| Premium pet food tends to have higher nutritional | | | | best off feeding your puppy on a schedule. |
| value. | | | | This better controls elimination when trying to house |
| In particular, foods such as Science Diet, Eukanuba, | | | | train. In addition, many dogs will overeat and become |
| Nature's Recipe. | | | | overweight on a free-feed schedule. But for other |
| This means you can generally feed your dog a | | | | dogs, such as dogs with gastric problems or older |
| smaller amount of food. | | | | dogs, frequent small meals may be better for them. |
| Also, they tend to be highly digestible which means | | | | If you are unsure, you may want to discuss your |
| that there is less waste to clean up in the yard. | | | | particular situation with your vet. |
| For these two reasons, many people feed their pets | | | | We recommend that most dogs get the biggest part |
| premium foods over grocery store foods. | | | | of their daily meal in the morning and another smaller |
| But the decision is yours and many healthy, happy | | | | meal at night. That way they have energy |
| dogs have been raised on plain Purina Dog Chow. | | | | throughout the most active time of day and have a |
| FEEDING SCHEDULES: | | | | chance to burn off any excess energy without |
| There are two methods you can use to feed your | | | | gaining weight. The second smaller meal is to satisfy |
| puppy: FREE FEEDING and SCHEDULED FEEDING. | | | | hunger and replace lost calories e.g.: highly active |
| FREE feeding is when dry food is left out all day and | | | | dogs, Sporting and working dogs. |
| the dog eats as it wishes. | | | | In the case of early starts for working dogs this may |
| SCHEDULED feeding gives the dog food at set times | | | | need to be reversed so as to avoid cramping |
| of the day, and then takes it away after a period of | | | | muscles and fatigue. |
| time, such as a half hour. In most cases, you are | | | | Complete article can be found at Here-Is-Your. |