The correct way to feed your dog watermelon

As long as the dog's normal diet and water can be ensured, a small piece of watermelon is enough. You must not throw half a watermelon in front of it. Let it eat without fear. You should know that dogs eat anything without restraint. If it is something they are interested in, they will even eat until they vomit. If this thing is watermelon, it may cause frequent excretion, and even cause intestinal adhesions due to ingesting too many watermelon seeds.

The correct way to feed watermelon to dogs includes:

1. Remove all seeds from the melon flesh: The seeds of most fruits contain cyanide, which may cause diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms. ;

2. Control food intake based on your dog’s normal water intake. It is best not to exceed 500 grams a day: As mentioned earlier, most of the nutrients in watermelon are water. It is certainly a good thing to drink more water in the hot summer, but drinking too much water will affect the osmotic balance within the cells, which will lead to physical discomfort.

For people, a good subjective standard for replenishing water is "drink when you are thirsty, don't drink when you are not thirsty." For dogs, this type of risk must also be taken into consideration, so you must be fed of watermelon is included in the dog’s daily total water intake for measurement.

3. Feed the watermelon as soon as possible after cutting it. If you find that the dog does not eat it, clean it up in time:

Because of the high water content, after the watermelon is cut, the pulp of the watermelon will deteriorate quickly under the action of high temperature, abundant water and oxygen.

Even considering that dogs themselves are scavengers in the wild and have extremely strong stomach acid to fight spoilage bacteria, we should not take the risk of throwing spoiled watermelon to dogs. So, if you find that your dog is If you are not interested in watermelon, then you should get rid of the watermelon as soon as possible.

Would it be possible to buy an injected watermelon?

Don’t worry, this is a rumor

“Profiteers inject cyclamate and carmine into watermelons to improve the appearance of watermelons.” This news has been circulating on the Internet and various websites since 2012. It has been circulated on various mobile media, but according to experiments and various analyses, this news can be confirmed to be an out-and-out rumor.

According to experiments conducted by popular science website Guoke.com, to achieve this, there are at least five problems that must be solved:

1. Can liquid be poured into watermelon?

This problem is related to the injection location, injection dose, injection technique, and watermelon maturity. The final experimental conclusion is that it is indeed possible to push several milliliters of solution into the watermelon through a syringe.

2. Will there be an obviously identifiable injection hole?

The experimental conclusion is yes, but the difficulty of identification will vary depending on the injection location. However, as long as you search carefully, pay attention.A regular round hole like a shooting pinhole is easy to identify.

3. What does the watermelon look like after injection of pigment? Will the pigment spread evenly inside the watermelon?

The conclusion of the experiment is that the solution pushed by the syringe will spread evenly in a small area around the injection site, but unless large doses are injected from multiple angles, the entire watermelon cannot be stained.

4. After injection of pigment and sugar solution, will the watermelon decay faster?

After being left for 48 hours, the injection area will not show obvious spoilage characteristics from the appearance, but you will feel the change in taste when you actually taste it.

5. Will the injected solution flow back along the needle hole?

The results show that this problem mainly depends on the type of solution injected. After injecting the pigment solution, no obvious solution flowed out; after injecting the pigment + saturated sugar solution, some solution flowed out from the pinhole.