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QHealth Observation

A vegetarian dog can be healthier and has stronger immunity to prevent diseases. It grows softer and shinier coat and milder temper. A dog that starts its vegetarian diet should be giving more attention. If the below situations happened, please go back to his original diet

Coat observation: the best indication of a dog's health is his coat. If a dog's coat became dull and drier after start the vegetarian diet food, it might mean your dog does not adapt to the vegetarian diet well. If this situation does not improve, please go back to his original diet.

Faecal observation: a healthy dog's stool should be compact without hard and no pungent odor. It might take sometimes for its stool to be back to normal after the change of diet. When you notice the stool is in unusual condition, it means its digestion system could not adapt to this new vegetarian diet. If this situation does not improve, please go back to his original diet.

Weight observation: if your dog is in overweight or underweight condition after eating vegetarian diet, please add the quantity of food to meet the nutrients that your dog needs.

QHow to Change

Make changes to your dog's diet slowly. Please add a small amount vegetarian food into its usual diet, then increase the amount slowly by replacing his old diet with the new. Make sure your dog is getting enough nutrition for his daily needs or else decreasing the new diet again for better adaption.

If your dog likes strong flavor, you may add some non-animal rennet cheese powders in your dog's vegetarian diet.

However the best time to begin vegetarian diet of your dog is when he is a puppy. Due to the different nutrition requirement of a puppy and adult dog, it is important to choose a suitable vegetarian diet food that meets the nutrient needs of your pet. A vegetarian puppy tends to grow healthier than a non vegetarian puppy.

It would be cruel to force your dog to change into vegetarian diet if your dog still prefer to its original food. Remember, your dog’s happiness is our priority~

QPuppy Care

Nutrition requirements between a puppy and an adult dog are different. A growing puppy needs more proteins, minerals and vitamins for his rapid growth.

Protein, calcium and phosphorus are important for teeth and bones growth. The absence of calcium and phosphorus will influence puppy's growth and lead to incomplete development of bones or rickets. Excess nutrients could obstruct the proper growth as well or lead to other serious health problems, including obesity, bone disorder, heart disease or kidney disease and so on. Choosing vegetarian diet food that contains sufficient nutrients formula that a puppy needs should be extra cautious.

If the food is too hard for puppy, suggest to soak it into warm water before consumption.

QSenior Dog Care

The needs of nutrient and organ function will decrease gradually for a senior dog. Demand of energy will decrease as well due to the decline of activity.

The diet for senior dog should contain the right amount of protein that required by the body. It is recommended to reduce the consumption of sodium and phosphorus in order to prevent kidney disease. Therefore, it is important to pay attention on the nutrition analysis of the food for senior dog. The nutrition of the food should not more than the senior dog needs. Please do not fully change the diet to full vegetarian at once. Sometimes, it is easy to change senior dog’s diet but sometimes it is not. Do not force the dogs on this diet change. You can try to feed them with lesser meat gradually, together with vegetarian pet food. If meat is necessary, please select those meats (fish or chicken) which are for human consumption.

QSpecific Sickness & Care

The long-term absence of vitamins and mineral substances in dogs' diet could cause skin disease. The absence of vitamin A, copper and zinc could cause skin disease and hair loss. Regular hair loss usually is related to the nutrients, so changing dog's diets into vegetarian diet foods could improve these problems.

Kidney disease and kidney stone in dogs can be eliminated by controlling the consumption of protein, phosphorus and sodium in their diet foods. In order to avoid excess consumption of animal protein, the best way is to feed your dogs with vegetarian diet.

QTaboo Food

Some foods which are edible for humans or other species of animal could become hazards for dogs because of their different metabolism.

For a vegetarian dog's health, taboo food should be stored in a safe place. Owners should pay more attention on choosing vegetarian diet foods that do not contain ingredients which are toxic to dogs. Chocolate contains theobromine, which is toxic to a dog's heart and central nervous system when consume in large amounts. Garlic and onion contain disulfide, which cause damage to red blood cells and cause heomlytic anemia.

There are a lot of dangerous foods for dogs in daily life. For your dog's health, every owner should have this relative knowledge.

QVegetarian Dogs

It's alright for dogs to have vegetarian diet foods. Dogs can live very well without eating meats, because they can get all nutrients that they need from non-animal sources.

The vegetarian pet food contains sufficient protein and has a balanced formula of omega-3 fatty acid and omega-6 fatty acid, supplying enough nutrition to strengthen immunities and to prevent imbalances immune systems, and then let dogs grow healthy skins and shiny furs.

The formula of calcium lactate could strengthen dogs' bones. Digestive enzyme could build up dogs' intestinal health systems.

Natural and fine selected grains and vegetables could reduce the source of allergic and reduce the fecal odor.

Vegetarian dogs own the following benefits:
◆ Healthy Skin and Shiny Fur
◆ Enhancement of Immunity
◆ Anti-oxidant
◆ Stronger Bones
◆ Odorless Fecal
◆ High Digestivity