gobbling food
There is a ceramic bowl you can buy called gobblenot but it is really expensive and I am not sure it will work. Apart from hand feed her as the nurse suggested at the vet I am stumped. Any ideas please? She is trying to eat anything at the moment, fluff, dirt, stones you name it! |
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| I've read for feeding aggressive eaters, put an object in the middle of the dish.......like a tennis ball.
Of course the still must be large enough that they can still get in there for their kibble. How about using a bundt pan for a dog dish? I'm assuming her are feeding her away from the Yorkie.......any preceived competition may cause gobbling. Going to 3 meals she's really not getting full like before, which is good, but she's still hungry and thinking, "I'm starved, if I eat fast maybe I'll get more." |
FWIW I don't find large kibbles to help dogs that are just swallowing it down. At least not mine  Then they're just swallowing larger chunks. I imagine if your dog is being fed 3X a day, it can't be that much at once?? I'm only saying that b/c feeding your dog 1C by hand doesn't seem too bad. 1/4-1/2 c at a time. We went from feeding by hand to feeding about 1/4th of a cup at a time and she gets fed 2C twice a day. |
| sheepieboss...whats a bundt pan? |
| It's a round cake pan with a hole in the middle.
Avy, my OES, is food obsessed, and has bloated 3 times. I got her a Brake Fast bowl. It's a bowl with three pegs in the center that serve as obstacles that the dog has to work around. It definitely slows her down. A friend of mine has a Burmese Mtn dog who also bloated, and she now eats out of a cupcake baking pan. Same idea as the Brake Fast bowl. |
You can also put a can of soup or veg (the can with the stuff in it not the contents  ) in the middle of the food bowl, or feed one third of the food let summer focus on you, put down another third of the food let her eat and focus on you and then feed another third. See if that works... |
| Sue, I'm sorry, I keep forgetting you are on the other side of the pond. Hopefully you understood from the other post........a cake pan with a hole in the center. I like the cupcake pan idea too......how frustrating would that be for Summer Poor thing, that one experience has turned her into a fearful eater, "I might never get fed again!!" |
I understand the pans now! I have seen those in some of my 99p shops (thrift shops) I must go on a hunt. I mostly hand fed her yesterday  |
4dognight wrote: You can also put a can of soup or veg (the can with the stuff in it not the contents
) in the middle of the food bowl, or feed one third of the food let summer focus on you, put down another third of the food let her eat and focus on you and then feed another third. See if that works...It worked...I gave her our biggest stainless steel dish and in the centre of the dish stood a tin of soup! then put the kibble round the edge. So she pushed the tin round and kept giving me looks but the yorkie finished first. She also kept getting some kibble out and eating it off the floor. So fingers crossed and thanks 4dognight! you are a star...    |
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