I. Can dogs really not eat salt?

The rumor is that dogs can't eat salt, so why does dog food still contain salt ingredients?

Do you remember that it is written in many places that the ingredients that cats and dogs cannot ingest include things like chocolate, garlic, and grapes in addition to one is salt?

As for whether salt can be said to be consumed by pets, there are a lot of arguments inside and outside the circle.

The most common sayings are these two.
1. dogs can not eat salt, because eating salt will lead to cardiovascular disease and also lead bad hair.

2. dogs can eat salt, usually we eat what it eats, there is no problem!

Dogs are not unable to ingest salt, but the intake of too much is harmful, the correct feeding is indispensable!
Dogs eating salt will lead to what results: dogs will eat too much salt, especially when the water is not enough, will cause dogs picky eating, hair loss, easy to induce skin, kidney problems, high blood pressure, and other problems, and even serious words will appear food poisoning, heart problems, and other dramatic reactions.
So when people hear this news, they don't give their dogs food like salt.
But is it true that dogs can't eat salt? But as a curiosity explosion of the pooper scooper, the controller is quite interested in the pet's dog food ah, so once also deliberately tried the taste of dog food.

This is not the kind of single dog food with chips inside ah, like the controlling owner to eat several dog food, inexplicably found actually ...... The taste of dog food is a little salty ~

And in the back of the dog food, we also found something different, that is, in the dog food formula, we found the salt.
Then one side is saying that dogs can't eat salt, so they can't eat human meals, and the other side is that it's the salt found in the dog's dog food.
This is a very contradictory thing, we should believe that the dog food should have salt in it, or continue to believe that dogs can not eat salt?
Dogs are not prohibited from consuming salt, but excessive intake is harmful and proper feeding is essential
But one thing is undoubted, that is, direct salt is no human or animal to eat, after all, the taste is really bad ah, a bite can snore a person to death wow.
But in the salt and other foods combined, we can find that salt is the first of all flavors, many dishes, obviously before very general, but after adding salt will feel very delicious.

And the reason for this is simple, the main component of salt is sodium chloride, from the point of view of nutrition, the intake of salt is to intake sodium as a mineral. The sodium ion serves as an important electrolyte for the body (another equally important electrolyte is potassium), required for normal nerve conduction and muscle activity, and also to maintain normal osmotic pressure.

It amplifies the taste of food by stimulating the taste buds, and that's what salt does in terms of taste enhancement.

So do dogs need to consume salt? Of course, they do! There is no doubt about it!
Any living creature needs to consume salt, because salt is actually to provide sodium chloride to the creature, and the lack of sodium chloride will lead to problems with nerve conduction and muscle weakness.
Just like the wild deer or goats in the mountains, they tend to lick the mountain rocks just because there will be some mountain salt precipitated on the rock walls.
So it's not that dogs can't eat salt, it's that they can't overdo it!

Everything must know the point that too much is not enough, and the right concentration of saline is called physiological saline, that is, the same structure as the concentration of our body fluids, and the physiological saline at this concentration can be directly absorbed and used by our body.
The saline with too high a concentration is called brine, which used to be used to order tofu, but if the brine is accidentally drunk, then the organs in the body will fail.
The reason for this is that overly concentrated brine will draw water from normal cells to achieve a balance.
So it is correct that dogs should not eat human food because the salt content of many human foods is more than what is acceptable for dogs. The normal size and weight of a human are more than a hundred pounds, while a small dog weighs only a few pounds, and if the dog is given food according to human cooking habits, then it will only take a few days for the dog to have problems, which lies in the fact that it is too salty.

As for why salt should be added to dog food? Let's just briefly talk about

1. Adding salt to dog food can improve the palatability of dog food and can make it more acceptable to dogs.
The dog's sense of taste is very bad, compared to the dog's sensitive sense of smell and hearing, the dog's tongue simply can not be as sharp as humans to perceive a variety of different flavors, but weak perception does not mean there is no sense of taste, and the physiological role of salt is to stimulate saliva secretion, promote the role of other digestive enzymes, but also to improve the taste of feed and promote appetite.
However, if the pooper scooper tastes a bite of dog food, general dog food salt is very high and often poor quality, so the pooper scooper can also identify dog food based on this.

2. Adding the right amount of salt to dog food can improve the shelf life of dog food, not easy to deteriorate in the storage process.
The ingredients in dog food are mainly starch, protein, and fat, and these ingredients can easily be used by bacteria as a breeding ground for their growth in a normal environment to give birth to a large number of offspring, which may metabolize some harmful by-products in the process.
But in the salt environment, the growth of bacteria will be suppressed, just like raw meat put on for three to five hours will slowly appear smelly, but a pot of cooked roast meat can be put at room temperature for more than ten hours and not bad.
Dog food generally does not add too many preservatives, so the appropriate addition of salt is important because it can play the role of corrosion insurance.

3. Salt is an essential element for dogs, and a long-term lack of salt intake can lead to abnormalities in the dog's body.
Salt can provide physical strength to living creatures, people who do heavy work because they sweat a lot and lose a lot of salt from their bodies, so the food they usually eat will require a heavy mouth because the lack of salt will lead to weakness.
When salt intake is insufficient, the acidity level in the dog's cells will rise sharply, which in turn damages the body's DNA cells and induces cancer.
Dogs can develop muscle cramps and spasms, and the lack and loss of salt can cause the space between polyp cells to shrink, which in turn increases the pressure on peripheral nerves, causing pain in dogs.
In addition to this, hyponatremia and hypochlorhydria can occur, manifested by muscle weakness, nausea and vomiting, headache and drowsiness, painful muscle spasms, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and reversible ataxia.
Therefore, it is true that dogs should not consume salt excessively, but if they are not given salt at all, then it will only harm them.
Normally, all dog food will include the appropriate salt content, so if your dog is eating regular dog food, then there is no need to worry about the salt content, after all, dog food is based on the dog's nutritional formula and blended into a fast food product.
But if the shoveler likes to cook for the dog, then we should pay attention to the correct intake of salt for dogs is required Oh!
The normal intake should be 0.4~0.7mg of salt per 1kg of body weight per day. In other words, the daily salt requirement for a 10kg body weight dog is 4-7mg. If you eat too little or too much, it will not be good for your dog's body.

For the relationship between the dog and salt, then the shovel officer do you have enough to understand it?