A Guide to Grading Your Dog Food
This has been circulating for a while, but I find the results to be fairly accurate, so it’s worth re posting.
It’s a formula designed to help you to ‘grade’ your dog food. Fairly straight forward, and results for most common brands are listed below.
By the way, my raw dog food mix would receive a score of 123!! I’m going to guess that’s an A++ grade.
Frenchie Puppies’ First Meal – Video Version
Such cuties at this age…
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the pups are eating Pets 4 Life Lamb raw dog food. It’s mixed with warm goat milk into the consistency of oatmeal, and then put down for the pups to lap up.
Weaning puppies onto raw is actually quite easy, although I do still feed them one meal per day of kibble. I do this so that they’ll be accustomed to eating it, in case any of their new families prefer not to feed raw. I might change that in the future, however.
Video below the cut.
First Time Puppy Feeding
Introducing puppies to solid food is possibly one of the most hilarious, messy and frustrating aspects of dog breeding.
Some of them, like PB, take one look at the food dish and say “Oh boy, this is the life for me“, and dive in face first.
Other puppies, like Hugo, are curious about the concept, but unsure of the exact method involved.
Princess Vela took one look at the food dish, decided that eating out of it involved the potential for dirty paws, and insisted on being hand fed. We, being her lowly minions, of course complied.
In the midst of all the madness, Po, like his brother PB, calmly got down to the business of eating as much as possible. He was very methodical about it.
The only one unimpressed was Jacques, who reasonably decided that he had a perfectly good buffet on tap in the form of his mother, and that more of his siblings eating solid food equaled more milk time for him. He sniffed the food, but decided it wasn’t up to par. We’ll try again tonight.
More puppy feeding photos here, on Flickr.
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