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Post by needmysanity on Jan 24, 2020 22:21:09 GMT
We feed Stella one cup on the morning and one at night. Dogs will eat if they are hungry so if he is not eating the kibble he is probably holding out for the good stuff (chicken).
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Post by needmysanity on Jan 24, 2020 22:22:29 GMT
My dog spends approximately 2 minutes out of 24 hours eating, and the other 23 hours and 58 minutes looking for something else to eat. She eats twice a day and exactly the amount the vet says she should have based on her size, so she's not starving. She's just very food motivated. I can't imagine any food sitting out waiting for her to eat! That's Stella too! You would think she is starving by the way she begs for us to give her food.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 24, 2020 23:17:31 GMT
Twice a day. Before we got our newest lab, we would just leave the poodle’s food out for her to nibble on and just refill the bowl every few days. But that’s not an option anymore because any food left out anywhere would be immediately hoovered up by the lab and the little one would starve to death. I’ve tried feeding her when we feed him, but she’s far too nervous to be anywhere near him when she’s eating. So we feed him first (and his food is gone in about 2.5 seconds even though he has a “slow feeder”—yeah, right) and then I feed her separately in a different room with the door closed. She has about 15-20 minutes or so to eat what she wants and when she’s done she just walks away and I pick up her bowl with whatever is left in it and give it back to her at dinner time, adding more to it as needed. They both have access to water all day.
The side benefit of all this is that it’s so much easier to predict when she needs to go out and she has had way less accidents in the house since we stopped letting her graze all day long.
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Post by Lexica on Jan 24, 2020 23:22:15 GMT
Gravity, I buy the large bags of frozen chicken from Costco. I’ve done the strips and the boneless skinless breasts and both work well. I tried the thighs once and I didn’t like the amount of fat on them. It left my dehydrator really greasy. I have a dehydrator from Excalibur ( excaliburdehydrator.com/ ) where you can adjust the time as well as the temperature on it. I put a few of the frozen chicken breasts, enough to fill my trays up once sliced, into the refrigerator in a ziplock bag to thaw a bit, but I do not let them thaw completely. They slice better if they are a little bit icy still. Once they are thawed enough, I slice them in my food processor using the thinnest blade I have. I fill each tray leaving a little bit of room between the pieces - just enough so they are not touching. The chicken slices shrink up when dehydrating so you want to fill the trays well at the start. Then it is just a matter of turning it on and walking away. After a number of hours, your house will Begin to smell of cooked chicken and your dog will watch you every time you enter your kitchen. Check the trays for dryness. The chicken strips should be very firm and easily broken into pieces. If they are flexible, they are probably not dry enough. I would rather have them a little over dry than possibly uncooked. Since I make such huge batches, I package mine into smaller portions and store them in vacuum sealed Foodsaver bags, but a ziplock in the refrigerator is fine too. My dog is smallish, 10 pounds, so I usually break up the slices of dried chicken into small pieces before packaging them. I have considered just using the grinding blade of my food processor to grind the raw chicken up small and then spooning it onto the trays and spreading it thin to dry. It would be a faster process to get it from whole pieces to the trays, but would imagine it would take longer to dehydrate since there wouldn’t be any space between as there is in slices for air to circulate around the chicken. I will probably try it next time to see if it works. Especially since I break the slices up anyway.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jan 24, 2020 23:44:00 GMT
When I got my first dog, the breeder told me to feed him twice a day, morning and night, and to leave dry food for him to nibble on during the day. My in-laws only fed their similar sized dog once a day, so when they were doggy sitting for us my boy only got fed once a day as well! They now feed their dog twice a day.
I know people who only feed their dogs once a day, and the dogs are perfectly healthy and happy, but I just couldn't do it. Perhaps I'm reflecting my hunger feelings too! I'd prefer to feed them two smaller meals. Maybe just a small amount of dry food in the morning (a low calorie one if you're worried about his weight) and then some chicken and more dry food at night, but a smaller quantity than you do now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 23:45:35 GMT
Never changed.
I have 2 shih tzus and they are fed AM and PM. Each a little less than 1/2 cup of their dry food and some wet food that I use to make a gravy with to help with their coat/fur.
That was recommended when I was a little kid for our family dogs (mix, bassett, and shih tzu) though they all had different amounts given and what the dogs vet recommended now.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jan 24, 2020 23:50:33 GMT
I have a dehydrator from Excalibur ( excaliburdehydrator.com/ ) where you can adjust the time as well as the temperature on it. I put a few of the frozen chicken breasts, enough to fill my trays up once sliced, into the refrigerator in a ziplock bag to thaw a bit, but I do not let them thaw completely. They slice better if they are a little bit icy still. Gravity I make my own chicken treats too, but I don't have a dehydrator so I cook them in the oven. I freeze the chicken slightly, then slice them as thin as possible. Sometimes I make a paste using low sodium soy sauce and peanut butter which I spread on the chicken before baking. (I got the recipe from a doggie cookbook.) Then I cook them on the lowest temperature for 6-8 hours, turning them once halfway through.
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Post by alexa11 on Jan 24, 2020 23:58:12 GMT
I didn't vote because Louis is a strange child. I put his dog food in bowl in the morning but he rarely touches it until I add his ground turkey and cheese around lunchtime. He'll eat that and may eat a little of the kibble as well. At night when I eat- because of my mom feeding him when she moved in-he gets a few cucumbers or green beans. Then he goes back to his bowl and cleans it out.
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Post by theroadlesstraveledp on Jan 25, 2020 1:46:22 GMT
I used to feed them twice a day. I have a medium sized terrier and a standard doxie. They are both 5 years old. But now they’ve both decided that they only want to eat a mix of wet and dry food together once a day. So we feed them once a day.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jan 25, 2020 3:07:23 GMT
We feed three times a day. We have 1 - 3 different people that feed them depending on schedules. Our dogs lie and like to tell whoever just got home that they were not fed. By dividing their food into thirds, if they get an extra feeding now it’s not as bad as when it was twice a day (1/3 vs 1/2) We also have a white board that we are supposed to mark which meals they’ve had, but some in my family forget that too! Feeding three times a day works well for us as every 3 - 4 years we seem to always have a new puppy! We currently have a 8 yr old, 5 yr old and 5 month old.
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Jan 25, 2020 4:30:07 GMT
Not dogs, but cats. 3 times a day. We started 3 times a day when we still had one of our elderly cats and he was supposed to eat more often, so everybody got to eat more often. Once he was gone, popular opinion was that 3 meals a day were staying. Some of them eat all 3 meals, some of them just have a nibble at one or 2 of the meals, but everybody is presented with a meal 3 times a day. If nothing else, it keeps DH to a schedule in his retirement!
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Post by Patter on Jan 25, 2020 11:54:42 GMT
Our Papillon eats breakfast and dinner. Our rough collies eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They are at high risk for bloat so we take their daily amount and divide it up into three meals each day. They also eat out of slow feeders, and they don't go out to play for at least an hour after eating.
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Post by hannahruth on Jan 25, 2020 14:55:06 GMT
I chose once a day but there is always a bowl with kibble available and then his meal at night. He is very picky with food and some days he doesn't seem to eat at all - but I feed him and if he doesn't eat then I don't leave it out overnight.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 15:13:02 GMT
She was a free feeder, dump the bag of food into the hog feeder and wait until it was empty to put more food in. But no scraps ever went into the house garbage. No food out on the counter. Those were free game to her.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 17:28:19 GMT
My little ridiculousness won't eat unless we're in the same room w/her. So, sometimes, her kibble will go untouched for a half-day until we can be w/her again.
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Post by pinklady on Jan 25, 2020 17:49:31 GMT
Feed my bulldog a cup of kibble at 7am and a cup at 5pm. She also gets a handful of veggies (cucumbers, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, etc) for lunch around noon.
I can’t leave food out or she’d eat herself until she exploded. She’s obsessed with all food.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jan 25, 2020 18:50:08 GMT
Our Papillon eats breakfast and dinner. Our rough collies eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They are at high risk for bloat so we take their daily amount and divide it up into three meals each day. They also eat out of slow feeders, and they don't go out to play for at least an hour after eating. I forgot about that benefit of feeding less, more often! Both Samoyeds and GSDs are at high risk to bloat also. The puppy has a huge rock in his dish to slow him down. My Samoyed breeder puts water on her kibble when she feeds because of the risk of bloat. We still add water too. She soaks her kibble before feeding but I don’t. Our two older dogs only get 1/3 of a cup at each feeding and the puppy only gets 1/2 at each meal. Yes we feed light because of all their between meal snacks and training treats
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Post by huskergal on Jan 25, 2020 19:48:09 GMT
I feed my 12 year old Maltese a 1/2 cup of kibble in the morning. He sometimes eats it. He will nibble on it here and there. Just depends. I give him a tray of Little Caesar wet food for dinner. I put it on top of the kibble. He will finish it all.
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