How much food should I feed my mixed breed dog to avoid overfeeding?

Rosco is a very handsome boy! Dog food is fine only for him, and feed him according to the instructions on his bag of food. That will tell you how much to feed him daily. He doesn't need added protein, and I would feed him twice a day. Once in the morning and once in the evening. From the pictures, he looks to be healthy. I hope this helps!

Thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! Feeding twice daily is fine as long as Caster is receiving his recommend amount of calories per day. I recommend the majority of his diet consists of the Royal Canin as that has the proper balance of vitamins and minerals for a growing dog and the human diet does not. The Royal Canin should have a place on the label for recommended feeding amounts for his age and weight. Kisses to Caster!

Great question! Each food has a different daily allotment and no two foods are the same, so to know how much to feed Moose, I would check the label on his bag of food. That will tell you how much he should be getting daily, and then I would divide it into two equal portions for him to eat. I hope this helps :-)

Congrats on your new dog, Paps is very handsome! He should be fed twice a day, and I would feed him according to the instructions on the food package. Divide the recommended daily allotment into two equal servings, and feed him morning and evening. Now if that's what you are doing and he seems very hungry, then divide the daily allotment into three portions and feed him morning, noon, and evening. Be sure to feed him a high quality dog food brand, as those will have the best ingredients to help keep him full and satisfied. Brands I recommend include Royal Canin, Hill's Science diet, Purina ProPlan, and Iams. I hope this helps, enjoy your handsome boy :-)

Although its a little hard to tell from the photo both of your pups look to be lean with good muscle mass. To assess body condition what you want to look for are a waist behind the ribs when viewed from above, and that you can feel but not see the spine and ribs. Young active dogs are certainly apt to be a bit leaner. You could certainly consider a diet for active large breed dogs, especially for the Dane mix. To figure out how much to feed you need to know two things. First, you need to find out how many calories are in a cup of your current food. This is sometimes written on the bag or you can go online to the foods website and typically find it. It would be written kcal/cup for dry or kcal/can for canned. Second, you need to figure out what the energy requirements for your dogs are. This will be different for different weights of dogs and for dogs with different lifestyles. A good website to go to to help you with this is the Ohio State University Pet calorie calculator. If you Google OSU dog calorie calculator it should pop up. This will show you how to calculate the energy requirement for your dogs based on their weights, and let you know what factor to multiply by for their lifestyle. Then basically when you know how many calories they should be taking in per day you can figure out how much to feed. Keep in mind if you do this and change the amount you are feeding, if you are seeing weight loss or excessive weight gain you will have to adjust the plan as it's not a perfect system. I hope this helps and thank you for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach!

Lucius should be fed twice a day, breakfast and dinner. Feed him only dog food, do not give him any human food, and only give him treats at most once or twice a week. Feed him according to the package instructions on his food, and divide the daily allotment into two equal meals. Make sure to take him out to exercise twice a day for at least 30 minutes at a time.

Luna is so cute! I recommend that you feed her a large breed puppy food. At this stage, she should have her total amount of food split into at least three meals a day. See the links below for more information on choosing a food for Luna, and about how to set up a good feeding schedule for her. https://talkspetfood.aafco.org/rightpetfood https://www.purina.com/articles/puppy/feeding/how-often-should-i-feed-my-puppy