How do your dogs eat?

[MushyMushy]

In other words, do you have a dog who wolfs the food right down, or does your dog prefer to graze all day?

My two do both. One of them gobbles it up, but the other one would rather nibble all day. Unfortunately, the gobbler will steal hers, so we have to keep the grazer's food where we can watch it.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

In other words, do you have a dog who wolfs the food right down, or does your dog prefer to graze all day?

My two do both. One of them gobbles it up, but the other one would rather nibble all day. Unfortunately, the gobbler will steal hers, so we have to keep the grazer's food where we can watch it.

The lab gobbles up all of her food at once. The shepherd will sometimes eat all at once and sometimes just leaves it. I'll pick it up and put it out of reach of the dogs if she doesn't eat it right away. Then later in the day if the shepherd lets me know she wants it, I'll put it back down for her. Otherwise the lab would just eat everything! I have to feed them in separate rooms too...

 

[sunlver]

Well I have 3 big dogs that I own, and always one foster dog.
I feed twice a day. I do not leave food down all day. Food gets put down in bowls, the dogs eat right up. Of course some eat slower then others, but always finish in one sitting. We have no grazers here simply because I NEVER leave food out all day. The vet once told me. to put food down, set a limit(like 15 minutes)then pick up food. By the next meal time, dogs will eat

My dogs are fed 6am and then again around 4:30 pm. I separate the dogs, as the faster dogs will try and eat the slower dogs food.

 

[monkey68]

My dog is picky. She won't eat out of a dog bowl, she prefers a plate. And she will eat only one piece at a time. She takes a piece in her mouth, goes to the living room, sits on the carpet, chews, then goes back to the kitchen for another piece. She eats it all in one "sitting" though, it just takes her a while.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Our older dog will eat his when he gets it til it's gone. Not quickly, just so it's gone. Zoey, the puppy will graze at her all-you-can-eat buffet (we feed her as much as she wants) all day til we pick it up at night. She will go over to Wylie's area to lay down in and bark at him like he is getting at her food. She is very territorial about her food.

 

[DSNYGRL_JKS2006]

LOL this is a good one because I thought it was just OUR dog. My boyfriend and I's black lab who is a male.. is 2 years old now.. we sware.. every time he eats its ALL at once or nothing at all LOL! He doesn't graze the food at all..we tell him "buddy theres no need to rush the food wont dissappear take it slowerrrr.. LOL"

But yes def. have a gobbler. Time to time..he'll graze.. when hes not overly hungry OR if he already gobbeled down his food earlier in the day and this is his 2nd time eating for the day.

Such a funny question though!!!
Here he is:

 

[Stacerita]

Both of my dogs are grazers. But they do tend to eat out of the bowl whenever we are sitting at the table eating.

 

[Aisling]

My dog is a gobbler. I was worried that it may not be good for his stomach, so I bought a food bowl that has "obstacles" built into it, and it's helped a lot. It takes him twice as long to finish his food.

He has a set time everyday to eat, and when he's done, I take away his food bowl until the next feeding. Otherwise he'd be eating all day long. He loves to eat!

 

[Mad4Mickey]

Our Rottie is free fed and it is really strange he will kinda graze a little when we are gone( you can tell when we get back home that has been picked at).
When we are home he runs over to gobble it all up as long as we are in the same room with him LOL.

He is such a freak , when we are at work ( I work at a vet clinic) he gobbles up the whole bowl when the girls there feed him lunch . They think we starve him at home

 

[wvdisluv2]

Ours are both "grazers"~the terrier mix will even turn his nose up at bacon?!?! Our boxer-lab was starving when we rescued her though she still leaves the dog food unless we are cooking...then she will eat They are buddies and compliment each other

 

[Piglet4Ever]

One of our families dogs used to take a mouthfull of food and bring it into what ever room we were all in drop it on the floor and then start eating. It was pretty unique to say the least.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

Kody gobbles and Hurley grazes. Piglet4Ever, Hurley does that too. I thought he was the only dog that did that. Oh, and I think the reason Kody gobbles is because Hurley growls at him while he's eating.

 

[MushyMushy]

My dog is picky. She won't eat out of a dog bowl, she prefers a plate. And she will eat only one piece at a time. She takes a piece in her mouth, goes to the living room, sits on the carpet, chews, then goes back to the kitchen for another piece. She eats it all in one "sitting" though, it just takes her a while.

I used to have a dog that would grab a mouthful of food, bring it to the living room, drop it on the floor and eat it bite by bite. He just wanted to eat with us.

Our Zoey (in avatar) would eat like that if the piggy wouldn't steal from her.

 

[NMAmy]

I used to have a dog that would grab a mouthful of food, bring it to the living room, drop it on the floor and eat it bite by bite. He just wanted to eat with us.

I've had several dogs that did this. It always cracks me up.

I don't have a specific feeding time for the dog--I leave the food available all day. Sunny will tend to eat in the evening when we sit down for dinner (her bowl is in the dining area.) But if we eat out or something, she'll wait until we're settled in the family room and bring her food to us.

 

[bigbabyblues]

My dog is picky. She won't eat out of a dog bowl, she prefers a plate. And she will eat only one piece at a time. She takes a piece in her mouth, goes to the living room, sits on the carpet, chews, then goes back to the kitchen for another piece. She eats it all in one "sitting" though, it just takes her a while.

My Sheltie does this, only she doesn't sit down while eating. The lab gobbles his food in about 2 seconds, and sometimes I wonder if he chews it.

 

[PebblesMK]

My fat little Mildred varies in how she eats. If she gets her morning egg mixed in, she grunts and snorts as she inhales the entire bowl in about 15 seconds. It's so disgusting. If I'm gone, she won't eat at all. I went to Michigan for 4 days and she didn't eat a single bite but then ate soooo much when I got back. On a typical day, she'll dig through her food and pick up the pieces she doesn't like and fling them over her head (they're all the same!) and then afterwards she'll take a few pieces to her bed to eat.

 

[golfgal]

We have food in our dog's dish all the time. She eats when she is hungry, usually just once/day sometimes she skips a day. Now, if you put an egg in there, she gobbles that up right away though .

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My dog is slow and steady. She eats her food pretty much right away twice a day, but she doesn't gobble. Usually there's nothing left in her dish, with the exception of maybe a pea or two if we scrape our leftovers into her bowl for her.

Sometimes if we're busy and dinner's running late (for all of us), she'll go and stand near her bowl, just waiting.

She doesn't usually pick the trash unless there's something really good in there that she can't resist. Like the other night, I took home a few pieces of meat scraps from our dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I'd placed them in a fortune cookie wrapper. When I came home, I put the scraps in her dish, then threw away the wrapper. Later I found it on the living room floor, licked completely clean (but not shredded).

Luckily, she's a great dog to live with that way. Not a chow hound.

 

[mickeywho?]

Our Molly is a gobbler. I can't believe she eats so quickly! She an English Cocker Spaniel - just 9 months old - and I think her tummy is a bottomless pit. We really need to watch how many treats the kids give her - she'll eat anything she's offered.
Here she is

 

[Pakey]

My little Chinese cresteds are both gobblers. They eat a bland diet of roasted chicken and rice for their breakfast and dinner (their "treats" are a spoonful of pumpkin). Since Cresteds do not have a lot of teeth, the chicken is cut into itty bitty pieces anyway. Sometimes it irks me that so much time is put into preparing their food and they eat it so fast that they don't even taste it.