How do you feed your dogs?

[NicoleLJ]

For those with more then one dog do you feed them side by side? Different corners of the same room? Different rooms? Different times? In crates? Other?

I always feed my dogs side by side. Never had to worry about any food aggression issues or anything. And I fine feeding them in one location makes things so much easier and faster. So what do you do? Why is this what you prefer? No wrong or right answer. Just curious.

 

[Tankstar]

They are near each other. But not next to each other.
depends how im feeding too, treat toy, puzzle toy, food bowl, splatter it on the floor ect

 

[darkchild16]

Everyone is seperated.

 

[Dekka]

Raw can be messy, and some like to lie and chew leisurely on it, so crates makes it much simpler. When I had less dogs (I have 7 now) and fed kibble I fed them in the same spot. But not side by side. I know I don't like eating elbow to elbow crammed together lol. That and I had one dog who would take a mouthful, back up, spit it out and eat it off the floor if they were too close to another dogs. I figure they like a little 'elbow' room. I have also found they eat slower if they aren't eating side by side.

 

[HayleyMarie]

Right now we are feeding kibble.

Food is out pretty much all the time so the dogs can eat whenever they like. They really have no set schedual.

All though that will change one I move out.

 

[lizzybeth727]

In usually use food dispensing toys, so side-by-side wouldn't work. Plus I don't think it's fair to feed side-by-side, since IMO most dogs - even if they don't "guard," per se - are uncomfortable eating with another dog closeby.

I even feed my cats in separate rooms.

 

[MandyPug]

The older 2 get fed at 5:30am and 5:30pm and eat in the same room as each other... Izzie and i prefer to sleep in and i do some training work with her because she seems to be the most "on" before her meals so she gets fed closer to 7:30am and 7:30pm.

 

[Renee750il]

It depends on what kind of mood everyone (read "the bitches") is in

 

[elegy]

Crates. Mushroom is food-guardy and Steve is food-guardy, and crates means I don't have to supervise and they don't have to worry.

 

[*blackrose]

With Blackie and Rose, I just fed them side by side. (Well, side by side in the sense their dishes were apart, but they were together.) No problems.

Chloe and Rose get fed in separate rooms. I feed Chloe in my room at night and since Rose has run of the downstairs overnight, I fill up her bowl before bed. Yes, that means they are eating right before they sleep (or overnight/early morning, depending on how hungry they are), but that is the most convenient way for me to do it. It saves me having to take the time to gate them apart and then watch them to make sure they don't fence fight/bust the gate over while food is still in their dishes.

 

[Sit Stay]

Same room, different corners. Dally eats in one part of the kitchen, Quinn eats on the landing of the stairs leading from the kitchen to the second floor. Food is put in their bowls, they're released at the same time, eat, switch bowls to make sure the other didn't leave anything, and then they're done!

 

[MericoX]

All get fed in the kitchen, schnauzer can eat side by side and poodles can eat side by side with no complaint... probably 2-3 feet apart from each other, but cannot put the poodles intermixed with schnauzers.

 

[Picklepaige]

Mine eat outside. I don't really have a certain place I put the bowl...sometimes they're 20 feet apart, sometimes they're side by side. I just have to make sure that Maggie doesn't run Reecie off her food, since Reecie is a pushover and will let her. I usually throw the tennis ball for Maggie when she gets done to keep her distracted until Reecie finishes.

 

[noludoru]

I generally point at one of the cats and tell him to catch dinner himself.

And by "one of the cats" I mean "Emma."

 

[oakash]

I generally put food in a bowl, and then put it on the ground. I've found that it works well for me. lol Just kidding

I only have one dog, so this post here is pointless

 

[mrose_s]

Buster and Mac eat a few metres apart, opposite ends of the same room. Quinn eats in her crate, she finishes first and will go and steal food/start fights over it.

 

[Beanie]

Kota and Happy were fed on opposite sides of the room. When we added Auggie, he ate upstairs and they ate on opposite sides of the room downstairs.

Pepper leaves Auggie alone and Auggie will leave her alone, but it's easiest to feed her in her crate where I don't have to worry about it. Once I get Puppy I will probably just do opposite sides of the room... but once I have more than two, feeding in crates may be easiest so I may switch to that.

 

[SpringerLover]

Separate rooms. Food toys complicates things and I usually have to crate the one who didn't get a food toy.

 

[JustaLilBitaLuck]

Jack and Missy get fed at the same time (around 5 AM and 5 PM) in different corners of the kitchen. Missy always finishes first, and likes to intrude on Jack's space if they're close together while eating.

Whenever they have Kongs, bully sticks, raw bones, etc, they're either crated (in the case of raw), or in seperate corners of the living room. They've never guarded or fought over a bone, but better safe than sorry.

 

[Southpaw]

Different corners of the same room just because there isn't enough room to have them side by side. Lucy is pretty much free fed so her food is always down next to the water dish, Juno's bowl just gets plopped down wherever I happen to be standing when I fill it.

We don't have issues over food so we just keep it simple.