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Originally Posted by Chip's Mom
Thanks Deb for your reply. I do know that Chip was fed puppy food until he was about 8 or 9 months old and Dale was only fed puppy food for the first couple of months and they are both doing fine. I did give Dale extra vitamins though and that was where my concern was - I gave him those every day for two or three months and still do every once in awhile for a treat type thing. I work in clinical trials and like to read the findings. It would also be interesting to know which brand of dog food they fed.
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Bonnie,
When I got my first corgi back in 1980, that breeder who had one of the top Pembroke kennels in the US (she's passed on now) told me then to switch my puppy to an adult food at 4 mos. So even back then I was taught that puppy food was not needed for the entire first year of puppyhood.
And this breeder had more experience in dogs (not just corgis she'd also had GSDs, and collies before corgis) than I will ever had. Her years and numbers of dogs probably rivals several of us put together.
And we are talking feeding a *preimum* adult food, not the run of the mill grocery store brand or generic stuff.
Peggy