A responsible breeder will be feeding them regularly with a quality brand puppy food. Young puppies need lots of water in front of them all day long and they eat four times a day. Check the bag of the puppy food you buy to see how often they recommend you feed.

"I love to find all kinds of goodies in my turtle sandbox like leaves, twigs, rocks and, oh boy, those homemade dog treats are yummy!"   Happy Jack One of the things I noticed pretty quickly was that Molly wasn't eating as much per day of the puppy food as what it said on the puppy food bag that she should be eating. Then I started experimenting to see just how much she was eating, and discovered that she was eating about 30% less of what it stated per day. This concerned me but she seemed healthy and satisfied.

I asked the vet about it, and she said to feed my Cairn puppy only what she wanted. I left the food in front of her for about 10 minutes. After that time, I remove it. However, I gave her access to as much water as she wanted because puppies dehydrate quickly and water should always be available to them.

When we got Jack a year later, it was the same situation. Jack was eating about 25% less than what it said on the commercial puppy food bag that he should be eating. Then I realized what was happening.

Consumer Tip: The more you are advised to feed your puppy by the commercial manufacturers, the more puppy food you will buy from them! It doesn't matter to them if you are over feeding your puppy. Even if the puppy doesn't eat it, some folks will throw the uneaten food away.

Each puppy is different so watch how much your puppy eats and don't overfeed him. When Molly and Jack were very young pups, I weighed them once a week and recorded their weight on the Cairn Terrier Wall Calendar as a record of how they were doing.

When Jack came to live with us, his breeder was feeding him Iams Puppy Food. Wow, now we had two types of food to buy and since Science Diet was not available at Walmart where we did most of our shopping, we slowly switched Molly over to Iams Adult Dog Food. We mixed her Science Diet feed with the Iams Adult Dog Food for a couple of weeks.

It is recommended to feed puppies quality commercial puppy feed (not adult dog feed) for 12 months, and that is what we purchased and fed our Cairns. When each of our Cairn Terrier's turned one year old, we slowly transitioned them into adult feed by mixing the puppy feed and adult feed together for a couple of weeks so as not to upset their stomachs.