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Originally Posted by journey826  I understand your problem.
I started free feeding yesterday and they ate every piece.
today they drank all the water and ate all the food and they were so full they were bursting.
I am not feeding them again today.I am afraid they could die.
maybe in a couple days it will even out as they see the food is always there.
I don't think I can go through this though.
good luck
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it is so hard to know what to do to make this transition....
I thought "maybe if I keep food in the bowls all the time, they will realize that it is always there and not scarf it down" but they are eating sooooooooo much. all day long, they are snacking at the bowls. in the last 2 days, maggie has eaten 4 days worth of food!!!! I try distracting them and playing with them, but every chance they get, they are at the food bowl. so I just don't know. dh thinks that they will get used to the food being out all the time and not do this after a few days but I don't know. maggie looks like she is about to burst open!!!!
we had an idea (kinda like what someone posted earlier) to take her daily amount of food and just break it up into several feedings throughout the day...but I don't know if that will accomplish what we are trying to do. but seriously...I think maggie will eat herself to death....she just lost all this weight and got down to an "ideal weight"...she is going to get so fat and burst right open..I swear it. so i really don't know how to get her to adjust.
she isn't eating the food like she used to. she isn't scarfing it down. she is eating it slowly...and even grabbing a kibble or 2 and bringing them into the living room, eating them, then going to get some more...and so on. so she is eating slowly...but she is eating all day long and eating a LOT.
I want to stick with it and am sure they will eventually catch on...but in the mean time, maggie is going to eat herself to death
