Natural Puppy Food: Recommended Brands

A dog is only as healthy as the diet you feed it. Feeding your puppy cheap grocery store kibble is the equivalent of feeding your kids a steady diet of fast food take-out. Sad but true.

Although your puppy may gobble up the cheap puppy food, these brands usually include lots of fillers and cheap ingredients. Like a fast food diet for humans, cheap puppy food may fill your puppy up but leave him suffering from a nutritional point of view. You do get what you pay for when it comes to natural puppy food.

So how do you find a good brand of natural puppy food? First, avoid supermarket brands. Go to a pet store or farm outlet such as PetSmart or Buckerfields. Look for a natural puppy food that has no wheat, soybeans, corn, animal fat, poultry fat, by-products, sugar, or artificial preservatives added. High quality natural puppy food brands such as Wellness, Orijen, Innova and Solid Gold are good choices.

What about cooking your own natural puppy food? That's also a good option - as long as the ingredients you use are good quality and your puppy is getting all the protein, iron and other nutrients to meet its special nutritional needs. To be on the safe side, you can mix the human food half and half with a good quality commercial natural puppy food to make sure that your puppy is getting all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients needed for a long and healthy life.

Certain vegetables tend to cause intestinal gas, which is uncomfortable for your puppy and smelly for you! These include broccoli, brussels sprouts, beans, turnip and cabbage. Other foods that can be hard for puppies to digest include cucumbers, onions, peppers, and tomatoes, so they are best avoided as well. And of course, chocolate is dangerous for all dogs to eat so never give your puppy chocolate.

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