PinkDragon14 (07-26-2015)
I would not give a regular, single bully stick to a young puppy but the large, braided ones are not something I ever worried about. Considering many Petsmart employees recommend Blue Buffalo as the best food available I personally would take their advice with a grain of salt, lol. Like I said, I bought one of the fat, braided ones for Maxx the week I brought him home and it lasted months, until he was done teething. Of course you always want to supervise chewing of any item they may possibly bite a piece off of.
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I would second the comments that maybe you should feed a bit more. I know that when our pup was that young, our vet told us to not worry as much about sticking to food guidelines and that if he seemed starving, give him some more food. With a rapidly growing puppy no one, and definitely not a bag of dry food, can properly tell you the amount to feed your dog. We fed him 1 pretty heaping cup 3 times a day at that age.
It also sounds like you might be feeding him too late? I would say feed him his dinner earlier in the evening. I know a lot of people don't feed past 5, that doesn't work for us but we do more like 6-7. If you think he'll get hungry at night, give him a spoonful of plain yogurt before he goes to bed. That should help with him getting up at night!
A bedtime snack is a great idea. I still give one to both dogs, Maxx will throw up bile about 5 AM if he doesn't get a snack before bed.
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I don't think we'll be going back to the Petsmart around here (except for training). Their selection is poor and the prices are insane. There's a local chain pet store here that has the same stuff and more with lower prices if you use your loyalty card. Their employees are also much more knowledgable. That being said, I'll probably order a braided bully stick from Amazon tonight or head to the store. His chewing/biting is getting much better (something I never thought I'd ever say! We had 2 people over the other night and he was as calm as could be around them - no biting, growling, barking, etc. But then he turned around and bit us. Oh well, he still has a lot to learn ).
Before we got him, I was reading an article online about feeding your dog. It said not to feed your dog past 5 or 6. I was thinking, "How can a dog go 12+hrs without food?". Usually after he goes out for the last time, I'll throw a few pieces of kibble in his Kong and set it in his crate. Not only does that help him to go in the crate, but it seems to keep him from wanting a midnight snack. If he does wake up around 2 or 3 to go out, I'll give him maybe 3 pieces when we come back in (as a reward and a "snack"). I'll have to try the plain yogurt trick though. I guess I just need to find something that works.
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