| If you have decided that you will feed your | | | | water, we are mostly discussing dry puppy |
| dog or puppy prepared dog food or prepared | | | | food mixes. Canned preparations are not |
| puppy food, then your next decision is what | | | | cheap so you are paying a lot for water. |
| type of food should you be feeding your | | | | Best to use a premium dry puppy food and add |
| puppy? You will need to do some research on | | | | to it.A suggested menu is the dry puppy food |
| the prepared puppy foods available if you | | | | with a little canned dog food, which is |
| decide not to pursue feeding puppy a raw food | | | | mostly meat, and moistened with a little warm |
| meal.Become a label reader. The higher | | | | water. Usually, canned puppy food will have |
| priced puppy foods will usually come from a | | | | enough fat for the puppy as well. A couple |
| company that is or has conducted extensive | | | | times a week, you might replace the meat with |
| research on providing the best nutritional | | | | some cottage cheese or a cooked egg. Some |
| food to your puppy. So a rule of thumb is | | | | trainers who have raised dogs for a very long |
| that the inexpensive stuff is not going to be | | | | time even suggest adding a tablespoon of |
| as good as the more expensive puppy foods.Do | | | | yogurt with live culture a couple times a |
| not buy any puppy food or dog food that lists | | | | week.Less than six months, feed three times a |
| a starch or sugar in the first four | | | | day when puppy feeding and then go down to |
| ingredients. You want a premium puppy food | | | | two times a day. Give your puppy about 15 |
| that lists a protein source as one of the | | | | minutes to eat his food and then remove and |
| first two ingredients. (As a note based on | | | | refrigerate it. At the next feeding warm it |
| recent studies into human nutrition, do not | | | | up before feeding puppy. The 15 minutes goes |
| have that source be soy-based.)Providing | | | | to your puppy training efforts as you can |
| carbohydrates in the form of green vegetables | | | | read in other articles.As your puppy develops |
| when puppy feeding is quite all right. Even | | | | over the next few months up to his first |
| raw foods advocates add some non-starchy | | | | birthday when he should start on dog food as |
| vegetables to the dog food they mix. So this | | | | appropriate for him, keep an eye on him. Be |
| is an ingredient you may expect to find on | | | | aware of over feeding your puppy and beware |
| some puppy food labels. However, animal | | | | of him growing too fast. It is possible for |
| nutritionists have found dogs derive no | | | | a puppy to be growing too fast and this can |
| nutrtional value from carbs such as sugar and | | | | impact his health, so double check his growth |
| starches even if many dogs foods are 50% or | | | | with your veterinarian.Copyright 2005, Sandra |
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| and are used as fillers in dog good.As canned | | | | Your New Puppy Home and Puppy Training". |
| puppy and dog food can be as much as 75% | | | | |