Do your dogs have a set feeding time?

[Ratboy]

I free feed, haven't had a dog with a weight issue since I started doing it three generations of dogs ago. King nibbles a couple of mouthfulls whenever he goes outside, quite often at this point, and Molly spends about 10 minutes at a time, about 4 times a day stuffing her face. When the bowl gets low, they usually dump it over and that's my signal to wash it out and refill it.

 

[Taqroy]

Sometimes? They kind of have to on weekday mornings because we have about a 30 minute window to feed them (and by we I mean Matt haha). That hasn't been a problem so far, since they're still perfectly willing to sleep in on the weekends. Although now that I think about it, I bet that's because the girls are on tie down at night. Tipper used to decide it was time for me to get up and pounce on the bed and lick my face. Lol.

Anyway, at night I really do try to vary it. I super dislike Mu and Murphy getting in my face RIGHT AT 5:30. And even if I've been feeding in a 4 hour time frame from 3:30 to 7:30 they still focus in on 5:30. Murphy's internal alarm clock apparently can't be reset. I'm getting a little frustrated with it but I'm noticing improvement on some days (after two years of trying to vary it). And when they're really annoying I just throw them outside until I decide it's time to feed the brats. Tipper doesn't bother me.

 

[BostonBanker]

The evening meal is pretty fixed at 5:00. Meg can tell time and if I am distracted, will stand up and sigh at 5:01. Mornings is whenever I get up - 5:30 on work days, 6:30 or so on my days off.

 

[chaospony]

We have a loose schedule. Whenever we get back from our nightly walk/dog park/whatever. If I don't feed them right when we get back I will forget.....until 3 am when Trin is doing all but rattling her bowl between the bars! Robyn is a grazer so I have to force her to eat at dinner with something tasty on top or else she will keep trying to get out the bedroom to eat in the middle of the night.

 

[Dogs6]

We have a loose schedule. They're always fed after they come in in the morning. When I'm at school that's 6:30 but when I'm not at school it could be any time between 4-10am.

At night they usually get fed around 7:30 unless I'm doing something at that time. So usually between 6-8:30pm. If I forget about it until after 8:30 they generally don't get fed until the morning.

 

[jenv101]

Yes - morning routines are pretty set since we both work, so they are fed when I get up around 7:30am and dinner is usually around the same time we eat so between 6:30 and 7:30 pm unless we are out doing something.

 

[SaraB]

The dogs don't really, I mean I feed them around the same time every night but now that Classic is gone, the girls really don't hound me to get fed. The cats on the other hand are ridiculous, they start pestering me an hour or so before I normally feed them. If it wasn't for the cats I would probably forget to feed the animals frequently, LOL.

 

[Doberluv]

It's a pretty steady schedule...breakfast at 8:30 and dinner at 4:30. It can be an hour or so either way occasionally.

 

[Red.Apricot]

Morning and night, but it varies by hours. :]

 

[misfitz]

Not really. I usually feed Sienna when we're eating dinner, so she isn't watching us hungrily the whole time. Of course, it takes her like 30 seconds to eat, so she usually *is* watching us hungrily while we eat. And trying to convince me that I haven't fed her yet, see, the plate is EMPTY.

 

[Maxy24]

Yes, otherwise I'd bet money we'd have poop in the house. It's not exact times, but he eats in the morning before my mom goes to work, so sometimes between 6:30 and 8am and then at night around the same time we eat so 6:00-8pm.

 

[Catsi]

Between 6 -7am and between 6 - 7pm as a rough guide. Grace would never let me forget. Abby doesn't hound me over it. Some of their food is used for training. Usually bones in the morning, dry at night sometimes with extras (sardines, eggs, yoghurt etc). We usually come home from doing something and I give them an hour or so to settle before feeding.

 

[Laurelin]

They get breakfast every day. Work days is around 5:50 am. Weekends... eh whenever I get up. Mia gets hers in a puzzle toy and Summer gets hers in a bowl. Dinner only happens if they don't get any training that day. If we train, they get their dinner during training.

 

[elegy]

When I get up, and when I get home from work (anywhere between 5:30 and 9). On the weekends, usually 6:30 and 6:30 or so. Luce gets heart meds twice a day which are supposed to be close to every 12 hours, but my work schedule doesn't always make that possible.

 

[Grab]

They all eat once a day, right before bed

 

[AllieMackie]

Not really. Fed when I wake up (between 8am and 11am depending on the day) and sometime in the later evening (between 6pm and 9pm). Evening meal is when they get supplements. Simple.

 

[sparks19]

well... technically no LOL but Belle makes sure she is fed on time (see my video of the dinner dance in dog pictures LOL)

We usually feed them around 5 pm give or take depending on our schedules. Belle starts doing the dinner dance around 4 lol

 

[CrystalGSD]

No not really, lol. It depends when I'm busy or not.

 

[BigDogBuford]

Yes, but they think it's *all* the time. lol

 

[SkyRock]

No not really lol, he eats anywhere between 5pm and 10pm and it doesn't matter what time he eats he always poops in the morning... With the new puppy though we will have a guideline on what time to feed him until he's able to hold it for longer.