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Best Dog Foods

June 5, 2019 by Karen Summers

The absolute best dog foods for your dog or puppy is either a WELL-BALANCED raw or homed cooked diet. This page will give information on how to feed these highly nutritious foods.

However, we realize that home cooking is time consuming. Also, even store bought raw food can be somewhat intimidating to some. Others are afraid of not getting a home made diet “right”. Therefore, we have researched dry dog foods extensively in order to make recommendations for those that especially want to feed a dry food.

We Use Dry Dog Food Until Puppies are Four Months

We prefer to feed a balanced raw or home cooked food to dogs and puppies over 4 months. However, we have found a need to start our very young puppies out on dry food rather than raw or home cooked food. Raw or home cooked will not work because of the training we do with our puppies.

About 75% of our puppies’ food comes in the form of treats for training. Because we train so much, we must take the “treats” into account or we would be grossly overfeeding. A balanced or home cooked diet is virtually impossible to feed during training sessions with puppies. Home cooked food tastes better than dry food. If we fed our puppies home cooked or raw food at meal times, they would not be inclined to work for the dry kibble we offer during training sessions. Dry food, for us as trainers, is a necessity. Therefore, we’ve researched dry foods extensively.

Our First Choice is Raw or Home Cooked Food

Still, our first choice, is raw or home cooked. When we keep a puppy past about 4 months, we transition to raw or home cooked when we are able to train with “Jack Pot” rewards instead of using a treat bag full of kibble.

If you are unable to feed a full diet of real food, consider feeding at least a portion of your dog’s food in the form of real food!

Either way, read on. We’ll discuss both how to feed raw or home cooked as well as our favorite dry food.

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How Much to Feed Your Golden Retriever Puppy

June 5, 2019 by Karen Summers

Can I trust the dog food bag? Is my puppy supposed to look thin? How important is it to feed the correct amounts? The question of how much to feed your Golden Retriever puppy is one of the most important questions to have the answer to before bringing a puppy home.

Overfeeding during a puppy’s first 5-6 months of life can impact a puppy for life. It is of utmost importance that you keep your puppy growing slowly.

how much to feed your golden retriever puppy
At 4 months, Golden Retriever puppies should look lanky
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Is Grain Free or Expensive Dog Food Worth It?

June 5, 2019 by Karen Summers

Expensive Food

Price is not always the best indicator of dog food quality. It is true that the best foods ARE going to be fairly expensive. High quality foods are expensive to make. However, it is not true that all expensive foods are high quality.

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How to Feed Your Golden Retriever

June 3, 2019 by Karen Summers

This page contains tips on how to feed your Golden Retriever so that as puppies they grow properly and as adults they stay in optimal condition.

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How Much to Feed Your Golden Retriever

June 3, 2019 by Karen Summers

This page has guidelines and a chart with information on how much to feed a Golden Retriever. There is also info on how to keep your puppy and your adult at his or her optimum weight. Scroll down to find growth charts to make sure your puppy is growing at the proper rate and is within the right weight range for his age. If you are looking for information on what to feed, go to How to Choose a Dog Food.

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How to Choose a Dog Food

June 3, 2019 by Karen Summers

How to choose dog foods? It can seem very complicated but we’ve broken it down to make it easy. Below is a list of criteria that we consider when deciding on whether or not we will feed a particular food.  The first 5 are criteria that are must-haves in a food.  The last 15 or 20 criteria are personal preferences and what I look for in deciding if I want to recommend a particular food.

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