What to feed my Pomeranian puppy dog?
You should be feeding him the food he was on before you bought him. It’s stressful for a puppy to come out of his familiar environment which could well upset his tummy, without switching his diet abruptly. If, over time, you are not happy with how he’s developing, by all means change his diet, but for now, feed him what he’s used to. Biting, mouthing, is natural for a young puppy. When he does this, yelp, as his litter mates would. And tell him No Biting! Also give him one of his toys so he gets to know what he can bite!!
I have lost all confidence in the commercial dog food industry since the melamine contamination; I’ve switched my dog to her species’ natural diet: raw meat on the bones. I feed raw/prey model; my 50-pound shar-pei mix gets about 12oz a day, but when I have a gorge meal for her, like a turkey carcass that will take her 4-5 hours to eat, she won’t be hungry or interested in food for 2-3 days. In general, a dog is fed 2-3% of the ideal body weight each day. A puppy gets 2-3% of the ideal anticipated adult weight each day, divided into 4 meals. The ideal diet should consist of approximately 80% raw meat, 10% raw edible bone, 5% raw liver, 5% other raw organs, the occasional egg, shell and all, raw. Puppies start off with chicken breast, since it has the most accessible edible bone. NO veggies, NO fruit. Dogs cannot digest vegetables or fruits; they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. Look at cows: they have the enzyme, and they still need four stomachs and they have to eat
