Maccley 0 Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Hi. Just coming back to lurchers after 8-10 years and I have a 12 week old male coming home next week. Problem being I have only worked adults in the past so could do with some advice on feeding and training at a young age. Planning on dry food only and many moons ago used mainly james wellbeloved or eukanuba. Whats the recommendation these days? Am wary as adults dogs tended to eat anything that sat still for longer than 2 seconds and dont want to over (or under) feed from day one. Any infromation or advice will be gratefully received. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
riohog 5,938 Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Hi. Just coming back to lurchers after 8-10 years and I have a 12 week old male coming home next week. Problem being I have only worked adults in the past so could do with some advice on feeding and training at a young age. Planning on dry food only and many moons ago used mainly james wellbeloved or eukanuba. Whats the recommendation these days? Am wary as adults dogs tended to eat anything that sat still for longer than 2 seconds and dont want to over (or under) feed from day one. Any infromation or advice will be gratefully received. beta greyhound as good as any dry food Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest anonymous Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Hi. Just coming back to lurchers after 8-10 years and I have a 12 week old male coming home next week. Problem being I have only worked adults in the past so could do with some advice on feeding and training at a young age. Planning on dry food only and many moons ago used mainly james wellbeloved or eukanuba. Whats the recommendation these days? Am wary as adults dogs tended to eat anything that sat still for longer than 2 seconds and dont want to over (or under) feed from day one. Any infromation or advice will be gratefully received. If you've never had a pup before, feeding it is going to be the least of your worries... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wild rover 548 Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Hi. Just coming back to lurchers after 8-10 years and I have a 12 week old male coming home next week. Problem being I have only worked adults in the past so could do with some advice on feeding and training at a young age. Planning on dry food only and many moons ago used mainly james wellbeloved or eukanuba. Whats the recommendation these days? Am wary as adults dogs tended to eat anything that sat still for longer than 2 seconds and dont want to over (or under) feed from day one. Any infromation or advice will be gratefully received. Try a decent dry feed (try 24% protein ) supplemented with meat tripe or shin beef and cooked veg, 3 times a day and a snack of feed and milk. Fresh marrow bones twice a week. At 6-8 month reduce to two feeds daily. If a few dogs . boil 6 rabbits to mush add veg and dog biscuit. Start training as soon as you get it, in the garden, sit, down, stay and retrieve get it doing this and socialise it with other dogs, kids, crowds, traffic , stock break , keep up and develop all training. Look in search for starting a lamping pup, read it and try it. good luck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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