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destrekor
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What is in its mouth?! :laugh:
Those dogs always look so sad. It's kind of comical, then I gotta wonder how one tells when they are happy (I realize it'll be body language and tail, but still... some dogs say it in their eyes and face, these dogs never look anything but sad with their big ol' bug eyes.
). But I've never owned one, and don't really care too... too small. But they are cool dogs.
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it's kibble
one of my tricks for her is to hold food in her mouth, until she's given the OK to go ahead and eat it. youtube HD video of this soon!
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Originally posted by: AkumaX
it's kibble
one of my tricks for her is to hold food in her mouth, until she's given the OK to go ahead and eat it. youtube HD video of this soon!
Have a brother who places treats on his dogs nose and she will hold it there forever looking so sad until you tell her it's ok to eat it.
Some people are just so cruel.
Originally posted by: Newbian
Originally posted by: AkumaX
it's kibble
one of my tricks for her is to hold food in her mouth, until she's given the OK to go ahead and eat it. youtube HD video of this soon!
Have a brother who places treats on his dogs nose and she will hold it there forever looking so sad until you tell her it's ok to eat it.
Some people are just so cruel.
yeah, this is basically an off-shoot of that... she has no nose!
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Originally posted by: AkumaX
Originally posted by: Newbian
Originally posted by: AkumaX
it's kibble
one of my tricks for her is to hold food in her mouth, until she's given the OK to go ahead and eat it. youtube HD video of this soon!
Have a brother who places treats on his dogs nose and she will hold it there forever looking so sad until you tell her it's ok to eat it.
Some people are just so cruel.
yeah, this is basically an off-shoot of that... she has no nose!
I know... all those species of dogs have been stepped on one to many times.
Have a cousin with one and they do kind of freak you out when they stare at you.
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We adopted a pug this summer and she is CRAZY. She is perfectly fine, except for food. She goes crazy berserk inhales her whole bowl in about 3 seconds and then tries to steal the other dog's food.
Yours seems more calm.
Yours seems more calm.
I trained her (since we got her @ 10 weeks) that she can't have food until we give the OK. Even though they smell it and its in front of their face, just restrain them until they show constraint
edit: although i'll have to agree with the 'inhalation of food' part.. i get worried that in old age, this might be a problem. any way to for a dog to eat food slower?
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Originally posted by: AkumaX
I trained her (since we got her @ 10 weeks) that she can't have food until we give the OK. Even though they smell it and its in front of their face, just restrain them until they show constraint
edit: although i'll have to agree with the 'inhalation of food' part.. i get worried that in old age, this might be a problem. any way to for a dog to eat food slower?
It's all about how you raise them around food.
I think it's all about consistency and order to the dog.
Both my family's old dog and our current dog have been the same way: eat at the pace they want to, even if that means not finishing the bowl and coming back later in the day.
I don't remember my first dog as a puppy and how my family fed her, was only 1 when we got her.
Our current dog though, we started her with a bowl before my parents went to work, and a bowl when they came home. As usual, the main part is to have control over a puppy's potty training. Puppies basically have to take a shit pretty soon after eating, so this was a way to manage her by being around when she had to go, so that she could learn that she can go outside when she lets us know, and that outside is where she must do it.
But now, because we've kept the schedule going, she's learning her food will always be there. Dogs have an instinct, like man would if we were in any kind of similar situation, specifically in the wild, or if we were kept as pets
, that you eat whatever you can when food is available. This is instinct for animals no matter what. Food is put in front of you only so often, and when you start this schedule, you're hungry as hell, so you chow down. Next time food is available you hungry as hell again, so you chow. Do this for long enough, the dog gets used to the fact that she doesn't need to worry about food not being available. An animal's body learns that it doesn't need to stuff face if it isn't starving, so it eats what it feels it needs at that very moment, even if that means food is left over. What matters is they see that food is still there next time they look at the food, even if they are only getting a drink of water at the time. It's a trust thing for a dog. Our dogs have always just nibbled at what they wanted, and come back to eat more at some point in the day. We still give her food two times a day, and sometimes she hasn't even finished her first bowl, so we don't give her a full second serving. Keeps her at a healthy weight.
My first dog, as she got old, started only eating one bowl a day. Sometimes she wouldn't even finish one bowl through the course of a day and it'd be there for the next day. Then again, we didn't portion the meal. We basically just filled the bowl and let her eat what she wanted when she wanted, and filled the bowl when it was empty. And she still got extremely skinny, but that was because she was slowly falling apart. Very slowly. Lived to 17 but I swear that dog was skinny my whole life, those most vividly I really only remember maybe her last 10 years. When a dog is 8, 9, 10, they are already basically 'old'. She just lived forever for a dog. Somehow. Mutts... they break the laws of nature.
You're right. I didn't train her, I conditioned her. Hopefully her appetite won't be as huge later on, but for now she'll be wolfing it down like crazy
Her brothers and sisters are like that. They have a ton of food out 1x a day in a big bowl, and eat whenever. We have to be careful when we bring our dog over
Also, its weird. We recently switched her to 1x a day. However, she still craps at every 12 hr mark (+/-1). Usually around ~6am and ~6pm do we take her for #2. She eats around ~6pm now
Her brothers and sisters are like that. They have a ton of food out 1x a day in a big bowl, and eat whenever. We have to be careful when we bring our dog over
Also, its weird. We recently switched her to 1x a day. However, she still craps at every 12 hr mark (+/-1). Usually around ~6am and ~6pm do we take her for #2. She eats around ~6pm now
We have a Lab so it's gonna eat everything and it's gonna eat it now. Labs aren't know to be nibblers or grazers, they eat everything that is set in front of them in one setting.
He is trained to not eat until given permission and if anyone walks by and gets near him or the bowl while he is eating, he has been trained to back up and wait until they are gone. It's the same with his toys, anyone can grab them right out of his mouth. He has been trained to have no toy aggression. Even my 3YO can get toys out of his mouth by saying "out".
In order to slow down eating, as a pup we put his kibble on a cookie sheet.
He is trained to not eat until given permission and if anyone walks by and gets near him or the bowl while he is eating, he has been trained to back up and wait until they are gone. It's the same with his toys, anyone can grab them right out of his mouth. He has been trained to have no toy aggression. Even my 3YO can get toys out of his mouth by saying "out".
In order to slow down eating, as a pup we put his kibble on a cookie sheet.
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