Trying to determine the best brand of puppy food is as impossible as trying to find out the best brand of clothes or shoes etc. What is the best brand for your friend, or the dog down the street, may not necessarily be the best brand of puppy food for you and your dog.
Obviously the best brand of puppy food will be one that has been specifically manufactured for puppies. We know that puppies need a great deal more nutrition in their diet, just like children do, and if a type of food has been made with that in mind, then it will surely be perfect to feed your puppies.
You need to remember that once you get your puppy accustomed to one particular type or brand of food, for example, wet or dry, it may be difficult to change that option later on. Say for example, you decide you want to change from wet food to dry food; it may cause your dog to have stomach upsets when you first initially change the diet, or it may not eat it at all. You need to make sure that the decision you make you will stick with, so it may be worth feeding your puppy a mixture of wet and dry food.
Different brands offer different qualities. Obviously you expect to pay a little bit more for a better quality brand. By better quality, I mean that it has more meat and “real food” ingredients, and less in the way of additives and preservatives and cheap fillers such as corn. Puppies have different requirements, so adult dog food filled with the above would not be suitable food if you want your puppy to grow up strong and healthy. Puppies need more protein and more calcium to help establish good bones and teeth. Some puppy foods can be over-fortified with different minerals and vitamins, and you may expect this to be healthy for your puppy, but in actual fact, too many of these can also do more harm than good.
The best brand of puppy food would be one that is well established and older than some of the newer brands available today. The older ones that have been tried and tested by many still come out on top in many surveys and they include Purina, Iams and Carnation. They all provide specific food products for puppies and are not too expensive, so to set your puppy up for the rest of its life, you may want to decide to use a mixture of both wet and dry foods from one of these brands.
In many cases, the best brand of puppy food can only really be decided by you and your puppy. You need to buy the brand that your puppy enjoys eating and also that you can afford. There are plenty of websites that give advice on this topic, and you may want to research different brands, and check out the ingredient lists on the packaging before you make a final decision.
