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Originally Posted by lovmyyorkie  There was a story here of a pup that over ate and died. Some dogs don't know when to stop, my Buffy is like that and could over, over eat if I don't regulate her food.
Specially when its dry food. Yorkies will stop when they are "full" and 20 mins later the dry food expands and they are over stuffed, if they eat more then what their body can digest they will die from it. You can tell if you feel their stomach bloated and hard almost painful...thats a good sign of over eating .
I know a Yorkie mom that called me one morning crying because her Yorkie had been throwing up, went to the vet they stop the vomiting but vet. told her if it happen again she would have to think of putting him down because they thought it was from other health issues he has. I had never met her or ever talk to her before.
Long story short I told her it sound like he was over eating .....came to find out her BF said the same thing dogs know when to stop eating and don't die from over eating "Wrong" she follow my instructions and he has not vomited in 3 months. Needless to say we have become good friends.
I don't know why some dogs don't over eat and some do, but thats why we need to watch them if they get fat that can also cause other health issues.
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True true...
My Labrador would kill himself if he had access to unlimited food....
He tore into a bag that was just delivered and ate till he was full and spent the next hour vomiting... and we have had to reduce him to one cup feedings so he doesn't barf it up..
We can't free feed him like we do the girls....
For one.. Labs tend to over eat as it is and get fat.. he is a bit full.. Not at all fat, but pushing it! LOL
Now I adopted him from a Show Kennel when he was 2 a bit over years old... He had his championship and was at stud. He had attitude in the ring so he was not continued on towards his GC. He lived in a kennel at the Kennel.. when I say kennel.. I mean Crated 90% of his day.. let out to eat and go... So he scarfed down his food peed and pooed and back in the crate... and out for some breeding from time to time.. thats it.
He was conditioned to focus on food.. it was his only real highlight in the day... And he got only enough to keep him going really... strict portions.. nothing more, no treats, nothing.. When I got him home and gave him a lareger bowl of food he flipped out and scarfed it down and got Soooo sick!
I could have killed him! I had no idea... To this day I have to be soooo carefull about keeping the food up or he will over eat! But my little ones never had to worry about there not being enough so they never over ate... Thats the reason I can free feed them... I just have to put their food inside the Dog house that my Lab can't fit his head inside! LOL