Feeding Puppies

How and What to Feed Puppies

If you are wondering, “What to feed puppies?”, they need to be fed a dry puppy food, and not adult dog food.

Puppy food gives them all of the proper nutrients that they need to grow and thrive.

Canned foods are not healthy for their teeth and gums and will not allow them to fully develop their mouth and facial muscles. They need that hard crunch! And dry food also helps with teething.

Though I do make my own “mix” of dog food for feeding my adult dogs, I stick with just one brand of puppy food for feeding puppies and stay with that until they are a year old.

I always allow puppies to eat as much as they want to at each meal.

I don’t allow puppies to free-feed due to housebreaking, but when they do get their scheduled meals, they are free to eat as much as they want during that time, as it is rare for a puppy to overeat.

A young puppy's feeding schedule should be 3 times a day. Morning, early afternoon, and early evening.

Since you are working on housebreaking, make sure you do not feed your pup late in the evening!

If you will be switching the puppy food brand that you got from the breeder, make sure that you make the switch over slowly, so you do not cause stomach upset.

I also do not give my puppies very many treats, except for occasional dog biscuits, until they get quite a bit older.

I've found that this greatly reduces the begging dog syndrome!

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