|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
06-14-2013, 05:02 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2013 Location: Mount Airy, Md. USA
Posts: 75
| What to feed a puppy! Will be getting my pup first week in July! Reading real bad things about commercial dog food and what they use (dead dogs and cats) to make it! Yes real eye opener! So what to feed? Raw, make my own or is there a good brand that doesn't use what I mentioned above? Thank you in advance for your replays Daddy & Tucker |
Welcome Guest! | |
06-14-2013, 05:44 PM | #2 |
Don't Litter Spay&Neuter Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal
Posts: 9,874
| Congrats on your new puppy! There are numerous threads in the Health & Diet section about good foods going on right now. How old will the pup be? It's best to feed the puppy the same food the breeder was feeding to avoid any tummy upsets & not to add any additional stress. Avoid foods/ ingredients like: meat & bone meal, animal or poultry digest, animal or poultry fat, natural flavors, fish oil, anything that doesn't name a specific meat or animal. They can come from rendered 4D meat's: Dead, Dying, Diseased & Disabled.
__________________ |
06-14-2013, 06:45 PM | #3 | |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | Quote:
__________________ Teri . . . Galen Jameson Frazier Seraphina Luna Rosencrantz, Saber Tooth Tiger, Pussy Willow Pandora Guildenstern | |
06-14-2013, 07:17 PM | #4 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| For the first month at least they need to stay on what the breeder is feeding them. There are good brands of dog food. Raw is not good for puppies because there systems are not ready for it and it can make them sick. Home cooking is ok but you need to talk to a vet nutritionist because not doing a balanced for dogs recipe and not using supplements can do more damage to your dog then you think.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
06-15-2013, 03:12 AM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2013 Location: Mount Airy, Md. USA
Posts: 75
| He'll be 11 weeks when I pick him up. She's feeding him Purina puppy chow moistened. |
06-15-2013, 04:51 AM | #6 | |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Urbana, IL USA
Posts: 3,648
| Quote:
| |
06-15-2013, 04:55 AM | #7 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 646
| As bad as Puppy Chow is, I would stick with it for at least a couple of weeks. Give your baby time to adjust to his new home before changing his food. I made the mistake of trying to switch Sam too soon after I brought him home. It took me 3 months of trial, error, and repeated trips to the store to return bags of food that he wouldn't eat.
__________________ All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. - JRR Tolkien |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart