Do you have a hearty eater?
 

I do. I'm considering entering Rico in a competitive eating contest :D. He eats his, tries to eat Coco's, then patiently waits in the kitchen to see what's coming out of the oven. He's currently 7.5 lbs, tall, long and lean. I'm waiting for his first birthday to submit his teapot application. :p

Here's my handsome boy:

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This is one of my favorite pix of him

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Morgan is a very good eater

Gosh, darn he is CUTE! I have hearty eaters.....3 of them! My three would eat the kitchen sink if they could! LOL When people talk about picky eaters, I really don't understand as mine always are begging and eat all their kibble. One is barely 3 pounds and she would eat until she burst!

I know! If there's food to eat, you could throw all the balls you want and squeak every toy in the house, he could care less about playing. On the flip side, at least my picky eater has learned she better eat her share cause the "Vacuum" has his eye on her bowl!

That's a handsome pup! Our old man was sorta picky when we first got him 6 months ago but once we found food he liked, stand by and out of his way when it's feeding time. LOL

LOL love this picture! Teddy sleeps like this too... Rico is a cutie!

Adorable!!

My boys are both really good eaters. When I said this to our vet, he laughed. He doesn't understand that in the Yorkie community, it's a big deal. :D;):)

I think Gizmo goes beyond hearty eater :-) its probably due to the person I rescued him from, that was starving him to try to make him a micro by stunting his growth. He will eat pretty much anything and we have to put him in his pen at our meal time, or we will end up with a yorkie in our food lol. He is totally food obsessed which is kind of sad, to think what must be in his mind to feel like he has to hurry and eat everything available, because I think he's worried about starving again, he even hides food and treats in a bunch of different places, i think just in case. We've gone through a couple different brands of food though, because he seems to get tired of them, so we switch back and forth between royal canine and wellness for kibble. Right now he's back to eating his royal canine yorkie kibble, mixed with half of commercial Raw. He really seems to love this combo. He will also ration his pee to get more treats, than if he just did one big pee and got one treat :-) today he ate both of his regular meals, snacked a bit on my husbands apple, ate the carrots out of hubby's dinner salad, along with a few pieces of lettuce, had many tiny pieces of treats for potty on the pad and out for a little walk (since he learned how to pee less and more times, I have learned to give tiny pieces of his treats to account for this lol), and he had half a sweet potato and pumpkin teething ring from n-bone, which are amazing for teething pups. That's just to give you an idea of what his daily eating habits are :-) the vet said all his bloodwork is perfect and he is super healthy at 5.2 lbs and will be 7 months old on the 5th or 6th of jan. :-) I couldn't believe he ate all that with just having 5 baby teeth pulled just the evening before last as well as getting fixed and microchipped, he's definitely back to himself !!!!!

So yes my Gizmo far out weighs the hearty eater lol, but I always make sure everything is healthy he eats and never eats anything bad for him. Oh and I also hide little bits of kibble through out the house as he likes to search for food, and that is the only way he will eat the kibble by itself hahaha. My husband is mostly to blame for the sharing of salad and such, because Gizmo has him wrapped around his little paw. I tell my husband to stop it, and he says well let him look at you with those eyes and say no lol. I actually do exactly that, I tell him no, but hubby is creating a monster I think. I do give him frozen veggies as well :-) the vet did say his BMI is perfect though, so who am I to complain right? It's by far better than the situation I rescued him from starving, and I don't think he will ever lose that food obsession because of it.

Callie is a very picky eater but my moms rescue yorkie is piggy boy we kinda wonder if he was not fed well before we got him. He always eats too nothing stops him. Callie and Sammy always get a little boiled chicken on Sunday for there Sunday snack and when my grandma is cutting it up he will make these squeaking noises like someone is killing him. The funny thing is it is only when there is chicken being cut up.

Kaji is a very good eater. I might venture as far as saying he's an over eater. I measure his food otherwise he turns into a porky Yorkie. We can't have that with his bad knees!! :( there can be no mention of food or any meal time names without Kaji being excited and racing you to the kitchen. Kaji is ALWAYS ready to eat. Strangely, he is picky if that makes any sense. Kaji does not go for any dog treats, like the milk bones or whatever generic treat is out there. Kaji prefers cucumbers, lettuce, raspberries, all sorts of fruits and veggies, fruitables, freeze dried Stella and chewy treats, and some liver cookies from trader joe's. Other than that, he won't touch anything that is dog food outside of his kibble.

Rico is adorable. The Teapot Club anxiously awaits his first birthday.

I have 2 good eaters. They check each other's bowl when theirs is finished but always walk away disappointed. I always arrributed it to regular mealtimes and no free feeding.

Ian should have been named Hoover, Kirby, or Dyson! He is not picky when it comes to food, and would over-eat if we were not careful! We have to measure all of his food, and only give fresh veggie treats. Our first fur baby, Prince, was very picky and had to be hand fed...by his daddy. For some reason, he would not eat from me. I guess we all have our designated roles.
We use a Kong Wobbler for his kibble to slow down his eating.

What's really funny is the sec someone makes a move for the kitchen, he's right there. The cutest is when the fridge is open, he's right between your legs looking around as if he were thinking "um, what snack should I have? What could I reach?" LOL. Love him to pieces!

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.

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.:D

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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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....;)

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.

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;)

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!!