What should I do about indigestion in pets? How to prevent pet dogs indigestion? Preventing indigestion in pet dogs is the responsibility of every pet owner. After adulthood, the growth rate of various tissues and organs in the body changes from high growth in puppyhood to gradually slowing down until it stops.

A dog's nutritional needs include maintenance nutritional needs and specific physiological needs. The maintenance of nutritional needs refers to the requirements of energy, protein, minerals, vitamins, etc. for a healthy dog when the body does not gain or lose weight, and when various nutrients in the body are in a state of maintaining balance of payments and expenditures.

Most dogs are gluttonous. If they only focus on satisfying the dog's appetite and provide unrestricted food, the dog's intake of nutrients exceeds its maintenance needs, which will cause the dog to suffer from obesity. And then complicated by many other diseases. Therefore, the amount of food for an adult dog should depend on the dog's size and daily energy expenditure.

Adult dogs in special physiological stages will also have corresponding changes in food digestion, absorption and nutritional requirements.

(1) Pregnant bitches: Due to the needs of embryonic development, the feeding amount and nutrient level of food can be appropriately increased. Also, the female dog's stomach cannot relax properly because the uterus takes up a lot of space in the abdomen. Therefore, it is best to eat small meals frequently to improve the palatability of food.

(2) Lactating bitches: not only to meet their own nutritional needs, but also to ensure the need for lactation, the need for nutrition and energy will suddenly increase. Therefore, during this period, the bitch needs to be provided with high-energy, nutritious and tasty food, and the amount of food needs to be increased.

(3) Aged dog: When the dog gets old, due to the reduction of activity, some physiological changes that affect the metabolic rate occur in the body, the demand for energy naturally decreases, and the digestive organs can digest and absorb food. If the ability is weakened, the food fed to the elderly dog should be of good quality, rich in nutrients and easy to chew. It is best to make the food semi-liquid.

(4) Sick dogs: Due to illness, their appetite has decreased, and they should eat less and eat more frequently, and provide them with food with special fragrance, good palatability, and easy digestion and absorption.