Two Ways You’re Hurting Your Dog

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Two Ways That You Didn’t Know You Were Hurting Your Pets

Maintaining your pet’s health can be a real challenge – similar to the way it is for ourselves. You may not always know what you’re eating, or what is going into your food – suddenly, you’re in pain and bed-ridden for days at a time. Well, unfortunately your pets aren’t really safe from dealing with that same fate.
There are thousands of cats and dogs who die every day because of infections from what they are eating and drinking. How so? A lot of it has to do with bacteria intake that quickly gets to work in attacking your pet’s immune system. A weak immune system means a weak animal. Are you taking the right steps to prevent this?
Awareness is the first step. Here are two big ways that pets can be getting infected every day:

1. Dirty Food Dishes

How often do you clean your pet’s food dish? If it’s being done less than once a day, then something needs to change. Bacteria can build up and grow with all of the saliva, dust, debris, and leftover food sitting in your pet’s dish.

How Often Should You Wash A Bowl?

This answer varies depending on what you’re feeding your pet! If you’re mostly going with wet food, then clean the dish after every single meal. Wet food is more susceptible to bacterial growth, and goes bad faster. With dry food, you want to clean a dish at least once a day. Otherwise, your little buddy may end up biting off more than he or she can chew!
Make sure you also aren’t cross contaminating food either. This can happen when you add new kibble to old kibble, re-use unwashed containers, and mixing foods into the same dish. You can get your pet sick, and sometimes the consequences can be fatal. As an extra precaution, many dog owners have had good results keeping their pets healthy with canine supplements that build up a strong immune system. That way even if they confront harmful bacteria, they can fight it.

2. Dirty Water

If you’re out taking your dog for a walk, and he stops to drink from a puddle, think twice before deciding not to pull him or her away. The same applies to cats licking at condensation from the rails of your window. A lot of this stagnant water can be home to thousands of water-borne parasites.
What do these parasites do?
Many of them are responsible for symptoms as simple as diarrhea, and as serious as liver and kidney failure. They can cause severe discomfort in your pet, and even result in early deaths. Keep your pets away from stagnant bodies of water, especially if they have immune deficiencies.

Can We Take Steps Against This?

Obviously, you want to make sure your pets are drinking healthy water and eating from clean dishes. This removes a lot of the risk that harmful bacteria will find its way into the stomach, and spread throughout the body.
Taking actionable steps to build up a strong immune system in your pet will also make it a lot stronger, preventing the chances of illnesses and early death. There are also WHO (World Health Organization) approved supplements on the market designed for keeping your pets in good health and safe from thousands of illnesses.
Using supplements to build up a strong immune system will keep your animal healthy, so that he or she can live a long, full life. It isn’t always easy keeping our pets safe, so it’s important that we do everything we can to get the job done.
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