Raccoon Dog Pet - The Nature of these Exotic Animal

The raccoon, though domestic, is still a forest animal, so do not expect it to be as obedient as a dog, or quiet as a cat. Rather, Raccoon diet is a fundamental factor in health. The raccoon will be in your home as a child who will never grow up. Choosing the right food for the raccoon is very important for its health.

There are two ways to feed the raccoon: straight or dry. In this article, I will tell you all the nuances of both types of feeding.

What does raccoon eat

Let's start with the fact that while the raccoon is little, it drinks Mommy's milk, if you took your little stripe too early from Mommy (1-2 months), you just need to feed it by hand through pipettes and bottles with bitch milk substitute. Today there is a huge variety of mixtures on the market for our little pets. Both dog and cat mixtures are suitable for a raccoon.

 On various forums you will find a lot of disputes on this topic, but, in fact, the choice to do only you! When feeding your baby mix it is important to observe the correct proportions when breeding, because the amount of fluid does not mean that all of it is nutritious. If you add a little mixture, it will be roughly speaking "colored water", in this case, you can freeze your baby hungry. Personally, I advise the firm meradog. Proper feeding of raccoons is very important at the stage of feeding.

• It is important:

In no case do not feed the baby raccoon cow's milk, it contains much fewer nutrients, and you also freeze the baby hungry. In the first months of life, the raccoon is awake just to eat.

 Over time, the breaks between meals are reduced and the amount of sleep is reduced. 

While the raccoon is very young (1-1,5 months) it is fed every 3-5 hours (according to the principle: waking up, it means hungry). The raccoon is fed until he refuses to eat, and even after that, he is offered several more times to make sure that the baby really eats! It is very important to massage the tummy after eating! It is necessary to imitate the tongue of the soap by taking absorbent cotton and moistening it with warm water, this is done in order to ensure that the food is passable through the entire gastrointestinal tract. If you ignore the massaging of the stomach, a blockage may occur, which will lead to death. To put it simply: the baby will not be able to defecate, intoxication will occur and the raccoon will die.

• Feeding example:

1. 1mes - 40ml every 2-3 hours (at night raccoons may not wake up and ask for food, but be prepared to feed them at night).
2. 1.5mes - 60ml every 5 hours
3. 2mes - 80ml every 5 hours
4. 2.5mes - 40 ml every 5 hours + cottage cheese with grated banana and egg
5. 3mes - a completely independent meal from a bowl.

When your baby is a little older (you will notice it by the number of active phases), he should be transferred to adult nutrition. For starters, you can try to give your baby bread soaked in the same mixture that he is used to. The raccoon will lick and learn how to suck the mixture. During the growth of the baby can be introduced into the diet of eggs (both raw and cooked), cottage cheese, pieces of boiled chicken or meat, fresh fruit: bananas, grapes, apples. Only one product can be introduced per day! Give and watch the reaction (taste and chair), so you can identify the personal food preferences of your raccoon and watch his body digest certain products. Over time, you will develop a complete diet for your pet.

Basic rules of raccoon diet:

1. Feed the raccoon 2-3 times a day.

2. It is necessary to take into account individual features and season. For example, closer to winter, the raccoon begins to eat more, and animal food to accumulate fat. In spring, the raccoon begins to actively lose weight and can eat only a few nuts a day. By the summer, the raccoon can lose up to 6 kg, do not be afraid, it is a natural process, in autumn the raccoon will start to recover again.

3 Do not overfeed the raccoon. Any animals with excess weight live less because of the additional load on the heart and other organs.

4 Eliminate harmful food from the raccoon diet: any sweets, flour, spicy, salty.

5. Do not try to make a planned raccoon diet, because the raccoon, like a person, is subject to external factors, such as mood, well-being, etc., so one day he may want and float a carrot, and the other day he may want to give up the carrot. The raccoon itself will tell you what to feed him, the main thing is to watch the pet.

6. Remember that each raccoon is individual and has its own taste preferences. What is not tasty for one, for another - a treat.

Choose raccoon food according to the taste of your pet

When holding a raccoon straight, you should understand that a raccoon, like a man, is omnivorous. But do not forget that some products are useful for us, and many are not, the raccoons also. Of course, they can eat anything, but this does not mean that they can eat anything. For example, there is a common opinion that raccoons eat cookies. Any flour products raccoons are contraindicated, and cookies (oatmeal only) are rarely given as an incentive, as is the case with nuts (only a few pieces per week).

Now a little bit about "dry" raccoon diet

Raccoons are usually fed dry dog or cat food, of course, the choice of food is up to you. What is the problem with this kind of feeding? It would seem that everything is simple: wrote three times a day and the raccoon is satisfied.

The veterinarians say so: if the animal sits on dry food, he should not give anything from the table! This means that nothing will be allowed to treat the raccoon, but how to resist these mosquitoes? The fact is that the less food a raccoon eats, the easier it is for the digestive system, the enzymes produced know how much and what to process, and if you move away from the diet, you may have problems with the GIT.

In any case, it is up to you to decide how much to feed the raccoon. The main thing is that the raccoon is healthy, happy, and fun. Love your pets and feed them correctly.

Raccoon eats:

List of products that you can give a raccoon:

1. Meat, fish (both raw and boiled, but better heat-treated products):

•  Chicken
•  Beef
•  Turkey
•  Veal
•  Bunny
•  Heck
•  Mintai
•  Cod
•  Sea bass
•  Flounder
•  Putassou
•  Tuna
•  Shrimp
•  Crabs

2. Fruits, vegetables, berries:

• Grapes
•  Apples
•  Bananas
•  Peaches
•  Pear
•  Kiwi
•  Figs
•  Plum
•  Milk
•  Watermelon

•  Carrot
•  Fresh peas
•  Boiled corn
•  Asparagus
•  Zucchini
•  Pumpkin

• Malina
•  Strawberry
•  Cherry
•  Smorodina
•  Gooseberry
•  Strawberry
•  Blueberries

3. Oatmeal, milk, and sour products

• Oatmeal
•  Buckwheat division
•  Muesli
•  Fig
•  Cake
•  Yogurts
•  Milk
•  Nuts
•  Oatmeal 
• cookies
•  Dryers
•  Honey
• Dried Fruits
• Eggs
  

 4. Exclude:

•  Sweet
•  Salty
•  Spicy
•  Smoked
•  Citrus
•  Redfish
•  Chocolate!