What High Quality Food Can I Give To My 8-Week Old Boxer?

Friday, September 04, 2009 Posted by revalbertkang

Q: My boxer is 8-week old. Should he still drink milk from the bottle? What other quality food can I feed him?

Answer given by Daddy Albert

A: Your 8-week old puppy should be ready for solid food. My recommendation has always been home-cooked food. If your Boxer is still taking milk, then start introducing solid food in blended form.

If you are giving commercial food then it should be wet food - those in cans. You may want to try feeding him with chicken soups that are sold in cans and are meant for human consumptions.

You can easily provide HIGH QUALITY fresh food by cooking it yourself. You can buy lean chicken breast meats to begin with, After that add more red or dark meats to the recipes.

Of course, the other two food types that you need to include would be vegetable and carbohydrates. We use cabbage and cauliflowers for roughage. For carb, we use rice here in Malaysia but you can use pasta and potato.

You may mix the food with milk but that should be cut down quickly because at 8 weeks, your boxer should get its protein from meats.

Anyway, it's time to move to solid foods. Your puppy will enjoy chewing small meat chunks and other delicious ingredients.

Give it a try!