Best Kinds of Puppy Food Formulations
If you are looking for the best natural puppy food, it will help you a lot if you understand the various kinds of puppy food formulations. This knowledge will go a long way in helping you make the best choices for your puppy’s health.
Basically puppy food falls into three main categories: 1) dry, 2) wet and 3) semi-moist. Let’s take a closer look at each of these three types of puppy food.
As suggested by the name, dry dog food has significantly low moisture content, roughly well under 15%. On the contrary, wet dog food (canned) contains much more moisture than kibble (with a typical moisture content of 65-75%) and is usually more visually inviting than kibble – to the human eye, anyway.
It may amaze you that how their food looks matter not at all to dogs. What is most important to them is the taste and the smell.
But most dogs seem to consider canned food the ultimate in tastiness, after “people food,” anyway. Semi-moist dog food typically is sold in pouches or bags, includes a fair amount of moisture (25 to 35%) and generally is gobbled up by dogs.
But when it comes to choosing among the three types of puppy food formulation (dry, wet and semi-moist), both dry puppy food (kibble) and wet puppy food (cans or tins) are the best choices for your puppy. With semi-moist the same cannot be said though.
Even though many dogs like it, unfortunately, most semi-moist dog foods are jam-packed with artificial chemicals, dyes and other additives which are necessary in creating that “half-way between dry and wet” texture of semi-moist puppy food. And for this reason I would recommend against feeding this to your dog.
Try to avoid the cheapest, highly discounted puppy foods. You got to wonder why they are priced that way and that surely does not sound good. The cheapest deal for sure will not provide you with the best natural puppy food.
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