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5 Feeding Tips To Keep Your Young Dog at a Healthy Weight For Life

217 views · Published 20 October 2017 · 3:14 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: Veterinary Network · 2017 · Howto & Style

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Exercise is a vital and integral part of maintaining your dog’s weight too, of course – as is monitoring their weight and working quickly to correct fluctuations that may indicate that your dog is getting too lean, or too fat. 

In this article, we will share five feeding tips to help you to start as you mean to go on with your younger dog, to keep them at a healthy weight for life. Read on to learn more.

Measure your dog’s daily food allowance.

Many dog owners simply scoop food into the dog’s bowl or pour food in until the quantity looks right – but if you weigh this food and compare it to the feeding guidelines for your dog’s breed and build, you may well find that you are feeding them too much. Just a small additional number of unnecessary calories every day will soon cause your dog to gain weight.

Count in the treats.

Treats can be incorporated into your dog’s daily diet, but they should be fed in moderation and factored into your daily food measurement, rather than given as well as the quantity of proper food that your dog actually needs. If you give your dog low calorie treats they can have more of them, but for high calorie rewards, they will only be able to have a few each day – so when you measure out your dog’s main portions of food for the day, factor in the treats and cut down their portions accordingly.

Feed multiple small meals.

Your dog should be fed at least two or preferably three meals per day, with their daily food portions divided up to give at the appropriate time. Feeding your dog just once a day will lead to them spending part of their day hungry and part of it overly full – which is not only not that nice for your dog, but also trains their body to hold on to weight and calories, and be very opportunistic about finding more food.

Giving your dog breakfast and dinner, and possibly lunch too will help to split their meals into portions that will keep them going all day long without getting too hungry.

Do not permit scavenging and begging.

A dog that scavenges or begs is both poorly trained and bad mannered – and much more likely to be overweight! If you teach your younger dog from the get-go that begging and stealing or scavenging food is not permitted, they will not try to do this as they get older, and so, will not run the risk of eating foods that will interfere with their healthy diet, or that may be bad for them.

Don’t feed your dog human food and scraps.

A dog’s diet needs to be designed for your dog, and not made up of or supplemented by human foods and table scraps.

Scraping the remnants of your dinner into the dog’s bowl is one of the fastest and most easily avoidable ways to cause your dog to gain weight – and cause problems later on when you need to restrict their food intake and return them to their healthy size.

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