How much food does your dog eat daily?
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Emma has perfected the art of knocking it out of my hands, spilling EVO on to the floor where the kitties can converge upon it.. they do plan these things...
its weird. They all get about the same eventhough we have harry - 30kg, mac - 11kg, sophie 40kg and buster - 21kg.
Macs energy level means she needs heaps. So she gets about 4/5 of what sophie gets.
Sophie we try to keep light because of her hips, so she usually gets a cup of biscuits and 5 chicken wings, or 1/2 kg chicken necks (about 15 of them i think) or some pet mince cooked up with vegies and pasta (a bit less than 1/2 kg of that to) but somenights they don't get bikkies.
Buster only eats as much as he wants. Which means sometimes he can't eat more than 2 chicken wings. He will also take the food, dump it, come back, get more dump it etc (because sometimes we jus hand it out to them instead of feding them in bowls) so i have chanegd now so that if i hand it to him twice and he won't eat it, i just pick it up and give it to soemone else, then hand him another. He caught on pretty quick when he relised if he doesn't eat right then, he looses his food.
in all honesty, he doesn't like eating very much, but he will gather a lot of food then sit out in the cold and guard it if need be, he can be quite food possessive with the dogs. But he used to let Panda walk righ tup and eat out of his mouth. lol
Harry atm is getting as much as Buster, maybe a little bit more. that being how ever much meat buster gets and harry and buster only get 1/2 cup biscuits each because Buster is a bit more solid then a iwant him and Harry has just been put on a crash dieting plan to get the weight off his hips. And boy is he hungry! he ran around last night after everyone had finished, diving into other dogs empty bowls, then looking all stuned when he didn't find anything.
Macs energy level means she needs heaps. So she gets about 4/5 of what sophie gets.
Sophie we try to keep light because of her hips, so she usually gets a cup of biscuits and 5 chicken wings, or 1/2 kg chicken necks (about 15 of them i think) or some pet mince cooked up with vegies and pasta (a bit less than 1/2 kg of that to) but somenights they don't get bikkies.
Buster only eats as much as he wants. Which means sometimes he can't eat more than 2 chicken wings. He will also take the food, dump it, come back, get more dump it etc (because sometimes we jus hand it out to them instead of feding them in bowls) so i have chanegd now so that if i hand it to him twice and he won't eat it, i just pick it up and give it to soemone else, then hand him another. He caught on pretty quick when he relised if he doesn't eat right then, he looses his food.
in all honesty, he doesn't like eating very much, but he will gather a lot of food then sit out in the cold and guard it if need be, he can be quite food possessive with the dogs. But he used to let Panda walk righ tup and eat out of his mouth. lol
Harry atm is getting as much as Buster, maybe a little bit more. that being how ever much meat buster gets and harry and buster only get 1/2 cup biscuits each because Buster is a bit more solid then a iwant him and Harry has just been put on a crash dieting plan to get the weight off his hips. And boy is he hungry! he ran around last night after everyone had finished, diving into other dogs empty bowls, then looking all stuned when he didn't find anything.
Tosca gets 3/4 cup Canidae ALS twice a day, each meal supplemented with a mixture of other things. Sometimes chicken breast, sometimes dog food roll, sometimes ground turkey, sometimes canned salmon. I also give her some cottage cheese or yogurt and her expected whole raw carrot once a day or some sweet potato. On days when she eats raw meaty bones, I cut down on the supplemental meat/fish.
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We are also on Raw Instinct. Both Wally (70 pound, 7.5 year old Greyhound) and Teeny (51 pound, 9 month old Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog) eat 1.5 cups of kibble at dinner mixed with pumpkin, cottage cheese, and supplements, and for breakfast they each get a chicken thigh or drumstick and a chicken liver or piece of beef liver.
Spider ( Rottweiler ) 3 cups twice a day plus canned. She is my worst eater, so the more she eats the better
Naughty ( Rottweiler ) 1 cup twice a day. She has no problem eating anything edible
Kodak ( Australian Cattle Dog ) 1 cup twice a day
Pearl ( Bullmastiff) 2 cups or 2 patties ( on raw for food alergies) twice a day.
Right now we are on canidae, but no one is thrilled, so might be switching yet again to EVO
Naughty ( Rottweiler ) 1 cup twice a day. She has no problem eating anything edible
Kodak ( Australian Cattle Dog ) 1 cup twice a day
Pearl ( Bullmastiff) 2 cups or 2 patties ( on raw for food alergies) twice a day.
Right now we are on canidae, but no one is thrilled, so might be switching yet again to EVO