How many times a day should my German Shepard puppy eat?
The amount & frequency varies with age (which you didn’t tell us), quality (but you didn’t tell us what you are feeding), and lifestyle (an energetic puppy burns many more calories than does a couch potato). So you feed by eye. Some rules of thumb: • If the pup leaves the dish for any reason other than to investigate the thing you dropped nearby (after which he/she rushes back to the dish), you pick the dish up and put it away until next meal time, and for a while you feed a little less at each meal. • If the pup keeps hopefully licking the bowl long after it is clean, you need to increase the amount of food. I expect pups of sale-age to have a porridgy enriched milk 3 times a day, and raw meat at least twice a day. But see the Diet Sheet and the various feeding ideas in the first link below. And no, the only pup or adult I’ve had that developed an allergic reaction to milk was my first GSD, a $10 BYB-special, but he got only an under-arm wet-rash when he was about 4½-5 months old: • A
