Do you have a hearty eater?

[Pookie1w]

He does the same with the oven. When the timer dings, he makes a beeline to the kitchen just waiting to see what Mama made.

[Patti]

Pookie is adorable. All 3 of mine are little piggies. Cali will finish her food in the kitchen and go over to Roxie's plate to see if she can steal her food. Then she runs into the bedroom where I feed Pixie and try and eat her food.

[mimimomo]

Originally Posted by Patti

Pookie is adorable. All 3 of mine are little piggies. Cali will finish her food in the kitchen and go over to Roxie's plate to see if she can steal her food. Then she runs into the bedroom where I feed Pixie and try and eat her food.

Loll Cali sounds like Momo...he tries to steal everyone's food. Turbo & Princess growls @ him so he automatically runs to Mimi but I'm there to protect her. Sometimes he'll bark by the door to distract her but she doesn't get fooled twice.

[SWHouston]

I'm not sure if I'd call my guys hearty eaters, but, they (have 4) do consume a lot. I have several kinds (Beef/Foul/Sea) of Food out for them 24/7 and they go through several (2 cup) bowls per week.

[1956snowflake]

I have a 2 year old ,Pippa , she will let us know she needs to go outside, but before we get her hooked up on her tie out she goes into a feeding frenzie like it's her last meal and will never get food again

[Verbena]

Pookie is such a cutie. You are very lucky . . . . Oh please can you send him to my house ! I would love for him to teach Galen to eat. I have the opposite. I would stand on my head if I could get him to eat.

[Cherie6446]

Zoey and Jackson are good eaters. Since Zoey has had pancreatitis twice she is on a 1% fat food. She gobbles it up and I started giving her Royal Canin 1% fat kibble at night and you would think she was auditioning for a hungry dog commercial. She eats fat free treats like they were candy. No eating problems here.

[celstu1]

What a cutie he is!!! awwwww love him!

I have 2 boys and I think my smaller boy at 6.5 lbs (current winter weight is 7.2lbs) is a hound. He does not eat his meals. He waits none too patiently for handouts! My bigger boy eats his meals but does not do much begging for people food at all. I don't understand why he's the bigger one! LOL

[_Chrissy_]

While Mickey is a "grazer", I am totally convinced if I put the entire bag of food down, Max would eat it until he physically could eat no more.
He eats his food then waits for Mickey to finish his to see if he left even a crumb.

[SWHouston]

Ha, "grazer" that's cute, I use terms like gobblers and nibblers.

But, I believe that compulsive eating is a learned behavior. When I get a new pup, it finds that food is out 24/7, and, that the senior animals here don't "gobble" it up because they were raised the same way. I admit that this doesn't say much toward corrective actions, but it may be of use for someone just starting off with a new dog.

[Joyce Adams]

I free feed both of my dogs, Miss Priss the yorkie and Yoshi the pekingese, Priss isn't picky at all and Yoshi used to be the pickiest eater i have ever seen,,Miss Priss will eat just about anything and Yoshi will not..she even likes dill pickles..LOL I admit she is heavy and solid but doesn't look it at all, does that make sense?

[kimp5]

Jess has not met a food that she doesn't love...
carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, salmon (she got coho wild salmon the other day you would have thought it was a pint of haggen daz. She swooned..
steak chicken rice she is an equal opportunity eater....

[gemy]

I have been blessed with hearty eaters, even the Yorkie I am pet sitting is a hearty eater. And yes they all go around and check out each others bowls after meal time. They are always disappointed.

Magic my big male, licks the Stainless steel bowls so clean you could have sworn they had been washed.

I am not a fan of free feeding. I pre-measure and weigh out their food, I do this now, because I have found that my eye is not a good measurement tool.

The new puppy we are getting will be on three meals a day for the next month, so what I will do, is divide the adult dogs meals in three, so that they all get to have three meals a day.

Then they will all go back to two meals a day.

Their food amounts are adjusted for exercise levels. On a heavy exercise day everyone gets three meals.

Their training they do get food and toy rewards for, so I cut up the food treats very small. I usually use a mix of carrots, fresh meat cooked, small very small pieces of lowfat cheese. In a 1/2 hour training session multiple pieces of treats are used.

[susan lynn]

I have 4 Yorkies, weighing from 7 lbs to 20 lbs, Hobbes will eat any and everything! He has been in the Teapot club for a long time

[Princessangela3]

Sherman Tanks eats EVERYTHING....he has never met a human food he won't eat....he is very well trained because he's a food motivated learner.....my yorkies are free fed their kibble and eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Sherman hangs out right around 20 pounds.......ever last bit of him is love bug!!