Feeding Dogs: Factors To Consider

Feeding your dog properly can play a crucial role in helping him stay healthy and happy. However, since deciding the right amount of food to feed your dog can be an uphill task, it is best that dog owners refer to certain scientific facts and use their discretion based on their experiences regarding this matter.

According to experts, puppies less than eight weeks old should always stay with their mother. Puppies that are orphaned or leave their mother sooner are deprived of their mother’s milk and are more prone to illness. To feed a puppy, it is advised to feed him food that contributes to about 5% of his body weight. However, though this is only the preferred average, taking into account the size of the puppy is also important when deciding the proper amount of food for the puppy.

It is always best to feed your puppies until they feel full and satisfied. Generally, puppies can be fed until their abdomen looks a bit rounded. However, avoid overfeeding puppies as their bodies will be unable digest the food, leading to various health issues including diarrhea or stomach ache.

The serving size of the food and the number of times the meals are served in a day are important to consider when feeding an adult dog or a puppy. While an adult dog can digest large quantities of meals given to him few times a day, a puppy requires smaller portion size food at higher frequencies to remain healthy. However, as the puppy grows older, the quantity of food can be increased while the frequency can be decreased.

Old dogs usually become inactive due to age and require only a limited amount food with fewer calories and less protein to remain healthy.

Including raw food can help provide the required nutrients in your dog’s diet. However, the limit of intake should be only between 2% to 4% of their body weight. In addition, dog owners can increase or decrease the food intake of the pet after taking into account the visible effects of food on their dog’s health.

See Raw ground beef for dogs and cats.

The Trauma Beast Inside

Picture your trauma as a parasitic beast that lives inside you, gorging on a steady replay of your worst memories.

Every traumatic memory drains strength. It is not just about bodily strength. Trauma thrives on your physical, mental, and emotional energies.

Have you ever noticed how exhausted, nervous, and fragile you feel when a tragic event occurs to, or around you? Traumatic memories can keep putting you in such a place over and over again.

The beast inside scratches, pushes, stings and stabs. When you feel you are being torn apart and experience a heavy pain in your chest, it is the trauma beast unleashing its rage.

The replays may consist of one or more tragic circumstances in your life. You experience verbal, physical, sexual and emotional pain in reruns that pop up when you least expect expect it.

The trauma beast does not want to let go, but continues its horrible abuse until you are so physically, mentally, and emotionally damaged that you are unable to live a normal life.

See Jesus’ victory on the cross and trauma.

Keep Your Dog Healthy With These Diet Tips

Properly feeding your dog plays a vital role in making sure he stays happy and healthy. Nevertheless, it can be a challenging endeavor to determine what is the appropriate amount of food to allow your dog to have on a daily basis. For this reason, dog owners should refer to specific scientific data, as well as use their discretion and experience with regard to this matter.

Experts state that puppies eight weeks of age or younger should remain with their mother. If the puppy is orphaned, and subsequently deprived of its mother’s milk, the puppy will be more prone to illness than dogs who remain with their mothers for at least eight weeks. Feeding a puppy approximately five percent of his body weight is a good general rule, but it is important to weigh the puppy or carefully observe his size when you dish out his food each day.

Puppies should be fed until they are satisfied and full. In general, a puppy can be fed until his belly appears slightly rounded, but puppies should never be allowed to gorge as it can result in stomach ache, diarrhea or other health problems.

When feeding a puppy or adult dog, it is essential to consider the times the meals are served and portion size. An adult dog can easily digest large meals twice a day. However, puppies should be fed smaller portions at higher frequencies to maintain their health. Another good general rule is to decrease the frequency and increase the serving size as the puppy grows to maturity.

Dogs typically become inactive when they reach old age, and therefore require only small amounts of food with less protein and fewer calories in order to remain healthy.

You can help provide nutrients to your dog by including raw food in his diet. Nevertheless, this should be limited to approximately two to four percent of the dog’s body weight. Additionally, observing the results of the management of your dog’s diet will also help to determine if you are handling his food intake properly or need the advice of a veterinarian.

Things to consider before getting a dog.

Working With Various People

Once we make the decision to dedicate and commit ourselves to the living God, we can no longer act is if obeying Him is N/A (John 14:15). Simple commands such as ceasing iniquity, keeping the Sabbath day and not mingling and conspiring with active sinners become as much of a reality as giving to the poor does. Jesus did eat with sinners, but he ate with them so that he might minister to them to repent and accept life. He did not continue to sit with sinners who blatantly told him that they were not going to follow him or do any of his commandments. He moved on.

We are to love other people to the best of our ability, and ask God for help loving the ones that we can’t. The way we express our love depends on the situation and the person with whom we are dealing. God doesn’t always give us what we want because it doesn’t always fit his plan or will. Therefore, we may not give every person every thing that he or she wants just because we follow Christ and have to “love” them. People have to be careful that they do not try to abuse the term “love.”

Furthermore, we don’t always have what someone asks us for. The poor are not very good at giving to the poor, for example. A poor person’s donation ends up looking very small to the naked eye, but in heaven it means a lot because it comes from the heart.

The best way that we can show people that we love them is to shed a light on sin and share the gospel message. If they reject that love because it isn’t false “feel good” love, then they weren’t looking for any integrity or truth at all.

See the consequences of disobedience.