New year, new challenge- is it time to review your dog’s diet?
Lots of us make New Year’s resolutions like ‘exercise more’ or ‘join a running club’, or ‘try a new sport’ to motivate us for the next 365 days. Being a dog-loving nation these resolutions often involve participation from our dogs who are usually more than obliging to join in on a run or two. While making changes to our dog’s exercise routine and our own can be a great move, this means we often need to take a step back and review the diet we are feeding them.
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Increased activity, increased nutrition?- Keeping the weight on
With the season underway, we will start to build our dog’s fitness levels in preparation for the upcoming months. This means adjusting the duration, frequency and intensity of their activity so they are prepared to meet the demands of the work ahead.
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Body condition – Be the best!
Body condition is a term widely used when talking about pet health and diet, but do you really know what is meant by the term and how best to monitor body condition?
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Using nutrition to support perfect performance
The dog has an entire biochemistry that is preadapted to use dietary fat as a source of energy, so for highly active dogs, a moderate to high level of fat in the diet is important.
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Movement matters – Keeping joints healthy, the Skinner’s way!
Keeping active is essential for a dog’s mental and physical health whether it’s retrieving their favourite toy, having a mad five minutes with a canine buddy, going for a long walk or keeping active in some other way…
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Measure, Monitor, Manage – Part 1
Written by Skinner’s Nutrition Team Obesity is ranked as one of the most significant human health issues. Similarly, obesity ranks as one of the most common forms of malnutrition in our dogs. Malnutrition I hear you say? How? Surely a malnourished animal is an underweight animal? Well, obesity (and indeed any animal carrying a little more … Continued
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Best National Parks for your pooch
We our so fortunate to be surrounded by beautiful walks. The UK is home to 15 National Parks, meaning that wherever you are in the country, you can be sure that to have a National park relatively close to you. To celebrate it being National Park Week this week, we thought we could give you … Continued
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These paws are made for walking…
May is national walking month. Sometimes it is easy to forget just how good walking is. This got us thinking about the importance of walking not only for our pooches, but also for ourselves! It can be hard to feel motivated to do regular exercise. However, we have found the paw-fect personal trainers! Our pooches … Continued
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National Walking Month Competition
This May, we are celebrating the fact that it is National Walking Month! We need exercise just as much as our pooches do, but sometimes it can get a little neglected. To encourage you to get out with your four-legged friend, we are running a very exciting competition. You will have the chance to WIN … Continued
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Keeping Fido Fit, Not Fat! – Part 4
In this series, we have explored some of the key points about managing weight. It’s a sad fact of life that often the best diet in the world fails when “normal” habits are adopted. This is why it is so important in any weight management strategy, to identify and implement habits and strategies that are … Continued
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Keeping Fido Fit, Not Fat!- Part 3
Part 3 – These “legs” were made for walking (and running and playing!) Written By Dr. Jacqueline Boyd, Nutritional Consultant, Skinner’s Pet Foods One essential part of any weight management plan is combining both nutrition AND activity. We have previously thought about monitoring weight and what we feed our dogs as an integral part of … Continued
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Measure, Monitor, Manage – Part 2
In order to help keep your dog in shape, there are some important lifestyle aspects that we have to think about. In the first article in this series, we looked at the idea of measuring, monitoring and managing the amount of food we feed by weighing it. As well as weighing your dog’s food, we … Continued
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