Feeding regimen for your dog is a vital part of looking after any dog. But it's particularly important if you have got a new puppy because they are moving from their mother and to the food you are giving them and you have to get that just right if they are going to grow up to be a healthy and happy dog.
So, if you are taking home a puppy about eight weeks, I would recommend that they go into four meals a day, you will probably get a list of instruction from the breeder which will include timings and what type of food they are being feed and that's all fine. I will be a bit more cautious though about instructions and all things like little bits for breakfast, cup a tea for tea and a slice of toast at lunch time. Most of those things you can phase out gradually, I wouldn't stop them on day one because the puppy is probably used to them. But over a few days I think you can -- so that most of those things go by the way side and what I would recommend you do is get some good quality puppy food and probably a combination of wet and dry and give them four meals a day and basically have let them eat fairly as much as they can for five minutes or till they are full and then take the food away and this way they get used to having regimented meal times rather than food just being down all the time and they get used to having four meals which is ample food at this age.
When they get to about 11 or 12 weeks what I will do is cut them down to about three meals and then when they grow up even more four or five months down to two meals a day and that's what I will suggest to keep an adult dog on to two meals a day because that really splits their food two exciting times for the dog in the day, if you are just feeding them once and that's whole the excitement over it. First take in the morning and then they have got nothing to look forward to in terms of food until the next day. So for Jack he has had his breakfast this morning as you can see he is settling in rather well, he already but I think he is curled up because he wants his tea so it's time for his evening meal and with an adult dog it's important to keep them on the same food that they were on when you brought them, in which case Jack is on a natural dry food so that's what he is on and I am going to take him on. If you do want to change the diet of an adult dog, there are at least three or four ways, so a little bit of a new your food increasing amounts everyday, so it gives their digestion time to get used to it.
So this is jack's evening meal, I am going to feed him now and then just have a settlement for his first night at home.
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