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The feeding
Labrador is a dog whose development is rather rapid and endowed with a very thick structure. And' really for this reason that is of extreme importance not to underestimate the feeding and the movement.
The breeder will deliver you a two month-old pup, day more, day less, giving you the correct indications on the feeding to which has accustomed and what the schedules are in which owes to eat. He is usually preferred to divide per diem the meal in four times, to regular intervals (6 - 12 - 18 - 24), for then to pass to three times a day, continuing up to the 6 months, after wards another meal will be eliminated, spending per diem two times and it will be tried to maintain such habit. The pup needs a healthy feeding and balanced, without lacks of vitamins and mineral, but also without excesses. It almost always stretches out more him for a feeding "industrial", already ready and surely balanced, the famous croquettes. The breeder, will give you of the dry food that has actually used to that moment and he will tell you the brand and the correct quantities to divide in the four daily meals. Generally the pups of Labrador are very voracious, for this reason we try to watch out for the excesses. A pup will rarely fatten up excessively if supercharged, but you he will have the tendency to grow very more quickly and to excessively become heavy for his skeletal apparatus still in phase of formation and consolidation. And it is very better that a pup of six months is slightly smaller and light than the average, rather than too much big. If not sufficiently fed, the pup doesn't become an adult of normal ransom; he will slightly arrive simply to us later but there will be the risk to develop bony or articular pathologies typical of the express races growth. During the growth it will be good norm to hold under control the weight of the pup. After the two months you can weigh him every two weeks and to annotate the variations. The pups generally grow from the 700 grams to the kilogram every week, to avoid therefore to overcome this rhythm of growth. You introduce his bowl to the pup, (possibly of steel, so that to avoid that those in plastics few left hours)es for twenty minutes. If after this time he doesn't finish his ration, you will withdraw the bowl; it is better to accustom to eat him in defined schedules rather than to always have available the food.