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Originally Posted by mina0710  Check with your vet because wet food doesn't have all the nutrients that dry food has. If you look to see the percentage of proteins and fat ... etc needed each day, the wet food is always less than the dry food.
What brand of wet food are you feeding your puppy? The lower level brands of wet food basically have no nutrients at all ... |
Wet food has to be converted to a dry matter basis because it is at least 75% moisture. That is done by dividing the protein by the recipracol of the moisture. If the moisture is 80, the recipricol is 20 (100-80) If the protein is 10%, then that is 10 divided by 80=.5 or 50%. So the food is 50% protein but a lot more has to be fed because most of it is water and not other nutrients. The same goes for homecooked. While Ellie ate about 1/2 cup a day in kibble, she eats over a cup with homecooked. Canned can be fed as a regular diet nutritionally speaking if it is preferred.