What do you feed your dogs?
Your breeder should be interested in discussing nutrition with you and should make recommendations to you and give explanations as to why they feel the way they do.
Your breeder should not give an answer that is primarily a non-premium dry food. This means that either the breeder is a cheap jerk and doesn't care about the health of the bitch or the developing pups or the breeder is a cheap jerk that is getting free or heavily price-reduced food from a large manufacturing chain. Stay away from breeders who focus on their bottom line.
Foods that are often found in cheap discount-programs for large scale breeders include Diamond, Royal Canin, Purina, Eukanuba, Nutro and Natural Balance.
This isn't one of those “deal-breaker” questions, but it is something to consider.
Your breeder should not give an answer that is primarily a non-premium dry food. This means that either the breeder is a cheap jerk and doesn't care about the health of the bitch or the developing pups or the breeder is a cheap jerk that is getting free or heavily price-reduced food from a large manufacturing chain. Stay away from breeders who focus on their bottom line.
Foods that are often found in cheap discount-programs for large scale breeders include Diamond, Royal Canin, Purina, Eukanuba, Nutro and Natural Balance.
This isn't one of those “deal-breaker” questions, but it is something to consider.
What Food(s) do you wean the pups onto?
Puppies really require an excellent diet for proper cognitive growth and development. Any diet fed to a weaning puppy should include real, fresh and wholesome foods. Puppies should also be weaned onto commercial dog foods since pups weaned onto a fresh food diet will have an extremely rough transition to kibble and/or canned dog food.
The future comfort of the puppy needs to be considered. The only alternative to this is if the breeder requires you feed your puppy the same fresh-food diet (home prepared or purchased pre-made) that the litter is weaned onto. This is also not a "deal-breaker" kind of quesion, but it is a piece of the overall picture of what type of breeder and person you're dealing with.
