What Your Puppy Eats
For the first 3 weeks, your puppy had a very attentive mother, who provided all the nutrition he needed. From the age of 3 weeks to 8 weeks, your puppy has been fed a nutritious, home-cooked diet. He would be very happy to continue eating this food at his new home.
Fresh food is far better for you than processed food, as all the nutritional experts tell us. Yes, and fresh food is far better for your puppy than processed dog food.
· At 3 weeks your puppy was fed a mush of equal parts cooked oatmeal, cottage cheese and hamburger, with raw eggs and their shells – all processed in the blender. Mom was still nursing them a few times a day.
· At 4 to 5 weeks, the blended food was more solid and made up 1/4 cooked oatmeal, 1/2 raw beef heart, ¼ cottage cheese, and raw eggs with shells. A sprinkle of “Call of the Wild”, a calcium and pro-biotic supplement was added.
· At 6 to 8 weeks, your puppy ate the same homemade vegetable mix his parents eat, with generous servings of raw meat, including raw chicken bones, which he can devour entirely -- they’re a great source of calcium and essential minerals. A sprinkle of “Call of the Wild”, a calcium and pro-biotic supplement was added.
· As he grows, he will also love to have raw beef bones to chew on (rather than your shoes and furniture).
What you choose to feed your puppy is up to you. I would love to persuade you of the importance of a fresh food diet for your puppy’s growth and development and for his health throughout his life. Dogs fed on fresh food, raw meat, and raw bones stay healthier and are much less likely to develop cancers that are plaguing so many dogs fed on kibbles. Even their teeth stay clean!
No matter what anyone says, kibble or canned dog food cannot replace fresh, nutritious food for your puppy, just as dry, processed food could not replace fresh food for you and your children. For more information see www.wysong.net.
Attached is a recipe I use for my dogs. I prepare dog food every 10 days for 7 adult dogs. If you have one dog and a freezer, you do not have to cook very often. I hope you will give it a try.