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Dog - Nutrition
Variety in Your Dog's Diet
As long as you feed your dog AAFCO-approved commercial dog food designed to meet the nutritional needs of your dog at his current life stage, you don't need to worry too much about providing a wide variety of foods. At least not for nutritional reasons! To keep your dog from becoming bored with his food, you can feed two parts dry food to one part canned or semi-moist foods per meal, or two meals of dry food and one meal of canned food daily. Experiment with different flavors of food, if you like, but as a general rule, once you hit on a mix (brand) that your dog likes, stay with it to avoid the development of feeding problems.
Never be tempted to add variety to your dog's diet by feeding him table scraps, as this will decrease his appetite for the dog food that makes up his primary source of nutrition.
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