Feeding Question

[JoeMacBoxer]

So we feed our 9 week old boxer puppy Duke right next to Laydee, our adult Cavailer King Charles Spaniel. We are feeding Duke puppy food and Laydee Adult food. Well for the first week or so Duke was eating his puppy food fine...now all of a sudden he eats all of Laydees food and doesnt touch his puppy food unless thats all he has.

My question is, is it ok for the little puppy to be eating adult food, or should we make him stick with the puppy food?

 

[gmacleod]

It really depends on the food Many adult foods are perfectly well suited to puppies. A few aren't.

Another option for you is to get an all-life-stages food (e.g. Canidae) that you can feed to both of them. In case you wonder, the difference between foods labelled for all-life-stages and those labelled only for a particular age is that the former goes through twice as much trialling So if you put faith in feeding trials, you'd take the all-life-stages food as the superior product every time.

 

[javapup]

The articles and past posts on this site should provide you with some answers, but from what I've researched I believe it is fine to feed adult food to puppies. Just make sure you look at the protein content, etc. Have a look at:

http://www.boxerworld.com/forums/view_choosing-a-good-kibble-dry-dog-food.htm

and

http://www.boxerworld.com/forums/view_feeding-your-puppy.htm