Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Havanese | Male | unneutered | 9 months and 21 days old
I'm ordering puppy food for Kiba and I would also like to order his first batch of adult dog food because he's 1 in a couple months and I'd like to save up on delivery cost. The company I'm using has a normal adult dog food and they also have one specific for small breeds. The normal one contains salmon, the small breed one has lamb in it. Should I get Kiba the one meant for small breeds?
1 Answer
Published on March 18th, 2017
That's a great way to plan ahead! As a Havanese, Kiba could eat either of the diets you mentioned with no adverse consequences. However, if his puppy food is lamb based, I would be more inclined to try the small breed lamb based diet so as not to change protein sources. I always recommend starting with a small bag of the new food in the chance that Kiba either won't eat it or develops stomach upset from the new diet. Anytime you change to a new diet, please do so by gradually mixing the foods together over 5-7 days.
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