Like all of us, I'm trying to feed my puppy as healthy as the current situation permits hoping that he gets a good start in life but I'm also trying to do this slowly so that he gets the chance to adapt to the new foods and hopefully develops a taste for the new stuff.
I'm beginning to experience some frustration in the process for several reasons -
1)
He's currently on Wellness puppy kibble and canned. He loves the canned and can actually eat it but I'm a bit frustrated with the kibble. :angry: He's so little still so I bet he's not devouring it since it's probably hard for him to chew on it so what I do is either wet it with a few tbs water or try to grind it by hand, which is not very practical at this time. - He still doesn't really like it b/c the ground one is still probably too big and the wet one a) takes a lot to soften up and b) doubles in size, defeating the purpose.
My questions are -
- Why is puppy kibble NOT small enough for a puppy??
- Is it bad if I take him off this stuff completely and just do the wellness canned?
2)
I'm very interested in Home Cooking for him but since he's still so little and I don't want to unintentionally mess up and have him miss out on any essential nutrients, I figure that for now I better stick with a good quality, balanced commercial puppy food. However, as some posters on here suggested - which I thought was a brilliant idea since it's healthy and convenient - I could do the kibble + organic baby food for meats. The problem is that I've searched far and wide, and can't seem to find the organic baby meats - veggies yes, meats no. I can't believe it, I've been to 3 whole foods and a few other "health" stores and nothing. I used to feed my daughter Earth's Best veggies and meats but this was about 6/7 years ago - do they not make them anymore? The only just meats I found were in the Gerber/Beechnut ones but then they are not organic. :smpullhair:
This is beginning to seem a bit complicated....
Thanks for listening -
I'm beginning to experience some frustration in the process for several reasons -
1)
He's currently on Wellness puppy kibble and canned. He loves the canned and can actually eat it but I'm a bit frustrated with the kibble. :angry: He's so little still so I bet he's not devouring it since it's probably hard for him to chew on it so what I do is either wet it with a few tbs water or try to grind it by hand, which is not very practical at this time. - He still doesn't really like it b/c the ground one is still probably too big and the wet one a) takes a lot to soften up and b) doubles in size, defeating the purpose.
My questions are -
- Why is puppy kibble NOT small enough for a puppy??
- Is it bad if I take him off this stuff completely and just do the wellness canned?
2)
I'm very interested in Home Cooking for him but since he's still so little and I don't want to unintentionally mess up and have him miss out on any essential nutrients, I figure that for now I better stick with a good quality, balanced commercial puppy food. However, as some posters on here suggested - which I thought was a brilliant idea since it's healthy and convenient - I could do the kibble + organic baby food for meats. The problem is that I've searched far and wide, and can't seem to find the organic baby meats - veggies yes, meats no. I can't believe it, I've been to 3 whole foods and a few other "health" stores and nothing. I used to feed my daughter Earth's Best veggies and meats but this was about 6/7 years ago - do they not make them anymore? The only just meats I found were in the Gerber/Beechnut ones but then they are not organic. :smpullhair:
This is beginning to seem a bit complicated....
Thanks for listening -
