Older Dog Diet Tips

Video Transcript

"If you feed you dog raw meat, you might need to start actually weighing the food you're giving them. These are chicken necks. If the dog was younger and active, you might just throw a bunch of chicken necks in and be monitoring the dogs weight as you go along. If they get older, you might need to be a little bit more precise about how much in fact your dog is eating. So getting yourself a scale so you can see exactly how much you're feeding your dog. If it turns out that you're feeding a certain amount and your dog continues to be heavy or in fact gain weight, then you would actually just feed less per meal until you hit upon an amount that you want to feed. Another thing that you might want to think about with diet is supplements, especially if you have a large breed dog. You might want to use a joint health supplement. You might want to add something. These are tablets, chewable tablets. You might want to add something to their diet. You might want to add digestive enzymes. Certainly yogurt with whole cultures are very good, but it's going to be different for each independent dog. Certainly a small breed dog, a miniature breed dog is not going to need joint health supplements as much as for example Hannah, the rottweiler that we're looking at today, is going to need that. Digestive enzymes. It all really is going to depend on the dog and you want to work with your vet and your knowledge of your dog to know what's best for your dog to be eating."