My Lil Miss Maggy May will be 1 year in November. I spoke with my vet about when to switch her and he said it was ok to go ahead and start the switch anywhere between 10 and 12 months, it's the large breed dogs that need to stay on the puppy food a year or longer. So, I started very slowly switching Maggy May over to adult dog food about 4 days ago. She was on Wellness Just For Puppy's (Super 5 Mix) and I'm switching her to Wellness Small Breed Super 5 Mix Adult Health. She was getting to be a lil chunky butt with the puppy formula after her spay, the doc said I may want to give her a lil less food. I used to give her 3/4ths cup (what it called for on the bag) and then I cut it down a lil from that. The adult mix has less calories and after I get her switched over completely to just that, I'll see how her weight does with the recommended suggested feeding. If she's still a lil chunky butt, I'll speak with her vet again about how much I should give her. it's a really awesome food though and Maggy May does so well on it. Good luck to you.
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