What else can puppies eat besides dog food

Pet     8:33am, 13 September 2025

In addition to eating dog food, puppies can also eat some complementary food. However, the selection of complementary foods should be determined based on the age of the puppy and cannot be fed casually. For example, feeding puppies under three months old canned meat and canned fruits will cause stomach discomfort and diarrhea. Therefore, when choosing complementary foods, pet owners must pay attention to the following aspects.

1. After weaning, the puppies that eat dog food for the first time can be properly fed with dog food, in addition to eating dog food as the mainstay, they can also reasonably increase some fruits and vegetables to fill in rich vitamins and methyl cellulose, assist in maintaining growth and development, and prevent dry stools. In addition, pet owners can also prepare some milk cakes for their puppies in advance, or feed them with milk powder to fill in the nutrients needed for growth and development. There is also some things that when feeding dog food ingredients to puppies for the first time, you also need to pay special attention to soaking the dog food in milk powder before feeding it, which can relieve the stress state provided by the first meal of dog food.

2. Puppies in the skeletal development stage

3-6 months old puppies are in the stage of rapid growth and development of human bones. Therefore, not only should we choose dog food suitable for digestion and absorption of puppies, but we should also pay attention to calcium intake. Pet owners can choose colorful ingredients such as shrimp skin, seaweed, beef, mutton and soy products to feed them, and appropriately add some calcium carbonate for this dog to help puppies maintain normal calcium levels, so that puppies can grow and develop healthily and grow healthily.

3. Pay attention to effective food exchange

When changing food to puppies or adding new types of complementary food, pets should pay special attention to effectively dismantling the ingredients, from shallow to deep. When replacing dog food, the seven-day food exchange method should be used. The new type of complementary food prepared in advance can be appropriately increased and fed into old dog food to reduce the stimulation to the gastrointestinal tract. If the puppies may experience a stress state such as diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, then they need to feed some Wang Yizhi to help stabilize enteric bacteria and relieve diarrhea.