My two black labs are INSANE with food. If they can’t find extra food they’ll eat horse manure!

I dumped a bunch of beavers out in a pasture and they found them. They ate the oil sacs as I can smell it on their breath. They have squirts that would make cows jealous!

Marine’s are hungry too,,,,,,just different hunger…..….

Not funny when it happened but funny now. The neighbors golden gobbled down 10 lbs. of castor drying in the fur shed when castor was $80/lb. He pooped castor for 3 days.

Must be something with the breed most labs of my acquaintance are obese if not kept on a diet.

We have a 1 1/2 year old chocolate lab.

I bet he wolfs his 2 cups of Science Diet nuggets down in 15 seconds

I'll have to time him one day

Friend of mine had an overweight black lab.

We called it a flabador.

Our Yellow lab we had for 11.5 years always wolfed down his daily ration in seconds. I believe it part of the genetics as breeders have been breeding for certain traits and food consumption could be a part of the genetic makeup.
Not unlike their wild relatives who gorge on their kills and then lay around, belch, burp and toss up and eat again. we were travelling and I put 5 days worth of dog food in a bag and while unloading I left the bag in the back with the door opened. When I came back to get the next load the bag was on the ground and in less then a minute 4 days of food was gone.

Bryce

My chocolate lab scarfs her food down pdq. A minute or less
Every lab I've owned has been a glutton, they will eat as much and as often as you want to let them eat.
The oldest daughter is always feeding her snacks, now she's as big as a barrel and totally worthless for hunting..

I wonder if the breeds history as a water dog in cold water didn't turn up the metabolism a notch or two.

My Mountain Cur doesn’t want to stop eating. I had labs and beagles the same way. So I would guess labs aren’t the only ones

Since childhood I have had more than a dozen labs in all colors. Some wolf their food down and others eat when they are hungry. I have noticed that the females are slightly more prone to wolfing the food and males are less likely. My last male and current male ate the same general time every day. Current lab is fed in the morning but does not eat until 8pm give or take a few minutes. He's been that way since day one.

I have also noticed that puppies fed as a group have this tendency as there is constant competition for food. Although the competition is no longer there the habit stays with them.

I put a ball in my labs bowl to slow him down to 30 seconds!

And they shed their weight in hair per day....

My daughter is a vet tech and says labs are also far more prone to eating socks, underwear, golf balls and rocks.

same with our New lab pup
seconds to eat

I figured he competed with others in his litter.

330-You are going to have to stop posting that picture! My Yellow had to be put down last May and due to health reasons I have not replaced him...yet. Seeing the picture of your pup makes my heart ache for one of my own.

Honestly, though...keep the pictures coming!

Moosetrot

The darker the lab, the less they shed. Blacks shed the least, yellows the most and chocolate somewhere in the middle. Ours always have a big bowl of food and they don't house it down in fact they won't eat it at all if they think they'll get people food, and that, they house down.

Interesting that so many have had labs that just gorge. The three that I had I would free feed and never became fat. I know it’s unusual and free feeding is not recommended.

They lived to 13-14 years and were never fat. The three of them were knuckleheads and ate socks and chewed the heck out of everything in sight, it seemed, while puppies. All three were from Mayo Kelloggs kennels.

They were #1,2,and 3 the best dogs I have had. I heard you only get one “great dog” per lifetime and he was in those three.

I’ve had a black lab by my side for most of my 60 years on earth. Heard it said a long time ago that a lab is for the person that never wants to eat a sandwich alone. So very true, they are chow hounds.

Can’t imagine life without one of the hounds beside me.

Our 1 1/2 year old chocolate...has thrown up dozens of socks...knock on wood

have you tried a slow feeder ?

I have no idea why they are always hungry , but I have had a few dogs that would over eat from a regular bowl and then puke

the slow feeder bowl it like a maze for the food to get stuck in , the non opposable thumbs version of peel and eat shrimp it slows you down having to shell them
it may or may not keep you from over eating in the case of shrimp , but it slows you down.

the dogs work at it while hungry but give up when it gets to hard until they are hungery enough to put in the effort again.

at least it stops the waste of food and dog puke

one dog has this and the down side is they can pick it up and carry it around the yard
https://www.farmandfleet.com/products/1365349-jw-3-cup-skid-stop-slow-feed-bowl.html

the other has this one and it seems harder to get food out and they don't pick it up and run with it
https://www.farmandfleet.com/products/1397913-outward-hound-fun-feeder-large.html

but it doesn't hold as much

I was late getting my labs fed the other day. They ate me. Not going to feed em late again.

My beagle/lab barely eats all day until the after her last time we put her outside for the day. Then she comes in and eats the bowl of food that been sitting there all day and eats it in less than 15 seconds also like she's been without for days and days

my dogs have slow feeders and it take less than 10 secondes four 2 cups of food. and then they eat the cats food and when thats gone they go to their own frozen turds

Bingo!
Northern deer put on winter fat. Southern deer put on tick fat.
Labs put on hair fat. I need to change my entire wardrobe to off-white/light yellow to blend in with all of the hair.

ANY ONE OF YOU THAT IS SICK OF YOUR LAB, REGARDLESS OF AGE, PM ME AND I WILL SEND YOU MY ADDRESS. I love labs and sure do miss having one warming my feet and critiquing my cooking.

I've never rationed my dogs food. NEVER.
I fill their bowl full and they have been able to eat when they want to.
As young pups, they may go hog wild but they've all self learned it's THIERfood. They've all self adjusted.
All my labs have been lean/ muscular dogs.
This cup here/ cup there drives me nuts! Those tend to be the dogs that eat like pigs.


Roscoe was 3 or 4 here. Had a full bowl/ bucket to his disposal.

We leave food in the bowl for the mt. feist and she will only eat when she's hungry. I feed our bm cur twice a day, our vet says i should just keep a full bowl for her also, i can't afford a 45pd bag of food a day i said.

True, Dave. Lol.
YES! Nessie, they eat food like there are 23 more dogs coming to eat it!

I tried the ball trick also. The bird dog takes the ball out and drops it down the steps.

The bird dog

Beautiful Dog

I always though food competition growing up impacted a dogs eating habits if it’s a if you don’t eat now the food will be gone then issue.