for them. Important, as long as the temperature is low, they will immediately show great discomfort. Especially in the morning and night in winter, because the temperature is much lower than that in the daytime, if the owner does not do a good job of keeping warm, the elderly dog will easily freeze and shiver.

As for how to keep elderly dogs warm in winter, owners can put a warm water bag next to the elderly dogs when they sleep at night. When the weather is fine, owners can also take elderly dogs out to bask in the sun and do sports to enhance their physique. However, it should be noted that when taking the dog out for a walk, the owner must not dress the dog because the sun is good and warm, because even if the temperature is high in winter, Or put your dog in warm clothes. In order to prevent static electricity in dogs, owners should also pay attention when choosing clothes for dogs, and choose clothes made of pure cotton.

After keeping the dogs warm, the owners must adjust the dog's diet. As older dogs get older, their gastrointestinal function will become worse and worse, so they will become picky eaters. At this time, when feeding dogs, in addition to taking into account nutrition, owners should also consider whether it is delicious. Therefore, when feeding elderly dogs, owners should not only pay attention to the supplementation of protein, calcium and vitamin A, but also appropriately add some fish to the dog's food. >, meat, etc. Another point to note is that in winter, the metabolism of elderly dogs will also be affected and become slower, so the owners should feed the dogs some easily digestible food to prevent the dogs from indigestion. . In addition, in order to reduce the gastrointestinal burden of dogs, when feeding, owners can choose to feed multiple meals a day, so that elderly dogs can not only obtain sufficient nutrition, but also digest in time.

The last thing to note is that winter is a season of frequent canine infectious diseases. If you don't pay attention, the dogs at home may be infected with canine distemper or various canine parvoviruses. Moreover, because the recovery ability of elderly dogs is relatively poor, it is difficult to cure them once they become ill. Therefore, in order to keep elderly dogs away from these infectious diseases and germs, in addition to deworming and disease prevention work for elderly dogs in advance, owners should also Do a good job of disinfecting the dog house where the elderly dog lives, the trough for eating, the tableware and the surrounding environment to keep germs away. In addition, in order to prevent contracting infectious diseases, owners can also minimize the contact between senior dogs at home and other dogs or the time they spend outside.

Therefore, if you want the elderly dogs at home to spend this winter healthily, the owners must make adequate preparations for them in advance.