Dog feeding

[fredpuli47]

At what intervals and at what times do you feed your adult dog? Is there a recommended time and interval? I seem to be giving mine their later feed later and later, by some inexorable process, which I'll change, but it did occur to me that there may be some 'perfect regime' under modern thinking.

[meltoadhall]

mine get breakfast around 8am and dinner around 6pm, sometimes a stuffed kong or treats at lunchtime.

[jules77]

Me the same, feed twice a day. Breakfast around 6am, and tea around 5pm.

Only give treats once or twice a week consisting of dog biscuits. I am such a cruel mom!!

[carmalee]

I used to feed my Border Collie once a day when she was younger - then we moved to twice a day about the same as the other two posts . Now she' s a very old lady, 18, blind, (selectively) deaf and arthritic, she has about five small meals a day, a couple of them stuffed in Kongs to keep her amused which seems to suit her much better.She still has a strong personality and enjoys sniffing around the farm so reckon it works for us.

[angiebaby57]

I have 2 Golden Retrievers....one aged 21 months and the other 10 years....I feed them at 7am and 7pm during the week and at 9am and 7pm at the weekend...they know exactly when I should be getting their meals together and the older one will arrive promptly at 7pm which a determined look and a waggy tail! Its strange how they lapse into a routine, for example with the later morning feeds at the weekend...they do not whine or bark and just know that when 9am comes round I will feed them...Its because I have a lie in and although my husband is up at 7am to let them out they NEVER go to him for food as he never feeds them! Both dogs are very intelligent! (and very loved!) Its all about what fits in with your general routine.

[wolf63]

Cats are easier - my two demand to be fed every time I move. During the night they just wake me up when the want fed.

:-)

[garner]

Yes my dogs get their food twice a day, they have treats throughout the day.As for the cats, they have their food when they say so, feed on demand with them I'm afraid.The g/pigs have fresh hay and food everyday and have what veg we are having on that day.

[bigmamma]

My two get a small breckie around 6.30 and their main meal around 5pm . The puppy gets a chew or other treat at lunchtime and they both get a dentastick in the evening a couple of nights a week .

[lankeela]

My four get fed when I am ready to feed them - usually around teatime, but if we are out at a show or I am at work then they get fed when I get home. One is the 'spokesdog' and will let me know if he thinks I have forgotten to feed them. They always have a bowl of dry food down so they can snack if they want to, and one of them will have a good nosh in the mornings, but the three older ones don't bother. I leave them with some Markies or Gravy Bones if I go out, and something like Paddywack, pigs ears or marrow bones are always around during the day.

[fredpuli47]

Thanks everyone. Lankeela, I have a spokesdog too! It's the Yorkie bitch, who not only comes up and yaps when she claims to be hungry but, if ignored, goes through a little mime of chewing, followed by making a great show of hunting round, turning over newspapers on the floor, as though she's hidden food and is looking for it. Daft devil! .