Growing Puggle Puppy
Plinko has been growing so fast! She eats like a horse, so no wonder she’s growing! The food bag recommends feeding a dog her age and size about 2 cups a day. A DAY!? Are they kidding me? She can eat that much in one meal! She went through a small bag of dry puppy food in two weeks, that seems quick to me. It seems, especially the past few days, that she is hungry almost all the time.
A few weeks ago we switched her food. We went to an all natural food, no additives, no sugar or fillers. There are quite a few of these to choose from, they are in the high end dog food isle. The pros of going this route include less hyperness because there is less (or no) sugar in the food, less pooping (because there are no fillers so they digest the food easier and more of it stays in them) and, because they poop less, they are less hungry which means they eat less. Well, I’m waiting for that last one!
Today I put her back on 3 meals, I was only feeding her in the morning and then again around 4. Today I gave her half her normal breakfast, then fed her the other half in the early afternoon and a then her dinner around 6. She also gets biscuits in between, plus all the training treats she’s getting right now. The last few days, every time I turn around she’s in the laundry room scratching and clawing at her bag of food, trying to get into it! She bangs her empty food bowl around too when she wants more. My husband thinks it’s a growth spurt, just like kids have. I guess it could be, it just seems like she’s eating so much. I definitely don’t want to over feed her, I don’t want to end up with a porky Plinko!
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