Tails of dinner woes
By Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
Centralia, Missouri
December 20, 2015 8:59am CST
Three dogs. Three full bowls of food. Food in them all day (free graze, as no one over eats, and they do not feel the need to empty the bowl because the food is there).
Would this solve the dinner fights?
One might think so.
But no.
Nope, I still have to deal with growing and barking and general dumbness over the whole deal. I go in to see what it is, and it's always the oldest herding the others away from every single bowl. I can even space them out, she likes to stand over them like a mother hen over her chicks.
There is enough for everyone!
The pom just waits until she is done.
The youngest bostie cannot wait, he doesn't even really want to eat, he just objects to the Mother Dragon hording coverage of all the bowls.....
You had this problem? What do you do? Do I need to move the bowls even further apart to help discourage such silliness?
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
21 Dec 15
@Jessicalynnt ...
Let us know if that works for you or not.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Dec 15
I might try moving one bowl to another room and see if that makes any difference
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
The pom just waits, if only the puppy would too
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Dec 15
@just4him her face....she was a puppy mill breeding dog, and was caged most of her life. I just couldn't kennel her. But I did put out three bowls and far enough apart she'd have to really get some exercise hording over all three, she gave up tonight, going to see if that fixes things in the long run
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 Dec 15
@Jessicalynnt Have you thought about kenneling the one while the other eats? It might teach it patience and soon you wouldn't need to kennel it.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
20 Dec 15
feed them all separately and in separate rooms or times if need be
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
Rooms Iwas working with b4 I left, seemed potentially a solution
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
Rooms Iwas working with b4 I left, seemed potentially a solution
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
21 Dec 15
@Susan2015
Does your Beagle even eat things she finds on the floor that are really not edible?
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
That at least keeps Cam from being able to camp on all the noms
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
20 Dec 15
When I was dating my husband he had two cats. One was the mother of the other cat. The kid cat would always try to steal his momma's food. I took to standing over momma's bowl so she could eat in peace and eat her fill.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Dec 15
yeah I have to do this, hoping to find a solution so I can resign as head Nom cop
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
23 Dec 15
@Jessicalynnt
At least you could try and see if it works or not. Good Luck with that hoarder. 
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
2 different rooms might work, just enough to keeput the oldest from hoarding
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Dec 15
@Marcyaz she likes to stand over the bowl and eat between her legs, the dork. Today I filled three bowls and just moved them far enough apart, in the same room, that she'd get tons of exercise trying to horde all the bowls, she appeared to give up
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@rebelann (117223)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 15
I actually haven't tried with Ally now that Mykey is gone, @Jessicalynnt , he would eat all the food if I'd let him. I wonder if Ally would if I let her, but then she is at a really good weight just by my giving her just over a cup of kibble twice a day. Of course she does get treats, usually a poached egg when I'm making soup for me to eat.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Dec 15
@rebelann I am super lucky my dogs dont just pork out until they explode. They get some treats too, just stuff that doesnt involve chicken, one has nasty allergies, so easier that way
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
Yeah many people tell me that their dogs don't free graze well, I am lucky there
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@OreoBrownie (3755)
• Commerce, Georgia
22 Dec 15
Sounds like a little bully over the food lol. I guess that's just what dogs do. They are territorial about their space and the other' space also.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
She is a bit, just never mean, rude sure but not mean
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
21 Dec 15
Having several dogs at the moment, this is an issue we have not solved-so no free grazing here. Although some suggest certain things will work, we have not found a method that is good for us.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
The moving a second bowl much further away has seemed to help some for us
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
21 Dec 15
I would think it might do the trick.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Dec 15
well I am back now, so have to give them some time to get calmed down from me being gone and then shall see.
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@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
1 Jan 16
@Jessicalynnt Your doing what you think is right.
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@farbuoloxusy (1164)
• United States
20 Dec 15
I can never keep food in my dogs bowls because my male dog will over eat and get sick, it never fails! I have 2 dogs if they eat inside my male dog bullies the female. However, if they eat outside my female bullies my male. I usually just put there bowls in separate rooms and I yell at my male dog when he tried taking my baby girls food.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
Mine don't just eat because there is food, but I know many dogs do
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
22 Dec 15
One of my dogs is really so greedy. He will eat faster than the other and then he will try to grab his food but the other will of course not allow him and they will rumble. In this case, I will use a long rod to castigate the greedy dog and he will then retreat.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
21 Dec 15
that's a shame... You may have to put the dominant one in another room, still feed them at the same time... but the dominant one in a seperate room... and see how that works .... the other solution is more time consuming for you and that would be to stand between her and the other dog bowls and tell her no.... there are lots of dog trainers on youtube, with dog training videos specific to many different problems... you might find something on there..... 
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
Actually that never occurred to me, thanks for the suggestions
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@HanVanMeegerin (1161)
• United States
21 Dec 15
@Jessicalynnt if they don't eat at meal time, pick up the food until the next meal time. Mother hen could be crated while the others eat.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Dec 15
She would prob tolerate the crate pretty well, I catch her randomly sitting in it
