Adopted a stray puppy. Currently around 8-9 months; somewhere between 16-18kg.

At first I started with Pedigree - hair loss, that was an innocent enough mistake when I learned from the pet store to never feed any food I can get from the supermarket.

Switched to Bil-Jac for puppies. No more hair loss, puppy seems to like the food but my issue with the feed is that there seems to be a lot of it wasted as the feed easily crumbles to form powders.

Switched to NutriEdge - regular one for all stages, Chicken meat. Okay. Pet store says it's the best available. Couldn't find any info about it on the internet so I just went ahead despite it being much more expensive than the previous brand. Dog seems to like it, no problem until I think my dog go bored with this brand.

Then there was a promotion for a new range of feed also from NutriEdge - Salmon & grain free. I bought a total of 21kg of the feed. I notice my dog were not so actively feeding. In the past, she'd eat every time I pour feed into the bowl but lately she's just been not wanting to eat. She does eat if I feed her by hand but I don't usually do that unless the feed has been left for more than 6 hours.

I also notice that my dog has been shedding a lot lately this past month. I don't think the feed is causing this problem, perhaps it just coincidentally overlapped with my dog's shedding season.

Actually the puppy strayed into my compound and it didn't run away when I gave it water and some biscuits, so here we are
Thanks for your feedback. I was considering to switch to another possibly more fragrant brand but I don't think I've seen that many premium kibble brands in my regular pet store.

This new range from NutriEdge is grain free, completely blue, 3.6kg packing. The promotion at the time was buy 1 free 1; 3.6kg for RM85, free 3.6kg. I thought the promo price per kg was reasonable. I have 2 and a half bags left.

One thing I notice about my dog's current feeding habit is that, every once a while when I feed it with cooked chicken meat with bones, like the leftover from chicken rice shops, she will finish the kibbles more quickly. No idea why or if it's even related.

Why sugar?