If it's a puppy's golden retriever, you can soak the dog food and feed it soft. Golden retriever dogs can start eating dog food when they are weaned at full moon. However, if you want to give your dog baby dog food, you can give your dog full-price dog food, which is balanced in nutrition and suitable for the growth of puppies. At the beginning, soak the dry dog food in water or goat milk powder before giving it to the golden retriever. How to make puppy dog food?

The method of soaking dog food is as follows:

Water temperature: 40-70 degrees, but the water must be boiled before cooling (to avoid the loss of nutrients in dog food caused by boiling water, hot water is easy to burn golden retrievers).

Water quantity: dog food can be absorbed just right, so that the soaked dog food can absorb all the water, so that it is not necessary to pour out the excess water and lose some nutrients.

Time: soak until the dog food is released (soaked soft); The solubility of each dog food is different, so the soaking time will be different. Usually, warm water of about 60 degrees for 20 minutes is enough. At this time, the water temperature is about 30 degrees, and the trial feeding is just right.

Reasons for soaking dog food:

Because the baby dog's stomach is soft, and the baby dog eats the mother's milk during lactation, the stomach can't accept too hard food at once. It is necessary to make puppies adapt to this method of soaking dog food to avoid common problems such as diarrhea, vomiting and indigestion.

How old is a golden retriever who doesn't have to eat dog food?

Generally, golden retrievers can eat hard dog food if they have teeth. Small dogs don't need to soak for about 2 months; Medium-sized and large dogs generally don't have to soak so soft after 3 months, and it is completely hard dog food after 4 months; In addition, it is not excluded that individual golden retrievers will stop eating soft dog food for a longer time because of the difference of dog breeds.

Precautions:

Since two months, golden retriever dogs have been given dry dog food and avoid soft food. Be sure to ensure the calcium intake of golden retriever dogs during tooth replacement! Daily eating habits also have an effect on the teeth of golden retrievers. Generally speaking, dry dog food is better than wet dog food and canned food, and dry food is harder. When golden retriever chews dry food, it can scrape the surface of teeth by the way, which can prevent the occurrence of oral diseases such as bad breath and periodontitis in golden retriever, while wet dog food does not have this function, and it is easy to accumulate tartar on teeth.