Can dogs drink milk?

Even if adult dogs don't do much anymore milk are allowed to drink, there are some delicious ones Foodthat you can use to replace the milk.

Dogs can get this much milk

• Puppies are given breast milk from birth. Although the milk contains a lot of fat, it supplies the animals very well and is tolerated by puppies and young dogs without any problems.
• The lactose contained in milk usually causes diarrhea in adult dogs. If the dogs are still puppies, then the animals are allowed to drink a lot of milk, because they can break down and utilize the lactose through the self-produced enzyme lactase.
• But when the dogs grow up slowly, the animals no longer need breast milk and the body therefore no longer produces lactase. It is therefore best not to give adult dogs any more milk or only in certain exceptional situations.

Delicious substitute milk to drink

• Even if your dogs are not allowed to drink normal milk, the animals do not have to do without it completely. There are a few substitutes you can give your pet without causing your dog diarrhea or other side effects.


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• You can get regular skimmed milk powder in stores that you can give your dogs to drink. This is a good and at the same time a tasty substitute for normal milk. You can use it to supplement the food or simply offer the dog a delicious drink as a small snack.
• But you can also offer your dogs a delicious change if you use puppy rearing milk. Because the dogs tolerate this milk powder well and it can be mixed with the food. Or you can stir the milk very thinly to drink.

Dairy products for the dogs

• You can not only provide the dogs with a replacement milk, but also some Dairy products use. The milk contained in these products is tolerated by the dogs and the animals are allowed to eat it without getting diarrhea.
• You can enrich the feed with low-fat quark or natural yoghurt or pamper the dogs with some cheese. Cottage cheese is particularly popular and can even be fed to dogs with a light diet. But here, too, you should make sure that you only add small amounts of the dairy products to the food and that you provide the dogs with the correct food as usual.

But you can also take advantage of the side effect of milk, namely diarrhea, if your dogs are constipated. Then the animals are allowed to drink milk so that the constipation is cleared.