How long to feed puppy food.

[TheresaW]

Luna is coming up to 5 months now. She is fed Wainwrights lamb and rice puppy food. On the bag it says to feed until she is 18 months. We have no problems feeding it to her until then, but can only get it in silly little bags, whereas adult food comes in big sacks.

Realistically, when do most of you change from puppy food to adult food?

 

[Clodagh]

I don't feed puppy food at all, so there you go! When I used to it would be for no longer than 6 months. If you look at the ingredients for the pup and the adult food they are probably the same, just puppy food is smaller kibble usually. Luna is not going to be a tiny little flower so I am sure she can cope with big biccies.

 

[TheresaW]

Thank you. I think when I go and get her food today, I’ll get a bag of puppy and a bag of grown up and mix them together over the next week or so. She still mostly has baby teeth, but seems to have no problem eating Aleds on the odd occasion he leaves a tiny amount.

 

[Chiffy]

I agree with Clodagh, I am surprised it says 18 months, most say a year. I am feeding Sonnet, flatcoat puppy , puppy food but plan to start changing her over in a couple of weeks when she is six months and I have used up my current supply. Puppy food is ridiculously small for the larger breeds .

 

[TheresaW]

Thank you.

 

[honetpot]

I use this website, they deliver within 3 days usually and sell large bags, including puppy and cat food. They do not stock Wainrights but they have a good selection, and they are a good price.http://www.bitiba.co.uk/shop/dogs/dry_dog_food

 

[AandK]

I don't feed puppy food at all, so there you go! When I used to it would be for no longer than 6 months. If you look at the ingredients for the pup and the adult food they are probably the same, just puppy food is smaller kibble usually. Luna is not going to be a tiny little flower so I am sure she can cope with big biccies.

This. We have a 4.5 month lab, and when his bag of puppy food is gone (half way through a 12kg bag), I will get him the adult version, the kibble is so tiny for him already.

 

[Shady]

You have the lovely Husky pup yes? it's probably good that you want to change food as personally i wouldn't keep her on that one anyway, the calcium content is too high for a large breed dog, you want her to develop slowly, and the kibble is too small for your size pup. Their large breed puppy one looks good tho and it comes in 15k bags .

 

[TheresaW]

Thank you, and yes, she is the husky. I will get some of the large breed tonight.

 

[RunToEarth]

You can buy larger bag puppy food from Wainwrights because I bought 15kg bags recently. I had planned to keep the pup on that for a while longer, but she eats her mum's food when I'm not looking.

 

[splashgirl45]

i have a very small terrier and i changed him from puppy food to the same make and flavour adult small breed food when he was almost 6 months..no problems at all

 

[TGM]

Following advice on here I changed my whippet pup over to a high quality adult kibble at four months, she has done very well on it.

 

[Moobli]

I usually feed pups on puppy specific food until around six months of age but in my experience they try to snaffle adult food as much as they can.

 

[Annette4]

Any new puppies we may or may not get will go straight onto Millies Wolfheart, no puppy food

 

[PapaverFollis]

The feed manufacturers that make puppy food advise you stay on it until the dog has finished growing. 6 no the for small dogs, a year for medium dogs and 18 months for large dogs. They say things about nutrient levels to back it up. Whether it is true or not, who knows. Doubt there's much conclusive research either way but I've never looked for it. Of course it is worth noting that puppy food is more expensive and probably turns them a bigger profit.

 

[TheresaW]

It certainly is a minefield. Last time I had a puppy, or a kitten for that matter, it was cat food and dog food full stop!

 

[JennBags]

Any new puppies we may or may not get will go straight onto Millies Wolfheart, no puppy food

This is what we did with Woolfie, her tummy wasn't great on the puppy food that she came with, so we changed her to MWH quite quickly .

 

[Cinnamontoast]

I spent a long time scrutinising labels in Pets at Home and the only difference between adult and puppy was one per cent protein. Puppy food seems to me to be a marketing myth. We didn't have this stuff 20 years ago, dogs all got the same, either commercial food or scraps. I weaned the last pup straight onto adult food. There's something about phosphorus levels, but this generally isn't labelled.