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lilgidget 01-23-2020 12:19 PM

Feeding Schedule
 
I'm wanting to get Gidget on a regular meal schedule. Up until now, she's been "grazing" all day long. I'd like to get her on a morning and evening meal schedule. What is the latest you feed the evening meal. Do you give any kind of treat at bedtime.

aweitzm1 01-23-2020 12:46 PM

I feed mine twice a day mostly between 5 am - 8 am in the morning based on when I go to work and in the evening around 6 pm. However if I am home they want to eat earlier no later than 5 pm.

They love their routine and know when to wake me up when it is feeding time. The hardest part is when the clocks change because they don't know the time difference.

Mike_and_Me 01-23-2020 01:23 PM

Mike eats 3 times on schedule, dinner is around 8 pm and I save few pieces of kibble to give him before bed. If I don't give it he wakes up earlier for food. I think schedule is great for appetite stimulation.

Lovetodream88 01-23-2020 01:24 PM

I'm a big fan of free feeding. I have at least 2 that are pickers and would never eat enough if I tried to limit it to certain times a day. I'm sure its possible but just not something I'm into. I kinda liken it to if I'm hungry between meals I can go get a snack but they can't. Also I think Penny was not given much food when she was with her previous owners so she kinda goes into a panic if there is not food.

aweitzm1 01-23-2020 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88 (Post 4798418)
I'm a big fan of free feeding. I have at least 2 that are pickers and would never eat enough if I tried to limit it to certain times a day. I'm sure its possible but just not something I'm into. I kinda liken it to if I'm hungry between meals I can go get a snack but they can't. Also I think Penny was not given much food when she was with her previous owners so she kinda goes into a panic if there is not food.

I would love to free feed but Thumper is a food hog and does not know when to stop. He will eat the entire bag if I allowed it :)

Mike_and_Me 01-23-2020 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by aweitzm1 (Post 4798419)
I would love to free feed but Thumper is a food hog and does not know when to stop. He will eat the entire bag if I allowed it :)

Same here! No self control around food :)

matese 01-23-2020 01:55 PM

Cody eats at 6AM and 4PM, at 8PM he gets a treat after he has gone through all his commands and tricks. I do this because all commands and tricks are not used everyday, to keep everything fresh in his brain we go through it all nightly.

Schedules with dogs are the best way to go and dogs like routines ;)

Lovetodream88 01-23-2020 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by aweitzm1 (Post 4798419)
I would love to free feed but Thumper is a food hog and does not know when to stop. He will eat the entire bag if I allowed it :)

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Originally Posted by Mike_and_Me (Post 4798421)
Same here! No self control around food :)

It doesn’t work for every dog but mine do very well with it. At first Penny was that way but she learned she would never go without food again.

lilgidget 01-23-2020 02:48 PM

My first Yorkie was a grazer and it worked fine for him; however, he didn't go with me everywhere I went during the day. Gidget does so her grazing doesn't usually start until 2 or 3:00 in the afternoon. Sometimes, I leave the house around 1:00 and don't get back until 6 or 7:00, which means she hasn't had anything to eat since the night before. Don't like that idea at all. So, I put her food out this morning (1/2 her daily amount). She finally ate it around 3:00. Put the other 1/2 out and will take it up at 8:00 even if she hasn't eaten it all. Will be rough for a couple of days but she'll soon learn to eat the food when it's out because it might not be there later.

Lovetodream88 01-23-2020 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by lilgidget (Post 4798430)
My first Yorkie was a grazer and it worked fine for him; however, he didn't go with me everywhere I went during the day. Gidget does so her grazing doesn't usually start until 2 or 3:00 in the afternoon. Sometimes, I leave the house around 1:00 and don't get back until 6 or 7:00, which means she hasn't had anything to eat since the night before. Don't like that idea at all. So, I put her food out this morning (1/2 her daily amount). She finally ate it around 3:00. Put the other 1/2 out and will take it up at 8:00 even if she hasn't eaten it all. Will be rough for a couple of days but she'll soon learn to eat the food when it's out because it might not be there later.

I also supplement with a tiny amount of beef and chicken in the morning and at night. It was started to get food into Callie for her medicines and since I was doing it with one I had to do it will all of them. They know if only stays out for a short amount of time like 10 minutes and then it’s gone but the boys don’t seem to care much they do not always eat it but the girls do. I’m actually getting a sample of veggie mix that I just add some protein to and going to try that in the morning and at night but still leave the dry food out. I think Ollie wouldn’t get enough food if I picked up the dry food. I wish you luck, yorkies are stubborn.

lilgidget 01-23-2020 03:55 PM

Yes, Yorkies are stubborn but they'll eat dirt before they will starve.

Lovetodream88 01-23-2020 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by lilgidget (Post 4798433)
Yes, Yorkies are stubborn but they'll eat dirt before they will starve.

Not mine lol been there tried that. That is the normal though. Mine just aren’t normal and know I won’t hold out as long as them.

Susan78 01-23-2020 06:28 PM

I feed mine three times a day. 7:30am 12:30pm and 6:30pm. I wished I could just leave a bowl of food out but she would gobble it down. If she got into a bag of food she would pig out , she loves her food. Susan

mrssabes 01-24-2020 06:09 AM

Twice a day, at vet's insistence. Sometimes, I sneak Fabian some chicken or blueberries at lunch because otherwise he's ravenous by the time I get home from work at the end of the day. No matter the quantity put out, he eats like he's just breaking a month-long fast, so grazing doesn't work for us either.

lilgidget 01-24-2020 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88 (Post 4798432)
I also supplement with a tiny amount of beef and chicken in the morning and at night. It was started to get food into Callie for her medicines and since I was doing it with one I had to do it will all of them. They know if only stays out for a short amount of time like 10 minutes and then it’s gone but the boys don’t seem to care much they do not always eat it but the girls do. I’m actually getting a sample of veggie mix that I just add some protein to and going to try that in the morning and at night but still leave the dry food out. I think Ollie wouldn’t get enough food if I picked up the dry food. I wish you luck, yorkies are stubborn.

If I give her even a tiny amount of chicken, she turns her nose up at her dog food. So, no "people' food at all until we get this twice a day schedule in place. I'm as stubborn as she is. I really think it's better for her to be on a schedule so I'll just have to wait it out.


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