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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jeff Stanley:
Puppies have mothers milk for the first 8 to 12 weeks of life, but mothers milk only contains 7.5 percent protein.
Some of the common puppy feed contains 28 to 30% protein.
Isn’t that a lot of protein? Do you think a puppy needs that % of proitein</font>
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Do you realize that 28 to 30% protein only means the percentage of protein content over the total amount of food content? And not the quality of the protein content at all. Mother's milk contains one of the highest quality biological values of protein (pure form amino acids) of all food sources, that's why is so vital and nutritious to growing puppies
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Growth is attributed to calcium and phosphorus intake. These minerals support bone structure development. Lack or excess of those two minerals may cause serious health ailmnets. In the other hand, protein builds and repairs tissue, however, excesses of it are bad for the liver and kidneys.
The key is to have a dog food formulation within desired ratios of nutritients. If you get cheap food, well you get cheap nutrition
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