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