Many owners don't understand why dogs eat at the speed of war. They usually offer delicious food and drink, but their meals are not decent! As a master, you should understand the reasons for this so that you can prescribe the right medicine to correct it.
Why eat fast?
1 Lingering Habits
The ancestors of dogs survived in the wild and needed to prey on their own. The competition for food was very stressful, and they had to eat it quickly before their opponents took their food. This habit has persisted to this day and remains unchanged.
2 Changes in Life
If you want to eat meat in the wild, most of them need to separate the meat from the bones, which will take a certain amount of time, but now as a pet in the family, this step is omitted. So it has, to some extent, exacerbated the dog’s “wolfish gluttony.”
Eating too fast has many hidden dangers.
1 causes vomiting
Dogs eat too fast, food particles are not fully chewed, the whole into the digestive tract, easy to stimulate the upper digestive tract, causing the dog discomfort, the food vomit out.
2 Indigestion
Eating too fast is easy to eat too much, causing indigestion in dogs, which may lead to soft stools, stench, and even gastritis and other digestive tract diseases.
3 Obesity
Dogs eat too fast, which will make them always feel that they are not full and will continue to eat, which is easy to overeat and become obese. Obesity is also easy to cause joint, heart, blood pressure, back and spine diseases. It is easy to overeat.
4 Gastric dilatation-gastric volvulus
Eating too fast and too fast can also trigger stomach dilation-gastric volvulus, an acute disease that can be fatal. If the treatment is not timely, the dog may die within 1-3 hours.
Correct correct eating fast
1 Slow food bowl
Slow food bowl can effectively reduce the dog's eating speed, but also according to the dog's body type and mouth type to choose, buy slow food bowl is mainly to consider the size of the bowl, depth, material, anti-skid effect and cleaning degree.
2 Food-leaking ball
Leakage ball can not only help dogs slow down the speed of eating, but also promote intellectual development, but also help to pass the boring time, consume a certain amount of energy, and make eating very interesting.
3 Eat smaller meals more frequently
After determining the dog's food intake, you can divide the amount of food into multiple times, which can force the dog to slow down the eating rate to a certain extent.
4 password feeding
If the host has time and patience, you can try password feeding, and at the same time, it can also promote interaction and enhance feelings.
