Puppy or adult

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  1. Somatic

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    when does Arnie stop being a puppy and becomes an adult?

    I am asking this in order to do my ratios for his raw feeding program. As a puppy I should feed 3-5 percent of expected adult weight. At 1 year and 1 month he clocked 37 on the scale. He still looks lean, albeit probably as big as I want him to be. That equates to just over one kilogram of food per day.

    Once he goes to adult he will be eating less, calculated at 2percent. So when do I make that change? When do I consider him adult. Btw, he's a big boy.
     
  2. Emily

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    When does he start acting like an adult? Who knows! ;):D

    We switched Ella from puppy to adult kibble at about 15 months. The food recommend this age and we started to notice that she was putting on weight faster (the puppy version of her food had a higher fat content).
     
  3. Boogie

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    Guide Dogs move them to adult food at 15 months old :)


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  4. Snowshoe

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    Monitor his weight and appearance and decide from that.
     

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