Ok, here is my dilemma. We have 4 sets of paws. (1) 9 year old cocker, (1) 13 year old toy poodle, and (2) 3 year old yorkies. The poodle and yorkies free feed. The cocker does not. This hasn't been a big problem in the past but lately, the cocker wants to eat everything!!! she is getting FAT LOL. It's driving me nuts because I put the food down and give her a chewy to distract her for a while so the other babies can have a chance at some nibble time. well, they aren't interested in eating right away and don't seem to understand the urgency of it
So...Daisy comes back in the room and devours all of the food. The only solution I have been able to come up with (because training these other 3 dogs to eat on a schedule is just out of the question) is to put a gate in the doggie room upstairs and put their food in there where daisy can't get to it. The problem with that is that they will all have to be closed off in the room for a while at various times of the day in order to get to the food and have a chance to eat, meanwhile keeping daisy out of it.
maybe I should clarify that the cocker used to free feed. But for some reason over the last several months, she has slowly become a piggy and wants to eat all of her food in one sitting.
I have no idea why this seems so difficult...there HAS to be a better solution!!! Any ideas??? Daisy is eating me out of house and home!!!