[Peggy]

Originally Posted by corgimom

Brought over from the Cardi thread, to keep the Cardi thread on track.

Following Corgimom's lead, I'll bring my repsonse over here too.

Originally Posted by Michael Romanos

Peggy - if puppy food is not required for puppies then there would be no terms called adult food or senior food. You yourself wouldn't be terming food as adult because in your mind adult doesn't exist - it's all dog food.

I call it adult food because that's what it says on the bag and it's the term people are familar with. I'm not the one who came up with the terms or different formulas.

And I still say it's not required. No one can require anyone to feed their dog a certain type of food. Require is being compelled or obligated. I am not compelled or obligated to feed a certian type of food. I am free to choose whatever food I want to feed my dogs.

Up til now and into the immediate future at least there are specific requirements for puppies and for adults and for seniors

There might be neutrient requirements, but an adult food formulated for "all life stages" meets those requirements. So it's fine to feed to dogs of all ages. Even the AAFCO would agree on that.

And it is the same for humans. We are animals too just as are dogs. Human babies through to under sevens ( and very roughly a one year old dog is equivalent to a seven year old child) have different requirements to older children and adults - and most certainly senior citizens have also different requirements.

Seven year olds are not fed different foods at the school lunch. They get the same thing the 11 year olds get.

And in a household most 7 year olds will eat the same dinner as the adults and even Grandma.

So while the nutrition requirements are different they can still be obtained by eating the same foods. It's the same with dogs. They can eat the same food and get the requirements needed.

Now if this weren't working then I would not have so many dogs reach old age. I've had several pass away at the 14 - 16+ age. And IMO the average life span of a corgi is 12-14 years.

And I believe that the canine nutritionists are influencing dog food companies to produce not only the standard puppy and adult varieties of food products, but junior and of course senior formulated food as well.

And I belive the canine nutritionists are influenced by the dog food companies. And influneced way too much.

Again, here in America we do not have a junior formula.

And I''ll throw in these remarks that someone recently made to me and I don't know the validity of them yet. The person who exports dogs to the USA from NZ said it was fashionable at the moment for some dog owners in the USA to ignore puppy food and go straight to adult food for their dogs and that this was a big mistake and quite ridiculous.

That's her opinion. She's entitled to her opinion, and I'm entitled to mine. And I don't think it's redicioulous. It works for me. And it's worked for many other breeders too.

Peggy