Dragging raw around the house

[Laurelin]

How do you keep your dog from dragging their food everywhere?

 

[Pam111]

you could feed in a crate or gate off the kitchen

 

[Laurelin]

I've tried gating off the kitchen but Mia is a very successful escape artists and has always found a way out of the kitchen with her meal.

I've thought about getting her a metal crate.

 

[Pam111]

Can she get out even with 2 gates stacked on top of eachother or does she just climb them? I used to have to stack gates when I had a MIn Pin

 

[Laurelin]

Can she get out even with 2 gates stacked on top of eachother or does she just climb them? I used to have to stack gates when I had a MIn Pin

I haven't been able to try that. The way my apartment is set up, the opening to the kitchen is too wide to actually put up a real gate and the bar is too short to put up two. So I've been trying to improvise and it hasn't worked.

Summer can climb two gates though.

 

[MafiaPrincess]

Raw gets fed in crates or outside. Otherwise mine would drag around too.

 

[Island dog]

Molly did this at first, and I would tell her 'no', take the meat and put it on a small mat. She seems to prefer the mat be placed in front of the sink area and very rarely moves it anywhere else.

 

[Zoom]

You feed outside?

I taught Sawyer to keep it on a towel when he's inside with it, but that's a very rare occasion these days since I can just open the backdoor and chuck it in the backyard.

 

[Laurelin]

Zoom, I don't have a yard or I would, lol.

 

[skKi]

I use a mat/towel also and basically sat next to him on the floor for the first few months while he ate. Every time he'd stray from the mat/towel, I'd give him a little "ah, ah, on the mat" and put it back on. All the dogs caught onto that pretty quickly. If you give Pit some food now, he'll run around the house looking FOR a towel or mat to eat on. Or laundry..

 

[Brattina88]

Towel or crate. I used a leash tied to the leg of the kitchen table when first learning about the whole towel thing. Also, for the more messy things (liver sometimes grosses me out! lol) I fed in a shallow but large cake pan to keep it all in LoL

I like feeding raw outside! I remember when Missy would NOT even touch a bite of food outside

 

[Whisper]

I have the same problem, so I'm looking for responses too!

My backyard has no grass- if I tossed raw out there half of what the dog ate would be the sand that stuck to it.

 

[Laurelin]

When I had a yared, I just stuck them outside and then sprayed down the porch afterwards with the hose.

 

[BabyDane]

We feed the girls outside mostly, but when the weather is crappy we feed them inside and they stick to eating on their dog beds which have washable covers. You'd be hard pressed to find one single spot on any of them from their food. They do a wonderful job cleaning up after themselves.

I have the same problem, so I'm looking for responses too!

My backyard has no grass- if I tossed raw out there half of what the dog ate would be the sand that stuck to it.

Our dogs eat outside the majority of the time. They roll their meat around in the dirt and leaves (we have no grass either LOL). I think it may add flavoring to it since they have the option to eat off of the patio but choose not to

I wouldn't worry about your dog ingesting dirt or anything...I haven't had a problem at all with it and have been raw feeding for a long time.

 

[Whisper]

Thanks BabyDane.

 

[puppydog]

I don't. It's a rental and I hate my landlord.

 

[Bailey08]

I use a mat/towel also and basically sat next to him on the floor for the first few months while he ate. Every time he'd stray from the mat/towel, I'd give him a little "ah, ah, on the mat" and put it back on. All the dogs caught onto that pretty quickly. If you give Pit some food now, he'll run around the house looking FOR a towel or mat to eat on. Or laundry..

Bailey too! He uses a mat or towel in the house to eat raw. (Though he'll sometimes try to sneak his food onto his blanket when I'm not watching him.) Anyway, when he goes to my parents' house, he brings all of his treats onto their doormat. :rofl1:

 

[annecsmith09]

my dog don't bring his food around but he brings his food container around. and i don't know why.

 

[Renee750il]

A bigger dog who will take it away if she drags it around instead of settling down and eating it?

 

[*Amy*]

My dogs magically eat their turkey necks over their bowls, but before I knew they'd be that good, I was feeding them in their crates. Sometimes they'll walk away from their bowls and eat elsewhere, but then I just wipe up the mess (since I have tile, this is pretty easy). I'm pretty sure if I tried to take a neck from them and show them where to eat, they'd swallow it whole so I haven't tried that.