With the kibble, Raisin never ate all of what it said she should get in a day. Now that she's on Stella & Chewys and Ziwipeak I think she would eat it all in one sitting if you gave it to her. She doesn't act like she's starving, but that food is gone now in 30 seconds or less.
I feed her in her crate and we have gates up to separate the dining room and kitchen from the living room. While I'm making dinner she is in the living room and when she realizes I'm putting food in her bowls she goes insane until I let her through the gate to get at it. I don't put her in her crate for dinner until we have food on our plates too because she finishes so quickly.
Anastasia, mama to Raisin the pug, Milla the cat and Ella the "skin kid."
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Free feeding more than one dog also can encourage truly ugly fights.
Last edited by tall grass pugs; 03-25-2011 at 08:10 AM.
I don't think free feeding dogs of any breed is a good idea. Encourages aggression and resource guarding and obesity.
Anne
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should just relax and get used to the idea.
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I would not do it here for sure either..
I can also see where one pug would out eat the other too..with their size difference..
Zeena is very tiny as it is....best to feed them what they get and that is it..
does not seem to many of us that would free feed a pug
I agree that pugs would not know when to stop...
A pugs world is full of play and sleep and of course good food.........
My two would eat until they popped, or as someone else said, until they vomitted - then they'd eat that and start again.
We had an incident fairly recently when Edie got into the 15kg bag of food. We found her after 10 minutes and she looked as if she hadn't stopped eating since getting into the bag - she was huge!
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