anyeone
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I've had several people say to feed the English Mastiff puppy large breed adult food rather than large breed puppy so the dog doesn't grow too fast.
Well, while trying to choose a food I went to dogfoodproject and other sites and started comparing nutrition labels and I noticed for both Eagle Pack (which the breeder uses) and Innova Large Breed, the puppy food has fewer calories per cup than the adult food. So I compared the nutritional content of the two from Innova and for the most part they are very similar, although the puppy food is a bit higher in Vitamins C, E, and K. The biggest difference is the puppy food does not contain glucosamine or chondrotoin. So I am now guessing that the reason that mastiff folks like to feed the adult food is to get those in at a younger age?
Is there some other consideration here I am missing? Because if not then it seems to me the ideal solution is to feed the puppy food and then add a glucosamine / chondrotoin supplement for the joint health if it doesn't cause problems starting it young. (My pup is 4 months old).
Thoughts?
Well, while trying to choose a food I went to dogfoodproject and other sites and started comparing nutrition labels and I noticed for both Eagle Pack (which the breeder uses) and Innova Large Breed, the puppy food has fewer calories per cup than the adult food. So I compared the nutritional content of the two from Innova and for the most part they are very similar, although the puppy food is a bit higher in Vitamins C, E, and K. The biggest difference is the puppy food does not contain glucosamine or chondrotoin. So I am now guessing that the reason that mastiff folks like to feed the adult food is to get those in at a younger age?
Is there some other consideration here I am missing? Because if not then it seems to me the ideal solution is to feed the puppy food and then add a glucosamine / chondrotoin supplement for the joint health if it doesn't cause problems starting it young. (My pup is 4 months old).
Thoughts?