Have you ever heard the phrase garbage in garbage out?
If you feed your healthy dog a high quality food, you can expect a dog with the best life expectancy and quality of life. This is the dog food we endorse: https://shop.pawtree.com/countrykennelsid
We love PAWTREE food for your new puppy. Pawtree benefits:
- USA produced
- no recalls
- variety of recipes to accommodate everyone
- no artificial flavors or preservatives
- Incredible food efficiency
- Consistent bowels for your fur baby!
- Healthy fur coats on your fur babies.
- 100% satisfaction guaranteed
- everyone can access it (because it is sold & shipped to your door through the internet)
If you buy 3 non food items from Pawtree, shipping is FREE! Buy some gastro pro plus and dog treats too. We love anything that is freeze dried for treats. I also select the EZship and put it on a reorder of once a quarter.
For food, we prefer to buy a bag/recipe of Turkey & Brown Rice and combine it with a bag/recipe of Turkey & Sweet Potato to feed all of our dogs (including puppies). We believe in the adage “you are what you eat.” That is why we feed premium dog food. We have also found that because there is a higher nutritional value, our dogs eat less and therefore poop less. Hallelujah!
Like human babies, puppies start out needing many small meals a day, of a food formulated for their special nutritional requirements. Most, but not all, dogs finish meals quickly. To discourage picky habits, feed at regular times in regular amounts and don’t leave food down for more than 10 to 20 minutes. Feeding at regular times can also lead to regular potty habits which comes in handy for potty training.
Feeding Your Puppy: A First-Year Timeline
- 8–12 weeks: Growing pups should be fed puppy food, a diet specially formulated to meet the nutritional needs for normal development.
- 3–6 months: Sometime during this period, decrease feedings from four to three a day.
- 6–12 months: Begin feeding twice daily.
- After age 1: Some owners feed adult dogs two half-portions a day or if their dog can self regulate, leaving a bowl of food out all day is acceptable.
There’s a saying in canine feeding: Watch the dog, not the dish. Body condition, not the amount eaten or left in the bowl, should determine portion sizes. Portion sizes depend on individual metabolism and body type, and nutritional requirements vary from dog to dog. If your puppy occasionally skips a meal or picks at food, don’t worry. It could mean he/she is ready to eliminate a feeding or that you have given her too much, in which case simply reduce the quantity served.
Also, if you are doing treat-based training with your pup, adjust the amount you feed at mealtime accordingly. Whenever training with treats, keep the treat as small as possible.
