My CC pup Inhales food!

[Porcheesy]

My 3.5 month CC does not chew her food, anybody elses dog just inhales there food... she eats like it's a competition!

 

[BlackShadowCaneCorso]

Not really, but you can by slow feeder bowls or put a ball in the bowl to slow her down so you don't end up with issues from her eating too fast.

 

[Porcheesy]

Not really, but you can by slow feeder bowls or put a ball in the bowl to slow her down so you don't end up with issues from her eating too fast.

Ok I will try a ball... thank you

 

[Boxergirl]

My daughter's boxer inhales faster than any dog I've ever seen and has since he was 8 weeks old. He was seriously in danger of aspirating his food. Slow feed bowls didn't work. He broke the feeding ball within the first day, and a ball in the bowl wasn't good enough either. He just sucked the food up like a vacuum. We now spread his twice daily meals across the entire floor. It has to be the entire floor or he still just runs his face across the floor sucking up the food. I won't spend money on bowls or feeding toys anymore. This works much better, imo. Snuffle mats are also a good option, they just aren't quite big enough for large amounts of food.

 

[Smokeycat]

My EM was horrible for eating too fast as a puppy. I ended up using a large doughnut shapped bowl and creating what I called kibble soup. I added enough water that the kibble would float. It caused him to slow down as the faster he tried to eat the more the food would float away. Around a year old he stopped even trying to eat fast and I was able to go back to a regular bowl.

 

[Boxergirl]

My EM was horrible for eating too fast as a puppy. I ended up using a large doughnut shapped bowl and creating what I called kibble soup. I added enough water that the kibble would float. It caused him to slow down as the faster he tried to eat the more the food would float away. Around a year old he stopped even trying to eat fast and I was able to go back to a regular bowl.

I tried this with Otis too. He just choked from inhaling the water. Maybe he's just a weirdo. Lol.

 

[7121548]

I feed my dog with a Kong so he has to work to get the food out. He gets 6 Kongs every day. He also uses a Kong Wobbler sometimes. He pushes it around to get the kibble out, then eats the kibble off the floor.

 

[Nik]

My dogs eat too fast so we use a slow feeder bowl we also have switched to breaking up each of their two meals into two meals (two breakfasts an hourish apart and two dinners an hourish apart but same amount of food).

 

[Bailey's Mom]

Listen to Nik...bowls that trick or inhibit the dogs from wolfing their food down OR breaking their meals up into many smaller meals are the best suggestions.

We have a recent thread regarding bloat, which is a death sentence for most dogs. Heed the warning here, feed at a slower rate, especially if it is kibble only. Have time to assess that they are processing the food correctly. Most bloat cases can be referenced back to deep chested dogs (mastiffs and others above 95 lbs), additionally, there are issues with kibble only meals, exercise after meals, etc.,

Take a chance to review this and the accompanying videos from YouTube. The Best Defense Is A GOOD OFFENCE. Be Your Dog's Hero...slow the chow situation down, even if you have to hand feed the entire meal...which has great bonding issues...but allows them to digest the food without building up dangerous gas which can twist and turn a bowl and cause horrific pain and sudden death.

http://www.mastiff-forum.com/index.php?threads/bloat-question.30355/#post-376222