Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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Depends on the dog and/or dogs. Some dogs will competitively eat around other dogs until its gone. Some you can free feed and they will take what they need. Others will gorge themselves. Feed accordingly to their traits. Nobody want's a fat dog...but we've all seen malnourished dogs as well.
Best answer so far. I feed my dogs twice a day. Morning, a snack in between, and then evening. I only do this because one dog is food driven and the other only eats what it needs. So I just put out what is needed.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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Depends on the dog. Some have food in their bowl all the time and eat when they are hungry. I think some would quickly eat themselves to death if I did that.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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Our German Shepherd (pet/watchdog) gets 3 cups of food a day... Based on the instructions for his weight on the bag.
Some days he'll wolf it down, but most of the time he snacks on it throughout the day.
Mike
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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Our lab gets fed 2x a day and she is starving to death at feeding time. I am sure she would eat herself to death if she had free access to food all the time. X2....My lab gets feed twice a day with measured amounts. You would think he was starving the way he gobbles the food down.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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Blackdog feeds some lucky dogs. I feed 12 beagles. All are on feeders as puppies, Most adjust fine and don't overeat. I have 2 that I feed daily during the summer when they are less active. I also supplement with some beaver meat during winter. Fed all my hounds beaver carcasses during the winter in the 70's and 80's.Did have to watch it as the hounds would get fat on it.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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All dogs working or not get fed high protein dog food once a day. 50 pound dog maybe 1 1/2-2 cups adjust up in the winter when they are burning more calories
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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My adult dogs get fed once a day. Any adult dog that is on meds and all pups get fed twice a day. You need to condition your dogs to eat when food is presented. That way you can put weight on them when they need it.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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I'd never heard of Blue Buffalo dog food, just checked the prices, that's high dollar. Online it was $50 for a 30 pound bag. Didn't read the fine print.
Here at work we sell Kenny O's dog feed. Different prices, different protien/fat content. Prices have went up, but it sell for $32 for a 50 pound bag. A year ago we sold it for $22.50 per bag.
Years ago we sold Joy dog food, that was a good feed. Not sure if I can get it now?
About feeding, I never did like to feed before hunting. I'd wait till I got home.
I only have one dog now, 15 month old Walker, big tall dog. I've been mixing her food with water. We've been fairly cold here lately, the water bucket is frozen in a half hour. I had her out today and noticed her eating snow.
I've only had this new dog for 5 or 6 weeks, but once we get situated, I'll probably only feed her once a day. If you put out too much, the starlings eat the rest, I don't need them out back.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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when I had 2 dogs big and small had to feed the big dog every day and it would eat all of it and often the little dogs food also
often closed the little dog in the mud room with their bowl in the evening so they could eat without competition
now that big dog died , keep a little food in bowl and little dog only eats a little.
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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I feed different dogs different ways. I used to mostly free feed and never had more than mild issues for years, until we got Sherman, a neutered male, Kangal/Great Pyrenees. He would eat all the food that was available and eat out of the bags or other storage containers, if he could. He ballooned up to 237, which I weighed him at and then probably got into the mid 240s. We started putting out food for the house dogs just once a day, in a bowl per dog. Sherman would wolf down his food and then intimidate the other dogs, off of theirs until he got to our 23 pound feist, Dingle, who was Alpha, whose food Sherman would not touch, until she was out of the room for a few minutes. Now we keep the food locked up in sealed containers, feed just once a day and feed Sherman in a separate room.
Once Diane didn't put the locking ring on the dog food container and Sherman ate all the food in it, while we were gone, around 35 pounds. He was miserable. I had to take him out every 20 to 30 minutes, most of the night and he kept moaning.
Keith That's crazy,but funny as h---
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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I feed different dogs different ways. I used to mostly free feed and never had more than mild issues for years, until we got Sherman, a neutered male, Kangal/Great Pyrenees. He would eat all the food that was available and eat out of the bags or other storage containers, if he could. He ballooned up to 237, which I weighed him at and then probably got into the mid 240s. We started putting out food for the house dogs just once a day, in a bowl per dog. Sherman would wolf down his food and then intimidate the other dogs, off of theirs until he got to our 23 pound feist, Dingle, who was Alpha, whose food Sherman would not touch, until she was out of the room for a few minutes. Now we keep the food locked up in sealed containers, feed just once a day and feed Sherman in a separate room.
Once Diane didn't put the locking ring on the dog food container and Sherman ate all the food in it, while we were gone, around 35 pounds. He was miserable. I had to take him out every 20 to 30 minutes, most of the night and he kept moaning.
Keith That's crazy,but funny as h--- It is funny now, but it was definitely not funny then. Every time I started to fall asleep, Sherman would start moaning. I would just barely get him outside the door and he would release a torrent of loose stool, that didn't look digested at all. I was not happy. It was a miserable night. Sherman approaching peak weight. Sherman now. A fairly spry 10 year old playing with Louie, a 1 year old Catahoula. Sherman got a waste line back. Keith
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Re: Feeding Dogs (no wrong answers)
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I have a malamute and a wolf lab cross. When I was trapping, I used to feed them upwards of 80 frozen lynx a year combined with beaver, both are very good feed.
I save all moose scraps, lungs, most innards, hide, head, bones, hooves and all the visceral fat.
Then alternate between frozen fish and frozen moose, and what table scraps, game scraps, and or dry fish, once a day. They get a treat usually a piece of moose hide to tear up all day or a hoof.
The malamute also eats kibble dry dog feed, but the wolf dog wont hardly touches it, would rather starve.
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