How many feedings a day for an adult dog?
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I hope you don't mind, I added free fed as an option to your poll  |
Willowsprite wrote: I hope you don't mind, I added free fed as an option to your poll
Not at all!!! I should have thought of that since that was how I fed Tasker til he turned into the worlds biggest hogger  |
| We used to free feed, but my brother and his piggy golden retreiver moved in for a while a few years ago. She would eat everything she could find and we had to put the food up. So he (and we) got in the habit of feeding once in the morning and once in the evening. |
| I used to free feed Merlin too, he won't eat himself sick. Then along came Avalon and I have never seen a dog eat until they were sick until her. So instead of cleaning up her butt all the time, we feed the dogs twice a day. Scarlet still gets the occasional 3 meals a day. |
| I used to feed once a day but was advised to switch to twice to reduce the danger of bloat which can occur in large breed active dogs. |
| 4 eat once a day - rat terrier, basset, 2 labs
3 eat twice a day - Chewie, coonhound and 5 month old foster basset 1 eats all day - minpin - gets his bowl in the am and nibbles on it throughout the day in his crate. |
| The boys get food in the morning and they graze all day, then they get a second portion added in the evening, also which they graze on. It's kind of a scheduled free feed.
Lucy, for years, only would eat once a day but after she got more on the rhythm of the boys' schedule, she started getting all antsy in the mornings to eat with them so now she eats once in the morning and once in the evening. |
| We feed Barns in the morning and the night. Although if he (heaven forbid!) leave anything in the bowl, we don't take it away, so he's free to have it whenever he likes. But he doesn't like to eat alone. |
| Two meals here... all six eat at 5am and 5pm with a
midday snack of a cooked protein, a biscuit or raw veggies. |
2 meals here too. once i wake up and around 4pm. if i left it up to yuki and put her food out in the morning, she would either be overweight or beggggggggggging me for dinner in the evening b/c she was a piggy and ate it all earlier.  |
| Wow, I am suprised at thgat most everyone seems to feed 2x's. It makes sense. When I stopped free feeding Tasker a few years ago I went to once a day, have no idea why. This morning I started the switch to 2x's and Tasker looked quite amazed to see food in his bowl at that hour , but of course he gobbled it right up!!!!
Ty, on the other hand, had some very strange eating habits. He has food in his crate all day but rarely touches it. He need's "company" while he eats. His biggest meal of the day is eaten at bedtime. When we go to bed we have to bring his bowl with us and he chomps down about 3/4 of his food then BUT ONLY if we are there with him. In the evening I put his bowl on the back of the couch and he will nibble a bit while we watch TV but he ususally waits til bedtime for the "big feed". |
| My maltese is EXACTLY the same way. Recently, at almost 6 yo, we started to soak her food until it's literally soft enough to bite once in, sprinkle a little mozzarella, and she surprisingly eats it right up (with a few words of encouragement)! So in the past 2 months, she's been eating twice a day (about 10-14 kibbles each meal.. she barely eats). Never would have done this before, so I'm happy. |
| Probably because old habits die hard, we feed Drez once a day, at suppertime. We were always advised by the vet (of course, that was YEARS ago when we got our first sheepie - 1979) to feed once a day, and that's what we have done ever since. Drez is also one who would eat until she threw up, so free feeding was never a consideration. |
| Violet, who is 4 yrs old is given food twice a day, and a snack in the middle of the day when I have lunch. I used to Free Feed her, but for whatever reason, she became very mean about her bowl being down and China going through the doggie door which is right next to Violet's bowl, (bad idea) So now I allow her a half hour to eat and if she doesn't it gets put up until dinner time.
China, my Aussie's, food is put down twice a day and is left down, China is still Free Fed. Pearl, the cat, sometimes stops by China's food and takes a snack. Neither dog has ever eaten out of the other's dish. There are days that they eat all of their food right away and other days that they take their time and it takes all day. They all seem very happy with the arrangement we have. |
| IF I tried free-feeding it would end up being one large meal a day, as it would be gone as soon as it hit the floor.
Dixie LOVES her food. Last year as a test for one meal I kept feeding her and stopped at 9 cups of kibble 
And Bosley would just eat it so that SHE couldn't have it...
We feed twice a day, to break it up. Also, I like the idea that I am the one what controls ALL the resources, so they know who to listen to... I feed them and make sure that they know who provides their meals. |
| Oscar gets fed twice a day, once at 6 a.m., and once at 4 p.m. (Guess what time I have a sheepie head on my pillow?....5:59 a.m. ) We started this to help prevent bloat, but it really comes in handy if your dog has to take any meds with food.
Laurie and Oscar |
Panda gets breakfast and dinner....730 am and 530 pm...we could probably free feed her, but personally i like to see her all wiggley and happy when im prepping her meals...  |
| Same as Darcy with feeding times, twice a day.
Free feeding would not work here, mine would eat till they exploded.
Besides I always like to know how much they are having in a day, wether to up it or cut it back. Also if they are unwell, I know exactly what they are eating and how much they are actually eating when not well. |
Well, I'm convinced. Tasker is now getting an AM & PM feeding. He thinks he has died and gone to heaven  |
| You are dividing the amount in half, right Ginny?
No extra bonuses for fluffy Tasker!  |
| We do free feed. From the time we got Breena at 8 weeks she has been self regulated. Eats when she wants and never eats more than her 3 cups. One day I gave her 5 to see what she would do, at the end of the day she had exactly 2 cups she hadn't eated. |
| we feed s'more 3 times a day but she's only 6 months old.
She eats about 5 cups of food a day--- that's probably too much, but she makes a happy bowl and we can still feel her ribs |
| I feedd once a day - the Irish Setter gets fed in the morning (he would eat all day if given a chance) but the two sheepies don't eat until night time and only finish their food (about three cups) every third day or so. They do get kongs with peanut butter in the morning. |
| I feed twice a day, but the truth is that it often becomes a free feed sort of thing. Archie is not quick to the food dish, unless he's given a special treat, and even then, often will eat only a portion of what I give him. I've tried a variety of strategies: picking up his food after 20 minutes and making him wait until the next meal, for instance. The truth is that food isn't all that important to him. He's been known to skip meals for a day or two--not ill in any way, full of energy and happy, no nausea or diarhhea--just not all that hungry. He's a very lean dog, in stark contrast to our first OES, Merlin who would do his best to con anybody and everybody out of extra meals.
One of the reasons I've always done twice a day and not removed food very quickly is that I don't want my dogs to scarf down their food, in fear of it being taken away. |
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