Puppy food is not easier on the stomach for puppies, and it is too high in calcium and other nutrients; This is the danger. Puppies do not need that extra calcium for growing bones. In the wild, after pups are weaned and done eating regurgitated food, they are at the bottom of the pack, scavenging what little morsels ar left after the kill -- usually stomach contents and scraps . They are skinny and malnourished -- but they grow slowly and properly. The same joint issues that plague our puppies do not plague the wild dogs.

Vets are not taught about nutrition in school; 99% will recommend puppy food (and poor quality brands at that) because of the financial kickbacks they recieve from they companies they promote, like Science Diet and MediCal. A holistic vet may be up to date since they learn about nutrition in their holistic schooling, but still some may not know. The structure experts, like Pat Hastings, do know. Pat Hastings has studied thousands of puppies from 8 weeks to adulthood, keeping track of the food they are on. Puppy food consistently produces the worst results, especially in large breeds and those predisposed to joint issues. I would highly suggest attending a Pet Hastings structure seminar before feeding puppy food. She has amazing personal firsthand experience, and many photographs. There isn't a single person out there that knows more about it than she, and a vet simply doesn't have the same experience nor done the amount of research.