Cardi extinction

[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. Up til now and into the immediate future at least there are specific requirements for puppies and for adults and for seniors - and most of the legitimate dog food companies cater for the general needs of each of these age groups. I doubt if there will ever be a truly successful dog food produced that can go across the spectrum from go to whoa. It is really a simple matter of generalising what are the specific requirements for puppies and what are the specific requirements for adults and seniors to understand there are differences. 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. 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''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.

[corgimom]

Peggy,

I commented to Michaels last post here but put it in the "when should you switch" thread since this thread is about Cardigans. Just thought I would mention that so you can read and then post there. Here is the link, but it should be on the side.

http://www.gocorgi.com/forums/diet-n...dult-food.html