Do you feed your dogs seperate?

[Flatcoatluver]

At work we get a couple dog's that must be kept seperate. I am just curious about your dogs.

I keep my dogs seperated because Zoey used to guard her bowl when I switched to feeding her twice a day instead of she eats whenever she wants. Now there bowls are each at different ends of the room and since T.j finishes last Zoey learned now she has to go and lay down instead of try and get T.j's food. T.j is a door mat in the dog world.

[lvpets2002]

No my two outside dogs are ok with one big dry food bowl.. They take turns..

[Taz_Zoee]

We only have Zoee. But when she goes to my brothers house when we are away on the weekends, I think they feed them all at the same time. I know they would feed Zoee and Boo at the same time, but now with Lucy I'm not sure how they do it. But I think it's all together just in different parts of the kitchen.

[lizbud]

I feed them together, always have & it's never a problem.

[Jakesmom]

We feed them together (not right side by side, Jake is sort of an "enthusiastic" eater, and Sophie is more picky). Jake is very mellow about his food and Sophie doesn't try to get it (not so much his rawhides when I used to give him those, the only fight he has ever been in was when I gave an old rawhide he no longer chewed on to a visiting dog...guess he didn't want anyone else to have it either...). Sophie wouldn't take anothers food, but she is a little possessive if one of the cats wanders over to her bowl.

Jake's mom

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I feed them all at the same time, but they each have a "spot" where they eat. The other two are fine, but Adele has to be crated, because unfortunately she is slightly food aggressive towards the other pets.

[k9krazee]

By seperate do you mean in different bowls or in different rooms?

My dogs all have thier own bowl in their specific spot in the dining room. Its funny, if you ask them if they're hungry they go and stand in their spots waiting for their food. We don't have any issues with food aggression at all.

[luvofallhorses]

Yes, because all of them except Rocky are very food aggressive.

Jenny eats in the living room, Buster eats in the kitchen,
and Ginger and Rocky eat in my parent's room with the door shut. and I would never feed them out of the same dish, that's just asking for trouble with my food aggressive dogs.

[finn's mom]

I put other because none of them take pills, none of them are really food aggressive, but I still separate them. Finn eats raw outside and Freckles and Dudley eat kibble out of separate bowls in the kitchen. They all get fed at the same time, I just don't want to take the chance that Finn would drop his chicken on the carpet, so I put him outside.

[critter crazy]

I have always fed my dogs together, side by side. I feel it is best this way, as we can work on any aggression and or Guarding issues. I have never had a problem with it, and the dogs dont mind either. half the time, the food sits in their dishes for a while before eaten.

[GrabaLab]

We feed our dogs at the same time with their own bowls in the same area. They tend to rotate bowls after they eat to check out one anothers bowl to see if there is anything left to eat.

[Lobodeb]

My two are fine. The only problem we have is that Emma insists on going potty mid way through her meal. Why is that a problem, you ask? Because I have a fat cat who will come in and eat what she left! Normally Maggy leaves some, so Emma is affectionately known as the resident dish washer.

[cyber-sibes]

i'm not sure what you mean - separate as in different rooms? Or separate as in not side by side? I feed mine about 6' apart. Sherman sucks it down, Star takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r-, but she let Sherman know he is not welcome to her food till she lets him have it. He respects that.

[pessimisaurus]

mine are resource guarders but they respect each others food and even when they do guard they never hurt either other because their bite inhibition is good. plus usually a little growl is enough to get the other to back off.

I feed brock in a bowl whether alki is around or not, but I always feed alki in her crate. I either toss the kibble in loose for her to scavenge, or feed her in a tricky treat ball or other work-to-eat toy. when using those I have to seperate her otherwise Brock will eat the loose kibble that falls out.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Mine all eat separately. The main reason is because they all eat at very different speeds and the faster eaters will try to steal the slower eaters food. For the most part I don't really have any issues with food aggression except a little between Bitsy and Nova. Nova eats fast and Bitsy eats slow, Nova will finish her bowl and try to steal Bitsy's food, Bitsy will guard it.