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Butter II @ 5 months

Thank you all for the warm welcome. For sure, I enjoy the BPO. I check BPO everyday for new posts.

As for pictures of butter II, I have posted some in the following post.
 http://www.bigpawsonly.com/index.php/topic,17707.0.html

I'll post more later on.

I remember my breeder telling me not to go over 23% protein for my dogs and that excessive protein would give them excessive energy which at least for my breed, isn't the type of dog they are. I dunno.

There are 3 sources that can convert to calories(energy): protein(excessive), fat, and carbohydrate. The latter one is the easiest one to convert to calories(in the form of glucose). High protein(>40%) food contains less carbohydrate(<20%), and low protein(~24%) food contain much more carbohydrate(>40%).

An interesting article.
"high-carbohydrate diet the dog had been eating might be producing hyper-reactivity. "
http://www.webtrail.com/petbehavior/april99.html

Just analyzed the Nutritional Facts about the low protein food:Innova Large puppy. It listed the follow main components:
Moisture     10.00  %
Protein    24.00  %
Fat       12.00  %
Linoleic Acid    2.5  %
Fiber            4.00  %
Ash            4.75  %
Other      <5.0%

It adds up to 60%! What is missing? Carbohydrates! So carb is around 40%.

The Innova EVO:
Moisture     7.50  %
Protein    43.16  %
Fat       22.22  %
Linoleic Acid    4.20  %
Carbohydrates    14.46  %
Fiber       1.52  %
Ash       11.14  %
Calcium    3.03  %

It adds up to 107%! There is still other components left! This is better than the Innova low protein food, since it lists the percentage of Carbohydrates, but somehow it mess the total value.

The Orijen Large puppy:
Protein     42.0% (min.)
Carbohydrate    18.0% (max.)
Fat    16.0% (min.)
Moisture    10.0% (max.)
Fiber    2.0% (max.)
Calcium    1.4% (min.)
Phosphorus    1.1% (min.)
Omega-6    2.5% (min.)
Omega-3    1.0% (min.)

Adds up to 94%. This is much better in reporting it's Nutritional value than the first 2.

I checked other low protein dry dog food, up to now there is no one reporting the percentage of Carbohydrate in their product. Since high protein = low cab, low protein = high carb. The question I now may ask is high protein or high carb, which is better?

A lot people are saying high protein is bad for large breed puppies. Why is that? It makes grow them too fast? Any evidence? Is it OK to just feed less and keep the same level of daily protein intake? For example, both Innova EVO and Orijen have about 42% protein, and it's recommended to feed 24% protein dry food to puppies, can I feed ~60% of high protein food? Please share your experience.

The ban or restriction is really ridiculous. But I checked the RDOWS website, it does not have any list of dogs that were banned or restricted, just a PDF listing all the states and local legislation that has the dog ban or not. How is the list created? Another thing is there is no description if the paritular dog breed is banned or restricted.