Changing to Preservative Free Diet
You might face quite an amount of trouble while changing your dog’s diet to a preservative free diet. Especially when your pet dog is finicky about the taste of the food provided for eating. In that case, keeping your pet on a fast for couple of days can help it to overcome the distaste experienced while eating the food which is though not quite tasty but free from harmful preservatives. Fasting would help your dog to set for a new diet. It will also detoxify the body of your pet which was used to in consuming commercially prepared diet. The following steps might help your dog to get accustomed to a healthy preservative free diet.
- Keep your dog on a fast for a whole day. Be careful of putting your pet to a fast only when you are sure of the good health of your pet.
- During the time of fast make your dog breathe in fresh air. You are also recommended to keep him under a schedule of physical exercise.
- The vitamins and the other food supplements that you feed your dog along with food are to be discontinued. You may continue to serve your dog with liquid supplements.
- During the time of fast you may serve your pet with measured amount of fruits or vegetable juice. You are recommended not to feed with both of them.
- Try to give liquid food during the fast. You may serve your pet with broths of barley, vegetables and chicken.
- The aloe Vera juice can be given to accelerate the level of the process of detoxification.
- In order to stop hankering for more food you may engage your dog with a knuckle bone.
- Take your dog for a shower.
During the time of fast give your dog ample affection. You might find the stool passed out is loose and liquid; the urine might be strong smelling as the body would be in the detoxifying process. Your pet will slowly adjust to the new diet that you want to introduce to your dog.