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Looking After Your Dog, Part Five - Dog Food

With an enormous variety of dog foods available, deciding what's best for your dog can often be confusing.

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A balanced and nutritious diet is essential for your dogs health. Though dogs have an inherent liking for meat-based foods, they can very well survive on a vegetarian diet, provided its complete with all the required nutrients. With an enormous variety of dog foods available, deciding whats best for your dog can often be confusing.

Water is an essential component of a dogs body, and your pet should have access to it at all times this could prevent dehydration and overheating. As far as the number of feedings is concerned, for an adult dog, one or two feedings a day would suffice. However, puppies need to eat more frequently than an adult dog. Up to fifty percent of an adult dogs diet may comprise of carbohydrates.

As for the food type, you could feed your dog with homemade food or commercial dog food. In general, commercial dog foods are available in three forms - dry, semi-moist and canned; with the most prevalent being dry dog foods. The dry form has a meager 10% of water content and should be