How old is your pup? I have a 12 week old that I fed twice a day when I got her at 6 weeks. About two weeks later after I switched her to a raw diet, she gets fed once a day and looks just fine. That's just me and a 6 week old. If your pup is younger than that, I would just go by how you pup looks and feels. There is no set guideline. If you feed a raw diet, then you have to remember they don't eat 2-3 times a day in the wild, which is what the diet is to resemble.
Hey Walt, Yogi is what? four months old or so now? You can definately go back to twice a day now (even if he tells you otherwise) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Even with the raw, do what works for you. I feed twice a day, with one meal being smaller than the other only because if I skip the meal in the AM I end up with the bile pukes later in the day. After all, my dogs aren't wild....
Plus, if he lives with you... and I am sure he does. Think how he would feel when you are having dinner and he is hungry yet you do not feed him. Anyone who thinks this is not cruel, don't eat for 8 hrs and then sit and watch your family eat your favorite meal.
In the wild they wouldn't eat due to unavailability. Hard for me to tell my pack that when I am scarfind down a cheeseburger.
I should add that if your dog is a kennel dog and doesn't smell you cooking food it is not as bad as a house dog. I do fast the dogs here, but on that day I eat my meals out instead of cooking. Dogs have a better sense of smell than we do... think about it.
I cut the puppy to twice a day at about four months. After that I feed twice a day for life. It is best to feed twice instead of once because dogs can get bloat. The stomach can twist causing death without emergency surgery.
The little Yogi-meister is about 5 and a half months now. He's on 2 meals a day and gets a pound of chicken in the morning and a pound of cow in the evening. He looks good though he thinks he's starving!! He's in his crate from 8 till about 4, then "supervised leave" until about 11.
Walt
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Amhed - in one post you write you have three puppies and in this post you write that you have two puppies. Which is it? Raising more than one pup at the same time when you dont separate the pups is a huge mistake.
I had a belgian malinois which i gave away to my neice for her birthday. She didnt have aplaced set for the little git... but once she did, i gave her the pup!
So now i have two GSD ( brother and sister ) and i have not seperated them yet!
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