Dogs can eat salty things

We all know that eating too much salt is bad for dogs’ kidneys and fur, but many people don’t know that dogs need to eat a little salt. Humans are prone to fatigue if they lack salt, and dogs are also prone to fatigue. Not only are they prone to fatigue, but they can also easily cause growth stagnation, dry skin, and hair loss.

The amount of salt that dogs can eat

According to the standard value recommendations of the NRC (U.S. Feed Nutrition Standards), in dry dog ​​food that usually contains 10% moisture, the required amount of salt should be 1 % or more, which means that a dog weighing 1kg needs 22g of dry matter per day, so the salt needs to be 242mg after calculation. However, the actual dry matter requirement is usually 14~15g, so the actual amount of salt given Approximately, 165mg per 1kg of body weight/day is sufficient. If the owner usually feeds his dog dog food, because the manufacturer has already added salt to the commercial dog food, the owner usually does not need to add salt to the dog.

Dangers of dogs eating too much salt

1. It can easily induce skin diseases. It will cause the dog's hair to become dry and dull, and cause hair loss. It will also cause the dog's tears to increase, forming ugly tear stains on the hair, which are difficult to remove, and may even induce eye diseases.
2. Dogs eating too much salty food can cause picky eating, kidney, high blood pressure, heart and other problems.
3. Salt poisoning is easy to occur
4. A large increase in salt content will cause the dog to drink a lot of water, then have loose stools, then watery diarrhea, anorexia or waste food, and even paralysis in severe cases. A series of symptoms of salt poisoning.