Inadequate feeding leads to insufficient energy, weight loss and hunger. Overfeeding leads to overeat, weight gain, and obesity. Deficiency disease, caused by lack of specific ingredients in the diet. Toxicity, caused by excess of specific ingredients, such as a certain vitamin or a certain mineral.
Nutrient osteopathy:
1. Rickets is a vitamin deficiency D. Dogs cannot use calcium appropriately, and their bones become weak and bent, and their joints are swelling. This disease is seen in dogs that grow rapidly but do not receive nutritional supplements in their diet.
2. Osteoporosis is caused by a diet with low calcium and high phosphorus. The bones look normal, but they are fragile and easy to break.
Hypertrophic skeletal dystrophy (ostescurvy):
Strange disease, especially in tall dogs. Ostescurvy causes pain and swelling around the long bone growth plate. It is generally believed that this disease is a vitamin C deficiency caused by rapid growth and excessive vitamin D supplementation.
How to treat:
A proper diet can prevent these diseases, but if the above situation occurs in the dog. The veterinarian should be asked for guidance, and the veterinarian may be given an intravenous vitamin or a special diet.
Obacteria:
The normal distribution of fat in dogs includes: thin layer of fat under the skin, fat layer between the abdominal wall muscles, and abdominal fat deposition.
Except for the disease, the varieties with smooth fur may not be able to see the ribs, but they are easily touched. The fat layer above the ribs exceeds 5 mm to indicate obesity. Do not make your dog too obese, because being overweight is easy to cause osteoarthritis, it is difficult for veterinary examinations, and increases the risk of anesthetic dosage and surgery. Treatment of obesity:
The only way to treat overweight dogs is to reduce feeding. Increase exercise, but this doesn't completely solve the problem. In addition, the following principles need to be followed: do not eat biscuits, do not eat fat, replace the canned diet with a weight loss diet, use wheat bran as a hunger, use cooked vegetables as a hunger, try (weight loss diet) canned food (get from the veterinary), and use multiple vitamins for treatment-specific treatments for dogs with limited diets.