How many times a day do you feed your dog
How many times a day do you feed your dog? Lisa and Frankie |
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| Usually just once |
| Of course he's going to take his biscuit. It's like handing a kid a cookie before his regular meal. I find it best to feed 2 times a day once they are past the puppy stages (after six months). My dogs get fed at 6:45AM & 5:30PM. They get 1/2 their total amount in the AM along with 1 medium sized biscuit & any joint supplements or other meds tossed in their bowl & then the other 1/2 along with 1 more medium sized biscuit in the PM. Awhile back I started putting 1 medium sized biscuit in their kennels when they went to bed for the night. If I forget, all 3 look at me like "welllll.............where's the cookie!" If Frankie is your only dog he may see no reason to eat his food right away as he has no competition. I'd put his food down for 30 minutes & then take it up whatever he didn't eat until dinnertime. At dinnertime, add to the breakfast amount to bring it up to the correct amount for 1 feeding. Again, leave it down for 30 minutes & then take up any food not eaten. They generally get the hang of it pretty quickly. I don't feed once a day mainly to avoid any possibility of bloat. Never have had a problem with it but I don't want to take a chance on it either so I do it this way. |
| I feed twice a day. Some meals they eat every bite, other times maybe half. Zachary is a slow eater but he's learning that if he pokes around the bowl will be removed. When there is only one dog I agree with Marilyn, allow so much time then pick it up. |
| once at dinner time always worked for us. |
| My 3 girls age 7,6, 2 eat twice a day...one cup in the morning and one at night. China usually only eats half of her food per meal. I used to "free feed" until my cat started eating their left overs and had digestive problems. My Hoover aka Violet usually snarkles up any left overs. |
| We did twice a day here, but Hudson has a stomach thing where he produces a lot of acid, and we were having issues with vomiting yellow bile in the wee hours of the morning. Now it's six am and four thirty pm (when I get home) and a handful just before bed to give their tummies something to work on while they sleep. Rudy doesn't need it, but it wouldn't be fair to do it for just one, so it's now the highlight of bedtime. If one of us forgets, Hudson will just go happily to sleep, but it took Rudy exactly two nights to figure out it's a routine and he'll make a big stink if it even looks like you're thinking of forgetting. |
Twice a day. We don't want them to feel hungry later in the day since they always look so pathetic when it's our dinner time.  Mequpak almost never finishes his breakfast and I have no guilt taking it up and making him wait to dinner. I don't give him more at dinnertime either ...just his normal amount. |
| Oscar is the luckiest dog in the world. Due to the timing of the myriad of meds he takes, he gets fed FOUR times a day. Yup, four times. He eats at 5 a.m., 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. (They are pretty small meals.) Tracie, with Oscar's IBD, we also had trouble with Oscar vomiting bile when his tummy got too empty. That is when we started the 9 p.m. meal, and that has worked well for us. Also, Oscar takes 40 mg of Pepcid AC every day, which has really cut down on his general acidity. (Dogs are supposed to be more acidic than humans, in order to digest their food properly, but Oscar would burp up extremely acidic liquid since he was a pup. This has decreased dramatically once we started the Pepcid AC about five years ago.) The other switch we made that has helped Oscar tremendously was done completely by accident. When Oscar had pancreatitis for the second time in 2008, and it was time to introduce food again, my vets suggested starting with the canned version of his kibble, with a gradual transition back to the dry stuff. He tolerated the canned food so much better than the kibble that we never did switch back. He eats the canned, with a little kibble mixed in, and gets kibble for treats, and his digestion has never been better. My vets are thrilled. Since Oscar never chewed his kibble to begin with, he was never getting the teeth cleaning benefits of the dry food anyway. The canned is more calorie dense, so he eats less, but it has been a Godsend for us. Laurie and Oscar |
Oscar's Mom wrote: Oscar is the luckiest dog in the world. Due to the timing of the myriad of meds he takes, he gets fed FOUR times a day. Yup, four times. He eats at 5 a.m., 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. (They are pretty small meals.) The other switch we made that has helped Oscar tremendously was done completely by accident. When Oscar had pancreatitis for the second time in 2008, and it was time to introduce food again, my vets suggested starting with the canned version of his kibble, with a gradual transition back to the dry stuff. He tolerated the canned food so much better than the kibble that we never did switch back. He eats the canned, with a little kibble mixed in, and gets kibble for treats, and his digestion has never been better. My vets are thrilled. Since Oscar never chewed his kibble to begin with, he was never getting the teeth cleaning benefits of the dry food anyway. The canned is more calorie dense, so he eats less, but it has been a Godsend for us. Laurie and Oscar Yuki would turn on her daddy and be a mommy's girl if I fed her canned food.  ...or 4 times a day.  |
I am starting to wonder if I should feed at least Langley once a day. He doesn't seem to care about food. Not like Laika. He will lay there and watch her eat and when she finishes and moves towards his bowl he runs up and hovers over it but still doesn't eat. I usually have to pick it up and put it away because we have to get to work. So frustrating. So picky. He likes the goat when I give it to him just meat no veg. But when I give them the beef with veg. he turns up his nose. I cannot afford to feed him goat every day.  |
| Barney gets fed twice a day. In the AM around 7:30 (hopefully later on the weekends!) and then around 6:30 at night. And he scarfs it all down and then patrols the baby's highchair for droppings. |
| 2x a day here. They get one cup about 6:30 AM ( later on weekends ) and one cup ( sometimes 1/4 cup more ) in the PM at about 6 PM. They get a low calorie biscuit in the AM before I leave and another at bedtime.... My female scoffs down ehr food in a split second and looks for more. My male takes his time, walks around, looks to see if anything else is coming into the bowl, etc. I feed them seperately in the AM due to my schedule and at night they eat at the same time but seperated by a baby gate. Or the female will eat her's and his! |
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