Food must provide energy to provide movement forms for exercise and materials for growth and repair and reproduction.
Every cell in every biological organism needs the required balanced nutrients for optimum homeostasis. Your dog needs the correct food to function properly.
The food must have 6 basic nutrient properties of:
Water,
Proteins,
Minerals,
Vitamins,
Carbohydrates,
Fats.
There are various stages to an animals life, each stage will need different nutritional requirements
Supplements should not need to be fed if using a complete diet
There are a arrange of diets that are specific to common Diseases which can provide the correct nutrients to your pet when illness results in lacking of nutrients.
Young Animals-weaned
Growing animals as the young will need a much a higher plane of nutrition than adults at this stage.
The food must not only have the nutrients for maintenance but also to fuel rapid growth and an active lifestyle.
They will be a high demand for energy, protein and correct amino acids for growth, also vitamin e for certain bone forming minerals such as calcium and phosphorus.
A balance of these nutrients are critical at this time of growth and lack of nutrients can lead to later effects of skeletal problems and long lasting problems which could be IRREVERSABLE
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