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Home Pets Dogs My dog is 9 months old. When can I stop feeding her puppy food and feed her adult dog food
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My dog is 9 months old. When can I stop feeding her puppy food and feed her adult dog food

between now and 1 year old depending how close she is to full growth

ie measure her shoulder heigth and compare to breedstandard

then look at her knees puppies have distinct knuckle look on their front legs when they aint fully grown

if that knee look is almost gone and the dog is almost full size for its breed, then you can start considering phasing over to adult food

if not then not 9-12 months the general area, but a slow developed dog that obviously have more growth will need to continue puppy food so as to get the nutritient they need as growing to develop a good bone build
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Cadsuane
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i would give her another month on puppy food then slowly start to add a handful of your chosen adult food and taking out the puppy food, if you do a handful at a time and leave it two days before increasing any more then your puppy won't get an upset stomach, the key is to slowly change the food over

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fruitcak...
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Depends on her breed and build- if she is a large breed, you could start trading her over now or soon - if she is a small to medium breed thta does not experience orthopedic problems, I would give her until at least her first birthday.

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Rosalie
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You could switch now just switch slowly

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