Thread: New Puppy with feeding questions...

We recently acquired our first Frenchie. We've always had Golden Retrievers before this and want to be the best Frenchie owners we can be.

The breeder fed the puppy Orijen puppy food. We fed our puppy Orijen. When our puppy was on Orijen, we had to add sweet potatoes to her food because of loose stools. The sweet potato helped a lot. Then we recently transitioned over to Primal Raw Frozen Venison formula. She seems to like it and her stools have improved. Being used to feeding Goldens, we don't seem to have a grasp on what a reasonable amount of food to feed is. Our puppy is almost 5 months old and she is about 19 lbs. The vet says that her weight is correct for her build. Primal recommends that we feed her 8 - 1 oz nuggets twice a day. A pound of food every day seems a lot to me.

I have seen that many of the forum members like Fromm's Puppy Gold formula. I was leaning towards a raw diet but if the Fromm's is a better food choice for our puppy, I'll gladly transition over.

I'm open to any advice/suggestions on food recommedations and quantity recommendations. I want to be sure that I do my best to feed our puppy the highest quality foods that will hopefully help avoid allergies. Also, I read, on this forum, that Frenchies can develop protein allergies if you don't change their protein on a regular basis. How often should I change up her protein?

Finally, I know that I just need to keep an eye on her weight and that should give me a sense of the amount of food to feed her but are there any thoughts on when I should start reducing the amount of food fed, since she's a puppy to the amount I should feed her as she matures. Also, should I reduce the amount of food that she's fed, after she's spayed?

Sorry for all the questions, but we just want to do the best for her.

Thanks everyone!