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Originally Posted by TatumsMom  Are you saying you feed your other (non-pregnant) dogs the puppy food too? The problem I foresee this time is that with her last litter we kept a male - to be used as a stud hopefully in a year or so - and while they do eat from separate bowls, we don't exactly monitor them and they eat from each other's bowl sometimes so I'm thinking that it would be so much easier to feed them the same food. |
All my yorkies, males included, eat the same food. In past years I have fed Canidae, an all stages of life food but for the last couple of years I have stuck with the Chicken Soup puppy food because all my dogs do well on it. I have yorkies ranging from puppy to almost 14 years old and they all do very well with free feeding. Everyone does things differently. I never separate my pregnant females from the others until she goes into labor. I found that separating them is very stressful for them. Of course I am home most of the time so it is very easy for me to watch them since they all live in the house with me. When it gets close to whelping time I don't leave the house and the expectant momma will sleep in the bedroom with us.
I really feel that it is best to keep the expectant mommas routine as normal as possible throughout her pregnancy.