What is the best puppy and dog food for giant breeds?
Monday, February 8th, 2010 at
2:07 pm
What is the best puppy food and dog food for a giant dog breed?
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Many vets and specialists do not recommend feeding a large breed formula to any dog at any age, especially to a puppy. It is too much protein and not enough fat for them, and it can make a puppy grow too fast, resulting in bone and joint problems.
Anyway, there are some great puppy and adult formulas, along with some all life stages formulas, but you will not find any of them at your local grocery store. You will have to do some online shopping or go to your local pet stores and animal feed stores to find them and compare prices.
I feed my dog Taste of the Wild High Prairie, which is an all life stages formula. It is grain free, and is one of the best commercial foods on the market. It isn’t too high in protein, so it can be fed to puppies. Most other grain free foods should not be fed to puppies, because of higher protein levels. Another all life stages food is Canadie.
Other great brands include Merrick, Blue Buffalo, California Naturals, Innova, and Wellness. They make puppy and adult formulas. You should feed a puppy formula until the pup is a year old.
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for discusting pet food, Nutro Natural Choice is the best you can find in pet stores. Evo and Solid Gold is pretty good too
Natural Balance Ultra Premium Puppy through Adult - won’t encourage over-fast growth.
Although - I primarily raw feed.
Hands down NUTRO NATURAL CHOICE LARGE BREED
I feed my big and small dogs Nutro because it’s very healthy. Plus they eat a lot less because it’s got more in it. You are going to spend a little more. It’s about $40 for a 30# bag. However, you’ll spend less in the long run because they eat less.
I have a Great Dane that eats 4 cups a day THAT’s it, and she weighs in at over 100 lbs. Went to the vet not too long ago and she said I have the healthiest dogs she’s seen in a very long time.
It also smells good.
They like mice and small rabbits.