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Dry Dog Food
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I add some wet food to my dogs complete dry food only a small amount but was wondering if he's having to much, hes nearly 9 months.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.So at nine months, he's going to be pretty well full grown.....so presuming he has a coat and you can't see his ribs, can you feel them? can you feel his spine? Is he lively and active? Coat shiny and healthy looking? It genuinely hard to say a dog should have "this much" food. I have got two dogs who are litter brothers. One needs to be given around a third more food than the other to keep condition on him. He is an idle devil whose favourite thing is to kip. His bro, who is more squarely built (takes after Mum not Dad) is constantly on the go and would spend the whole night out in the garden hunting if I let him, can get chubby quite quickly if I am not careful. Both weigh a lot more than the vet's chart says they should yet I can see the ribs and the spine on idle boy and his bro is solid muscle. Seriously the only way to tell how much food to give is to know your dog and how they should look/feel. If he looks and feels fine, enjoys his food, runs and plays without wheezing or limping and doesn't make masses of poo then you are golden.
It's not a problem as long as you alter the amount of dry to compensate for the extra he's having with the wet . I never go by the amounts they say on the packs, it's nearly always too much. I feed what looks right to me and if they start to put on or loose weight then you adjust accordingly. As Woof says you should be able to feel their ribs and they should have a waist when you look down on them.
I have six small and one large dogs fed on complete dry food, but I put one tin of wet food in with it and mix it up and share it between them all. At 9 months he should be on two meals a day still up to a year, then its up to you whether to feed once or twice a day. Mine only get fed once a day. If mine leave any (not often!)then I reduce it slightly or if they look like they are putting on weight. Be careful restricting a puppy as they need more goodness than adults to grow properly. JW is a good quality food so doesn't need supplementing but mine prefer their food with the small amount of tinned meat in even if its only about a tablespoonful each.
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We feed our twelve month old pup Canagan dried dog food. Once a week I cook either a chicken breast, open a tin of salmon, or cook a couple of frozen coley portions for him and give him a third if whatever in his evening meal, so three days a week he gets chicken or fish along with the dried Canagan.
He gets a slightly heaped cup measure of the Canagan twice a day. He never gets fed anything else, we used to have a golden retriever who was very greedy and sat and salivated while we ate so we decided this little chap was never going to have anything other than his own specific food. That's our personal decision and we're happy with it. So's he :)
He gets a slightly heaped cup measure of the Canagan twice a day. He never gets fed anything else, we used to have a golden retriever who was very greedy and sat and salivated while we ate so we decided this little chap was never going to have anything other than his own specific food. That's our personal decision and we're happy with it. So's he :)