Overview:
This puppy feeding chart printable covers portions by age for toy, small, medium, large, and giant breeds, plus a daily schedule with potty breaks and a 12-week weight tracking log. Print it, stick it on your fridge, and follow it.
I made this puppy feeding chart printable because I was tired of digging through my own notes every time someone asked me what to feed their puppy at a specific age. Four German Shepherds in, I still write things down. Bags of food lie, memory lies more, and a chart taped to the fridge doesn’t.
If you, too, are tired of eyeballing it and guesswork, this puppy feeding guide printable is just what you need. For a fuller picture of puppy nutrition beyond portions and schedules, refer to our Complete Guide to Puppy Nutrition, which covers everything this printable doesn’t have room for.
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What’s Inside the Printable
This puppy feeding chart printable runs four pages, each doing a different job.
Page 1: Feeding Chart by Breed Size and Age
This section of our puppy feeding guide printable contains a five-column chart covering toy through giant breeds, with rows from 6 weeks to 18 months. Each cell gives cups per meal, meals per day, and the daily total, calculated for standard kibble at roughly 375 kcal per cup.
Page 2: Feeding Schedule by Age
Using this portion of the printable puppy feeding schedule, you can clock-time meal schedules for the four-meal, three-meal, and two-meal phases, with potty break timing built in. There’s blank space to fill in your own household’s actual times.
Page 3: Weekly Weight and Feeding Tracker
This segment of the puppy food chart PDF contains a 12-week grid for date, weight, food amount, a simplified body condition score, and notes. That’s one quarter of puppyhood on a single page. Print a fresh copy for the next.
Page 4: Body Condition Quick Reference
Plain-language descriptions of underweight, ideal, overweight, and obese, along with the rib test, waist test, and tummy test, so you’re never guessing at what “too thin” or “too round” actually feels like under your hands.
The puppy portion chart download is extremely simple and will come in handy at every step of your puppy feeding journey.
How to Use the Feeding Chart
Using this puppy feeding chart printable comes down to four steps.
- Find your breed’s size category: Use the breed lookup table on the page or the one printed inside the PDF if you’re not sure where your puppy falls.
- Find your puppy’s current age row: Rows run from 6 to 12 weeks up through 12 to 18 months.
- Read across for cups per meal and meals per day: Read at that intersection. That’s your starting portion for the week.
- Adjust based on your specific food’s calorie density: If it’s meaningfully different from 375 kcal per cup, and based on how your puppy’s body actually looks and feels, not just what the row says.
When to Adjust the Chart
No puppy feeding chart printable, no matter how carefully built, replaces watching your actual puppy. Every chart, printed or not, is a starting point, not a fixed rule. Adjust the portion up if your puppy’s ribs feel sharp under your hand with no cushioning, a sign she’s underfed for where she’s at. Adjust down if you can’t feel ribs at all without pressing firmly, since that usually means she’s getting more than she needs.
Recalculate whenever you switch foods, since a new bag almost always carries a different calorie density than the last one. And if you want portions built around your puppy’s exact numbers rather than a general breed-size bracket, our puppy food calculator does that math for you using your pet’s current weight, age, and food.
FAQs
1. Can I use this puppy feeding chart printable for any puppy food brand?
The chart is built on standard kibble at roughly 375 kcal per cup. If your food runs significantly higher or lower than that, adjust the portions proportionally, or use our puppy food calculator for numbers built around your exact food.
2. How often should I update my puppy’s feeding amounts?
Monthly during the first six months, since growth and calorie needs shift fast during that window. Weigh your puppy and check her body condition weekly regardless, since a monthly recalculation still needs weekly eyes on how she’s actually doing.
3. What if my puppy is a mixed breed?
Estimate her expected adult size based on her parents if you know them. If you don’t, our growth and adult size guide walks through a rough estimation method. When genuinely unsure, choose the larger breed size category on the chart. It’s safer to slightly underestimate calorie needs than to overestimate them.
The Bottom Line
Print it once, and this puppy feeding chart printable earns its spot on your fridge for the better part of a year. Puppyhood moves fast enough that you’ll outgrow rows on the page before you’ve had it up for a month, and that’s exactly the point. Fill in the tracker, snap a photo of it every few weeks if you’re the type who likes a record, and reprint a fresh copy for the next quarter when this one fills up. For more details on portion size behind the numbers on the chart, our how much to feed a puppy guide has the full breakdown, our puppy feeding schedule covers meal timing in more depth, and our puppy weight chart helps you sanity-check whether her growth is tracking where it should. You’ll also find this printable, along with our other downloadables, on our free resources page.