First of all, vegetables are a valuable source of fiber for your dog and also contain important vitamins and minerals. However, vegetables have never been an actual food for your dog and should continue to be one of the last ingredients in his dog food list in the future.
If you still want to give your dog vegetable food, then you should help him to "digest" the vegetables by serving them in an open state, crushed or mashed, cooked and mixed with some oil. Otherwise, a dog will not be able to crack the cell walls made of cellulose.
Offer your dog best-boiled potatoes, carrots and turnips, occasionally crushed cooked legumes or even finely chopped spinach.
You should never feed them:
Eggplants
Avocados
Beans (raw)
Elderberries
Legumes
Potatoes (raw)
Quinces
Radish
Onions
Feed only in very small quantities:
Artichokes
Wild Garlic
Peas
Garlic
Kitchen herbs with strong essential oils
Tomatoes (only ripe)
Grapes and Raisins
Fruit as dog food supplement
In earlier times even the wolf or the wild dog ate fruits, especially berries, in due course. Some of our fellow dogs today still try the berries from our garden every now and then: raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, even apples are often stolen. Leave them alone - if they go to the fruits on their own, they will fill up some of the body's storerooms without thinking about it.
Attention: Some dog owners like to feed their dogs with dried fruit. It's basically not bad (even if fresh fruit is usually better), but if it is, you should be careful not to add sugar, sulfur or other additives to it.
You don't have to worry about this case. By eating grass, your dog cleanses his digestive tract. After all, he often picks up hair while cleaning his coat, which he then swallows down - and in the quickest case vomits without further ado. The grass guides the hairballs through the intestines - and at the same time provides a lot of vitamins!
There are many herbs that you can mix into your food, chopped up in small pieces, but here, as everywhere, the same applies: the amount makes the difference! - Parsley, cress, marjoram, basil, thyme, almost everyone has in the house from time to time, in spring you can add fresh dandelion leaves. Many herbs have a certain healing effect (which I will soon treat in an extra point) and some dog owners even swear by the old food plant "alfalfa" as an admixture.
If you still want to give your dog vegetable food, then you should help him to "digest" the vegetables by serving them in an open state, crushed or mashed, cooked and mixed with some oil. Otherwise, a dog will not be able to crack the cell walls made of cellulose.
Offer your dog best-boiled potatoes, carrots and turnips, occasionally crushed cooked legumes or even finely chopped spinach.
Dangerous fresh fruits and vegetables
You should never feed them:
Eggplants
Avocados
Beans (raw)
Elderberries
Legumes
Potatoes (raw)
Quinces
Radish
Onions
Feed only in very small quantities:
Artichokes
Wild Garlic
Peas
Garlic
Kitchen herbs with strong essential oils
Tomatoes (only ripe)
Grapes and Raisins
Fruit as dog food supplement
In earlier times even the wolf or the wild dog ate fruits, especially berries, in due course. Some of our fellow dogs today still try the berries from our garden every now and then: raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, even apples are often stolen. Leave them alone - if they go to the fruits on their own, they will fill up some of the body's storerooms without thinking about it.
Attention: Some dog owners like to feed their dogs with dried fruit. It's basically not bad (even if fresh fruit is usually better), but if it is, you should be careful not to add sugar, sulfur or other additives to it.
A few small tips:
- If your dog suffers from diarrhea, give him bananas or pureed apples,
- In case of constipation, give him some raw liver,
- After a plant-based deworming treatment, give it finely grated carrots,
- You can give him rosehip powder to increase his immune system.
What if your dog eats grass or herbs?
You don't have to worry about this case. By eating grass, your dog cleanses his digestive tract. After all, he often picks up hair while cleaning his coat, which he then swallows down - and in the quickest case vomits without further ado. The grass guides the hairballs through the intestines - and at the same time provides a lot of vitamins!
There are many herbs that you can mix into your food, chopped up in small pieces, but here, as everywhere, the same applies: the amount makes the difference! - Parsley, cress, marjoram, basil, thyme, almost everyone has in the house from time to time, in spring you can add fresh dandelion leaves. Many herbs have a certain healing effect (which I will soon treat in an extra point) and some dog owners even swear by the old food plant "alfalfa" as an admixture.
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