Welcome, and congratulations on your new puppy
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While I think about it - you are planning a quiet Christmas, I hope? It can be a really difficult time for pups with all the excitement and upheaval, strange noisy drunk people turning up (OK, that is making an unfair assumption about your friends
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), a big tree just crying out to be peed on, food
everywhere and the dangers of unguarded chocolates, Xmas cake, pudding, mince pies, tinsel, all of which could make him ill if he ate them - to say nothing of new slippers and so on that are bound to get chewed. For most new pup owners, it's difficult enough keeping them apart from things they shouldn't eat & chew at the best of times. I'd even worry about a breeder who planned a litter that would be ready to move on so close to Christmas.
OK, lecture over - you may already have thought all that through!
The Natural Instinct does look better than Nature's Menu, as the latter contains rice. I certainly wouldn't change his diet for the first couple of weeks after he arrives anyway. This will also help you assess what is normal for him in terms of poo regularity & consistency. But Nature's Menu is certainly still an excellent food.
I would start thinking about how you can feed him on a more 'home made' raw diet. It will work out a lot cheaper and you can also introduce bones which will be great for his teeth. It is daunting at the start (I put off changing to raw for months, thinking it would be difficult), but once you've got your head round it it's very simple. I just fish one chicken carcasse & one tub of assorted mince out the freezer each morning and we're good to go
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There's a long thread on raw feeding here, but it may be a bit of information overload to start with:
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Nature's Menu supply all the 'DIY' ingredients for raw feeding. MVM are good too. I use this company:
http://www.nurturingbynature.co.uk/default.asp (It's local to me but they deliver all over the country) and their quality is fantastic.
I hope some of the above helps - if you want to know more about DIY raw feeding then ask away and we can give you more details
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