The cold winter is coming again. For elderly dogs, because their body resistance is weak, they are prone to colds and illnesses, leading to death. At this time, in order to help elderly dogs spend the winter healthily and safely, owners must provide careful care and care in all aspects.

The first thing owners should do is to keep their elderly dogs warm and protected from the cold, because for elderly dogs, warmth in winter is particularly important to them. As soon as the temperature drops, they will immediately show great discomfort. Especially in the morning and night in winter, because the temperature is much lower than during the day, if the owners do not do a good job of keeping warm, the elderly dog ​​will easily tremble with cold.

As for how to keep elderly dogs warm in winter, owners can put a hot water bag next to their elderly dogs when they sleep at night. When the weather is fine, owners can also take their senior dogs out to bask in the sun and do some exercise to enhance their physical fitness. However, it should be noted that when taking dogs out for a walk, owners must not not put clothes on their dogs just because the sun is nice and warm, because even if the temperature is high in winter, they still need to put clothes on their dogs. Warm clothing. In order to prevent static electricity in dogs, owners should also pay attention when choosing clothes for their dogs, and choose clothes made of pure cotton.

After doing a good job of keeping the dogs warm, the owners must adjust the dogs' diet. As older dogs age, their gastrointestinal function will become worse and worse, so they will become picky eaters. At this time, when owners feed their dogs, in addition to considering nutrition, they must also consider whether it is delicious. Therefore, when feeding elderly dogs, owners should not only pay attention to supplementing protein, calcium and vitamin A, but also appropriately add some fish, meat, etc. that dogs like to eat into the dog's food. Another thing to note is that in winter, the metabolism of elderly dogs will also be affected and slow down, so owners should feed their dogs some easily digestible food to avoid indigestion. . In addition, in order to reduce the gastrointestinal burden of dogs, owners can choose to feed multiple meals a day when feeding, so that elderly dogs can not only obtain sufficient nutrition, but also digest in a timely manner.

The last thing to note is that winter is a season when canine infectious diseases occur frequently. If you are not careful, your dog may be infected with canine distemper or various canine parvoviruses. Moreover, elderly dogs have poor recovery ability, so it is difficult to cure them once they get sick. Therefore, in order to keep elderly dogs away from these infectious diseases and germs, owners should not only do deworming and disease prevention work for elderly dogs in advance, but also Disinfect the dog house where the elderly dog ​​lives, the food trough, tableware and the surrounding environment to keep germs away completely. In addition, in order to prevent contracting infectious diseases, owners can also try to reduce the contact between elderly dogs at home and other dogs or go out.Time etc.

Therefore, if you want your elderly dogs to spend this winter healthily, owners must make adequate winter preparations for them in advance.