Eating off the floor

[jpb1971]

My babies are weird. I free feed them...they have their food in their bowls...yesterday...I went to get them some treats and Maximus the youngest jumped up and landed on one of the bowls and the food went everywhere...and they went crazy...eating all the food that was on the floor. I was like...ok...this is weird...so I put more food on the floor and they ate every last piece.

Is this normal?

[Neecy]

Mackenzie does the same thing..she'd rather I place pieces of food on the floor for her to attack one by one, then eat out of her bowl

[Stitches29]

I do believe that everything with a Yorkie is normal. Maggie's favorite dish to eat out of is MY cupped hand. Haven't figured out how to hold her water for her in my hand.

[lily's mom]

Stiches - your avatar is so cute!!!!!!! I love it!

[Stitches29]

Thank you Dawn. I have tried and tried to get a close up of Maggie, but all she wants to do is lick the lens. So I decided to take this route until I can glue Maggie's butt to the floor.

[michaelgatl]

Jerry likes to get hand fed like that sometimes...but he'll make a game out of it where he pushes it to me I psuh it back and he eats it

[DiOrGiRLy]

Tiny does that too or else he likes for me to spoon feed him, i dont see anything wrong with it maybe they just like walking around and 'hunting' for food instead of having it put out for them.

[daisysmom]

Originally Posted by jpb1971

My babies are weird. I free feed them...they have their food in their bowls...yesterday...I went to get them some treats and Maximus the youngest jumped up and landed on one of the bowls and the food went everywhere...and they went crazy...eating all the food that was on the floor. I was like...ok...this is weird...so I put more food on the floor and they ate every last piece.

Is this normal?

If you don't want that to be a habit, I'd say try to keep the food in the bowl. We started to do that to our Mini Schnauzer when we first got her in fact we'd play a game with her where we'd slide a nugget across the floor and she'd chase after it and ate it and thought it was the best thing ever. Well we got lazy and started to put her food on the floor since it was easier for her to access, now that she's older that is only how she'll eat it. If we put her food in a bowl she will go dump it with her nose all over the floor and eat it like that. I use to think it was cute now it's annoying because of the crumbs all over the floor and it's just messy and the yorkies try to eat it(she's on a special diet). I'm slowly trying to get her to go back and eat out of the bowl. If she tries to dump her food, I'll take it away scoop up any of the fallen pieces and tell her no and won't give it back to her for 5-10 min. It's a slow process but she's learning.

My yorkies love to be hand fed...in fact to the point where Pochi won't eat unless I feed it to him by hand. He can get so lazy even with dog treats, he won't eat them unless I break it up into bite sized pieces for him(which is my fault since I started doing that for him and so does everyone else in the family). I'm trying to stop doing that for him since he's been getting such bad tartar build up on his teeth and they say have him chew on a greenie or such and of course he wouldn't do that unless l broke it up for him. Now that we have 2 other yorks running around competing for treats he more often will break up his own treats himself.

Look at how we cater to our babies. hehe