Feeding Your Dog: What To & How Much

by Craig Williams


WHAT AND HOW MUCH TO FEED PUPS, TEENS, ADULTS, ACTIVE / SPORTING, DOMESTIC or STERILISED PET, WHELPING AND AGED dogs.

PER DAY GIVE AS FOLLOWS.

PUPS

(Up to 8 weeks) Give 4 small meals per day.

(8wks-6mths) Give 3 medium meals per day.

FEEDING YOUR PUPPY

Premium pet food tends to have higher nutritional value. In particular, foods such as Science Diet, Eukanuba, Nature's Recipe. This means you can generally feed your dog a smaller amount of food.

Also, they tend to be highly digestible which means that there is less waste to clean up in the yard. For these two reasons, many people feed their pets premium foods over grocery store foods. But the decision is yours and many healthy, happy dogs have been raised on plain Purina Dog Chow.

FEEDING SCHEDULES:

There are two methods you can use to feed your puppy:

FREE FEEDING and SCHEDULED FEEDING.

FREE feeding is when dry food is left out all day and the dog eats as it wishes. SCHEDULED feeding gives the dog food at set times of the day, and then takes it away after a period of time, such as a half hour.