Dogs can get diabetes, just like other animals. If your doctor has told you your dog has diabetes, or is at risk for diabetes, it is important to follow your vet's suggestions for a healthy diet. Purina has dog food that can provide a healthy diet for canines with diabetes. Nataline Smith, a veterinarian in Minneapolis, offers diabetic diet recommendations for dogs.
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General Feeding
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Feed dogs with diabetes a food like Purina that is high quality and low in sugar. Keep your dog on a high quality, high protein diet, to ensure they remain healthy.
Encourage dogs with diabetes to eat at least four or five times a day. Dogs that have diabetes, unless they are overweight, should be allowed access to dry food at night. This is because when a dog's blood sugar drops, he is going to feel like having a snack, and the snack can regulate his blood sugar. If there is dry food available to him, he'll be more likely to eat it and take care of his problem on his own. Overweight dogs that have developed diabetes because of their obesity need to be on a carefully controlled and portioned diet. Talk to your vet about the right amount of food per day, divide it into four or five meals, and set them down at the same time each day. Remove any food your dog does not eat in five minutes. He will learn to eat his food at mealtimes.
Purina Diet
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Feed your dog a Purina Diabetic Diet. This consists of Purina Canine DCO Diabetes Colitis food. This is a brand of food that Purina has especially designed to help provide better liver and enzyme functioning to dogs with diabetes. Nataline Smith says that most dogs with diabetes can benefit from eating this type of food, which is fortified with healthy ingredients, and does not have any harmful sugars or preservatives.
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