How do you feed 2 dogs when one eats super fast?

Maybe take the fast dog outside so the slow dog can be leisurely with the stress of scratching at the door. Put the old dog in the mud room to eat slowly and have the new dog run freely in the house. Sit with the new dog in the mud room and entertain him when he's done so he doesn't scratch.

That is a good question. The suggestion from milocat is a good one though. Oddly, we had a chocolate lab that we would just leave food out for and he would eat when he wanted. We now have 2 yellow labs and both eat very quick, we call them Hoovers.

I would imagine your chocolate will eat when hungry enough. Sorry, this is a tough one for sure.

I’d feed the slow eater several small meals through the day at set times and quit the free feeding.

We dogs a slow eater. He has learned to eat faster when he is at my house. I think with time your slow eater might eat faster.

Microchip dog bowls. I know they have them for small pets so you’d have to see if they have them for larger dogs.

Essentially a chip goes on one dog’s collar and the food bowl has a cover on it that only opens when he walks up to it. It’s covered at all other times. The grazer can still graze and the speed eater can’t get to it.

We had that problem too when we got our newest lab. The poodle was happy nibbling at her food all day (which in itself was problematic because then her potty times would be unpredictable and she will NOT bark or whine when she needs to go out). The lab literally gobbles all his food in spite of having a slow feeder bowl, and then would seek out the other dog’s food and gobble that too. It’s been a challenge.

We feed them in separate rooms, and the little dog won’t eat until/unless she has a human (namely me) that will guard her while she eats because the big dog is 15 times bigger than she is. For a dog that doesn’t have housebreaking issues, it sounds like that microchip bowl would be the way to go. It wouldn’t work for us because I’m afraid if he can eat whenever she wants, my little dog would revert back to having near daily accidents and that also doesn’t work for me.

ETA: One other option for us would be to get an indoor zone thing for our Invisible Fence which would work, but the zone thing we currently have is battery operated and when the batteries in it go dead all bets are off.

 One of those slow dog food bowl s that looks like a maze might slow down your gobbler enough.

if you just adopted this super-fast eater, do you know anything about that dog's background? Is the new dog super-thin, like they weren't properly nourished? (I'm trying to think of reasons for the super-fast eating...) It sounds like he or she might also have some 'food insecurity' issues, with the fast eating and the trying to get at the other dog's food, or had to compete for food with other dogs in the past.

In addition to trying to get the slow eater to speed up a little, maybe you should look into doing some things that can (eventually) slow the fast eater down so dinnertime isn't so frantic for the new dog.

One of our dogs had a brain tumor that caused partial facial paralysis; I had to feed her by hand, just a few kibbles at a time. Could you do something like that with your new dog, to slow him/her down?

or scatter kibbles out on a cookie sheet, covered with squeaky toys, balls, etc. to make the kibbles harder to access?  You'd have to re-fill the cookie sheet a couple times to get to the entire meal amount, but eating off the cookie sheet makes the dog HAVE to pick up only a couple kibbles at a time.  

A small amount of kibbles in each compartment of a muffin tin?

And make sure you have set meal times, so the dog eventually realizes that 2x/day, like clockwork, they WILL get food. Or even more frequent, smaller meals, so the dog doesn't get overly 'hangry' and crazy at mealtime.

And there are different types of slow-feeder bowls that have more compartments, smaller compartments, etc.  There are also these Snuffle Mats that allow you to kind of 'hide' the kibbles in between the 'shag' of the mat and would make it take longer to eat. (as long as the dog wouldn't chew up the mat...)


(Although our puppies are still crazy every mealtime, like they've never seen food before in their life- lol. But they're still puppies, and a big part of the crazy is because one of them was the runt of the litter so he DID have previous food competition issues.)