16 week puppy suddenly waking very early

[mckenzie]

We have been very lucky I think in that right from day one, at 10 weeks old, our puppy has gone through the night, in the crate, without a murmur.
Suddenly, he's waking at 5am, 5.15am etc. We leave him and he does re settle but DH thinks he might be hungry.

We are raw feeding (Nutriment at the moment) and they recommend 5-6% of body weight and I'm feeding 5.5%.
He gets a few training treats but I use really small pieces so today for example he probably had the equivalent of half a small fingers worth of steak (only because it was left over last night from our dinner. I don't buy it for him especially )

Any ideas please?

TIa

if you think he's hungry try moving his last feed to a bit later or giving him a bit more food at the last meal.

This is the recommended % amount for puppies, taken from dogsdinner2.webs.com/feedingpuppies.htm so it looks like you might need to up his daily food allowance a bit

7-10 weeks 8 - 10% of bodyweight
10-16 weeks 7.5 - 8.5% of bodyweight
16-20 weeks 6.5 - 7.5% of bodyweight
20-24 weeks 5.5 - 6.5% of bodyweight
24-36 weeks 4.5 - 5.5% of bodyweight
36-56 weeks 3.5 - 4.5% of bodyweight
56-68 weeks 3.5%
68 weeks plus is adult maintenence at 2-3%

Thanks both of you.
LT, I saw that but I checked with Nutriment and they insist that their puppy food is such that it should only be 5-6%.
Posting yesterday though tempted fate and
This morning, he was still asleep when DD came down at 7.15 so I'll keep things as they are for now and hope those 5.15 wake ups were just blips.
Thank you.

Ah that's good news.

You needn't up the daily amount of food you give him, but you could make the last meal slightly larger (and a preceding meal correspondingly smaller), to keep him going through the night.

Sorry mckenzie, posted info and then realised it was you who'd posted originally!

Thanks guys. My fault LT. I'm posting lots of questions