puppy to junior

[cazza]

Personal opinion here 

 Dog food is all about profit for the maufactuer

Years ago dogs were just fed scraps these days all the dog food manufactuers want you to buy puppy food which is an arm and a leg and some have Junior food to make you buy a more expensive food than the adult food before you move on to adult food

I have fed puppy food (don't get me wrong) but I have avoided the junior food

as for age of changing from puppy to adult food - manufatuers want you to stay on the puppy food for a year or more as it is more profit for them but all mine get changed to adult food around 6 months of age.

I would do what you want to do and only YOU can make the decision when to change from puppy food to either junior or adult

good luck with your decision

[siam]

I waited until 12months before putting Alfie onto adult food. When I went to exchange a bag of puppy food I had left over for an adult one I was told I could, but that he would still be fine on the puppy food as there was more goodness in it than the adult food.

As far as I understand it, there is more protein in puppy and junior food to help with their growth so it would probably make your dog fat if you continued to feed when grown  

I agree, I think the implication was that it would be OK to continue with the extra bag I had left, it wouldn't do him any harm shorterm, but obviously best to switch to adult food then (which I have done now!)

[bracken]

I've been told to put on adult at 12 months - whats with the 6 months, surely they're a puppy still 

Must admit Jeanette.... Lace will be on Pro Plan puppy until she is 12 months but the others were on JWB and I did change them over at 7 months to adult.

[Nicola]

They've done most of their growing by that stage which is why I change mine, once they've almost reached their adult size (height wise) and their rate of growth has slowed down I'd rather have them on adult food so they can fill out and build up muscle at a steadier rate.

[Sharon]

My pups are raised on RC Starter, then around 7 weeks go onto Junior which they stay on until 12 months of age, if they start putting too much weight on around 10 months (ish) then I tell them to get them onto the adult food.

[Geordietyke]

I weighed up the pros and cons (after consulting COL) and decided to change Odie over to adult food at around 6 months.  This was mainly because his system (ie his poos ) were never nice and solid on the 2 kinds of puppy food I tried.  Problem solved when I moved to his adult food, he enjoys it, has great motions and weight and height wise is fine.  It is down to your own personal choice though!  Lesley