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We normally feed at the same time every day -when we get home from work

But I've noticed that the dogs get manic if we are running late and have not fed them and it's absolute chaos in our house

I'm toying with the idea of switching things up a bit and just feeding them at different times every day. Do you think there would be any negative side effects if I did this?

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When i work they do, my days off they dont.

I get up at 5:50am and am at work azt 7am, they usually get fed about 6:15, on my days off it can be anywhere between 7am - 12 noon, sometimes i dont do it till im about to goto bed!

I hate animals that beg for their food! Sumo (kitten) started doing it, so i have moved from feeding him in the morning, to the afternoon (they get dry food all day, but wet food once a day)

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Nope - nothing is done to a routine here, they get fed when ever I get around to it.

Makes them appreciate it even more. :)

I only have some sort of routine when we have puppies, the adults have to deal with it.

The Rotties are no worries but the pug thinks the world is coming to an end if meals are slightly late, so she has to wait even longer when she carries on.

I am a meanie. :wave:

eta: in summer they are fed early/late as they are fed a raw diet - I avoid feeding during the warmest times of the day.

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nope, mine get fed when I'm ready to feed them but always in the evening.

I don't feed at the same time just in case I get held up at work or something and late home.

In summer i feed much later than winter because I wait til it's cooler before I walk them and I like to wait at least half an hour before end of walk and dinner. Winter they are walked as soon as I get home from work.

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With large breed and at risk dogs I always feed twice a day unless of course we are travelling somewhere early in the morning.

Then I feed when we get there if it is not too late in the day.

My dogs get fed between 5.30 and 6.30 in the morning and 5.00 at night.

They know when it is feed time. Our parrot loves socialising at feed time cause of the hype that goes on.

I will never ever feed Bulldogs or Bullmastiffs only one feed a day

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Not always at the same time, but generally the same routine

Breakfast is as soon as we get up, around 7-8am. (RMB's so it doesn't require much effort apart from taking it out of the fridge)

Dinner is after we (the family) have eaten, cleaned up and relaxed for a bit. In summer dinner is usually late, around 9-10pm, and now in winter I'm feeding him at around 7-8pm.

The night routine works especially well for us as Kei knows that after dinner he goes out to the toilet and then off to bed. If I want him to go to sleep earlier I just feed him earlier and he's out like a light :wave:

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I do these days, because my old girl gets very anxious if she's not, so to spare her we try and feed at the same time. She only does it if we're home though, if we're not home, she will be very relaxed when we get home. My life kinda runs around her at the moment though, so it's not a huge issue.

Once she has gone, I will go back to random feeding times.

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Different times. I don't want my dogs to worry if sometimes I am running late and can't be home for their dinner time :wave:

They never expect it so they never get frantic about it.

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Ours get brekky and dinner, but its usually whenever it happens! When Im working & OH is working they will have their breakfast about 6.30 am and dinner after us, around 8pm. Thankfully they dont seem to worry when they are going to be fed. Days off its even more random - especially breakfast, poor buggers. But they do like a sleep in... :rofl:

Im sure my last ridgie had a bloody wristwatch!!! Come about 6pm she would start pacing and whining. Just the littlest of whines, then if no-one noticed it would become a snort - like a damn horse!! She was very time savvy was Miss Miekah :wave::) The snort thing was so funny, it seemed to be more through her mouth, her top lips would ripple with the snort, but it sounded like it came out of her nose :love: . Of course I would be mean at times and ignore her "requests" just so I could see and hear it again :love: :D ..Poor dog.

The horse seems to be more time aware than the dogs. You can hear her belting on the gate at around 4.30 each arvo.

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My boy gets fed once a day ... he normally gets fed when he gets home from work at about 6 to 6:30am.

When he is not working then he gets fed when I get around to feeding him ... basically before I go to work.

If he doesn't work on the weekend then he basically gets fed when I get up.

He will remind me to feed him if it is getting up around 10am and he hasn't been fed yet.

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Nope, my schedule is different every day and therefore so is Saki's.

She gets two meals and about a thousand treats day :) but very rarely at the same time as the day before!

We also sleep at different times on different days and she might be walked for hours on one day and not at all the next.

Lucky she's such an easy going, flexible dog! You always hear that dogs need routine but mine is happy without it *shrugs* :wave: x

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Ours get brekky and dinner, but its usually whenever it happens! When Im working & OH is working they will have their breakfast about 6.30 am and dinner after us, around 8pm. Thankfully they dont seem to worry when they are going to be fed. Days off its even more random - especially breakfast, poor buggers. But they do like a sleep in... :rofl:

Im sure my last ridgie had a bloody wristwatch!!! Come about 6pm she would start pacing and whining. Just the littlest of whines, then if no-one noticed it would become a snort - like a damn horse!! She was very time savvy was Miss Miekah :wave::) The snort thing was so funny, it seemed to be more through her mouth, her top lips would ripple with the snort, but it sounded like it came out of her nose :love: . Of course I would be mean at times and ignore her "requests" just so I could see and hear it again :love: :D ..Poor dog.

The horse seems to be more time aware than the dogs. You can hear her belting on the gate at around 4.30 each arvo.

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Funny you should say that... it's my ridgeback who starts the mania!

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Dogs are a part of your family and will adapt to your family's ways. A few decades back it was fashionable in some circles to fast dogs once a week or once a fortnight. I don't think any of them ever died from that...

When I had school age kids, there had to be a fairly set routine, and the dogs would get fed twice a day pretty much by the clock on weekdays and slightly differently on weekends. Not only did they have in-built clocks and would start "reminding" if dinner wasn't in their bowls within 15 mins of the "usual" time, but they also had in-built calendars and wouldn't do the reminding on weekends! Public holidays and daylight saving used to throw them a bit!! :wave:

These days as I am a shift worker it is very different. They get fed every twelve hours approximately. Sometimes that is midday and midnight, sometimes 2pm and 2am, etc. etc. depending on my shift at the time. Even more confusing, I don't feed "breakfast" and "dinner" anymore...but three differently sized and constituted meals in regular rotation. My 15 y.o. girl tries the "reminder" now and again, I suspect she has fond memories of the more regular days...ah, who am I kidding? I have a breed that thinks they should be fed every half-hour with snacks in between. :)

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