Dog Food Guide by Breed
Explore food guidance across 100 public breeds, including body size, expected weight, repeated health risks, ingredient checks, and nutrition priorities.
Use breed pages as context, not as a shortcut.
Breed guides work best when they help you narrow risk patterns, body-size context, and the next issue guide to open. They should not replace calorie, symptom, or life-stage reality.
Start with risk patterns
Open a breed page first when you want the shortlist of issues that repeatedly matter for that breed.
Then check the matching issue guide
If the breed page keeps surfacing joints, skin, heart, or dental context, move immediately into the linked issue pages.
Use personalized results last
Once you understand the breed context, use personalized results to confirm whether the same priorities still fit your own dog.
Explore health risks and tailored nutrition criteria across 101 breeds.
How to use this breed index
Choose the breed page first
Open the exact breed to see size, expected weight, and linked risk patterns before comparing foods.
Move into issue context
When the breed page surfaces joints, skin, heart, dental, kidney, or allergy context, continue into the issue guide.
Use nutrition pages for the numbers
NRC, safety, ingredient, and manufacturing pages explain the label values behind the breed context.
Finish with the dog profile
A breed page is still incomplete without age, weight trend, symptoms, allergies, and current food history.
Popular breed guides
These entries show how breed context should move into size, risk, nutrient, and label evidence before product comparison.
Maltese food guide
Connect small-breed calorie control with heart, dental, joint, and skin risk checks before choosing foods.
Poodle food guide
Use body size, skin and digestive sensitivity, joint context, and protein-source review as the first filters.
Bichon Frise tear and food guide
Check tear staining, skin and ear signals, dental context, protein history, and small-breed calories together.
Shih Tzu food guide
Read weight tendency, skin and coat signals, dental care, and calorie density together.
Welsh Corgi food guide
Frame food choices around weight control, back and joint load, calorie density, and training treat overlap.
Golden Retriever food guide
Start with large-breed weight control, joint support, skin context, and cardiac nutrient disclosure.
French Bulldog food guide
Layer skin, digestive tolerance, weight control, and respiratory-related activity limits before comparing formulas.
German Shepherd food guide
Check large-breed joint context, digestive stability, calorie density, and disclosed omega support together.
Small Breed
4 breeds
Small Breed
24 breeds
Coton de Tulear
3.6~6.8 kg
Norwich Terrier
5.4~5.4 kg
Lhasa Apso
5.4~8.2 kg
Russell Terrier
4.1~6.8 kg
Maltipoo
3~9 kg
Miniature Schnauzer
5~9.1 kg
Miniature Pinscher
3.6~4.5 kg
Border Terrier
5.2~7 kg
Brussels Griffon
3.6~4.5 kg
Beagle
5.9~6.8 kg
Bichon Frise
5.4~8.2 kg
Scottish Terrier
8.2~10 kg
Shih Tzu
4.1~7.3 kg
West Highland White Terrier
6.8~9.1 kg
Italian Greyhound
3.2~6.4 kg
Japanese Chin
3.2~5 kg
Chinese Crested
3.6~5.4 kg
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
5.9~8.2 kg
Cairn Terrier
5.9~6.4 kg
Papillon
2.3~4.5 kg
Pug
6.4~8.2 kg
Pekingese
6.4~6.4 kg
Poodle
4.5~6.8 kg
Havanese
3.2~5.9 kg
Medium Breed
25 breeds
Norwegian Elkhound
21.8~24.9 kg
Dachshund
5~14.5 kg
Lagotto Romagnolo
10.9~15.9 kg
Rat Terrier
4.5~11.3 kg
Miniature American Shepherd
9.1~18.1 kg
Basenji
10~10.9 kg
Border Collie
13.6~24.9 kg
Boston Terrier
5.4~11.3 kg
Boykin Spaniel
11.3~18.1 kg
Bulldog
18.1~22.7 kg
Brittany
13.6~18.1 kg
Shetland Sheepdog
6.8~11.3 kg
Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
13.6~18.1 kg
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
10.9~17.2 kg
Shiba Inu
7.7~10.4 kg
American Hairless Terrier
5.4~12.7 kg
Australian Cattle Dog
15.9~22.7 kg
English Springer Spaniel
18.1~22.7 kg
English Cocker Spaniel
11.8~15.4 kg
Cardigan Welsh Corgi
11.3~17.2 kg
Cocker Spaniel
9.1~13.6 kg
Keeshond
15.9~20.4 kg
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
12.7~13.6 kg
French Bulldog
12.7~12.7 kg
Whippet
11.3~18.1 kg
Large Breed
48 breeds
Golden Retriever
24.9~34 kg
Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
38.6~63.5 kg
Great Dane
49.9~79.4 kg
Great Pyrenees
38.6~45.4 kg
Newfoundland
45.4~68 kg
Dalmatian
20.4~31.8 kg
Doberman Pinscher
27.2~45.4 kg
Labrador Retriever
24.9~36.3 kg
Leonberger
40.8~77.1 kg
Rhodesian Ridgeback
31.8~38.6 kg
Rottweiler
36.3~61.2 kg
Mastiff
54.4~104.3 kg
Basset Hound
18.1~29.5 kg
Weimaraner
24.9~40.8 kg
Bernese Mountain Dog
31.8~52.2 kg
Belgian Malinois
18.1~36.3 kg
Belgian Tervuren
20.4~34 kg
Dogue de Bordeaux
44.9~49.9 kg
Boxer
22.7~36.3 kg
Bouvier des Flandres
31.8~49.9 kg
Bullmastiff
45.4~59 kg
Bull Terrier
22.7~31.8 kg
Bloodhound
36.3~49.9 kg
Vizsla
20~27.2 kg
Samoyed
15.9~29.5 kg
St. Bernard
54.4~81.6 kg
Siberian Husky
15.9~27.2 kg
Anatolian Shepherd Dog
36.3~68 kg
American Staffordshire Terrier
18.1~31.8 kg
Irish Setter
27.2~31.8 kg
Irish Wolfhound
47.6~54.4 kg
Akita
31.8~59 kg
Alaskan Malamute
34~38.6 kg
Airedale Terrier
22.7~31.8 kg
Australian Shepherd
18.1~29.5 kg
Old English Sheepdog
27.2~45.4 kg
Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
15.9~31.8 kg
English Setter
20.4~36.3 kg
Giant Schnauzer
24.9~43.1 kg
German Shepherd Dog
22.7~40.8 kg
German Shorthaired Pointer
20.4~31.8 kg
German Wirehaired Pointer
22.7~31.8 kg
Chow Chow
20.4~31.8 kg
Chinese Shar-Pei
20.4~27.2 kg
Cane Corso
39.9~49.9 kg
Collie
22.7~34 kg
Portuguese Water Dog
15.9~27.2 kg
Flat-Coated Retriever
27.2~31.8 kg
From breed search to useful food criteria
A breed search page is useful only when it moves the reader from a breed name into risk, nutrient, and label evidence. Use this flow to connect breed context with NRC targets, Ca:P ratio, sodium, EPA+DHA, and personalized recommendations.
How to use the index
Open the exact breed page
Confirm the breed size, expected weight range, and recurring health-risk pattern.
Layer the matching issue guide
Use the linked issue page to see nutrient priorities, NRC target shifts, and label checks.
Finish with the individual dog profile
Apply age, weight, activity, symptoms, allergies, and current food history before choosing a product.
Breed guide FAQ
How should I use a breed food guide?
Start with the breed risk pattern, then open the matching issue guide and check NRC, safety, and label disclosure before using personalized recommendations.
Can breed alone decide the right food?
No. Breed context narrows the search, but age, weight trend, allergies, symptoms, and current food history decide the final fit.
Body type and activity
Common vulnerabilities
Feeding priorities
Frames breed pages as nutrition context pages that connect body type, common risks, and feeding priorities.
Body type and activity
Common vulnerabilities
Feeding priorities
This information is for general reference only and does not replace professional veterinary diagnosis and advice. Always consult your veterinarian for your pet's health concerns.