Hungry pup

Has anyone got any advice on how to stop my puppy eating everything in sight please??

He's now nearly 14 weeks old, Husky/Lab, and seems to be constantly hungry, scavenging for food anywhere he can, and when he goes outside to the toilet he sits and eats the bark in my garden!

He has had a very funny belly since I had him with a couple of bouts of Colitis, so at present is on Hills ID food for a few weeks until we can try find a suitable food for him!

I follow the guidelines for puppy feeding on the bag, but to be honest I've upped it slightly to 300gs over 3 meals as he seems so hungry all the time, and now with starting puppy training classes he's constantly nibbling my fingers or snapping at my hands looking for treats.

He wolfs down his food within 30seconds, so I've put a rock in his food bowl, but even that is not slowing him down now, and I've seen the Brakefast bowls, but has anyone ever used one to tell me if they really work!?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Jo

Sounds like a typical healthy,lively puppy! Have you had a dog before? Do sign up for puppy classes then continue with training classes as your dog grows. The fact that he loves his food will help with the training.....look into training tricks...you can do this at home in a few minutes per day and it goes a long way to focus your dogs energy in a fun way. Make sure you are feeding a quality food and enjoy your puppy!

Hello,

Yes I have had a puppy before, but she was completely different as I never had any problems with her whatsoever, she was so contented and just a very very good puppy and dog!

I have started training classes, and these are my first puppy training/socialising classes, but i've never really agreed with treat training, and my puppy has since been snapping at my hands all the time expecting treats which has lead to some blood shed! I've spoken to the man running the classes about this, and he said if he's to food orientated this can sometimes happen, so we're going to try something different next week!

As for food, he's had problems with Colitis so trying to find a food is proving difficult, he's on Hills ID at present and i want to keep him on that for another 4 weeks to give his belly a complete break from the runny poo's, then we're trying again to see what happens! If next Kibble we try brings it on again, then he's like his dad and can't have kibble, which leaves finding a good puppy meat, or Chappie!

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Jo

Hi Jo,

Friend of mine uses one of those special bowls to slow down eating and it works really well with her spaniel, Regarding dodgy tummies my youngest gets diarrhoea and bad skin, on most foods and treats at the moment he is on Purina Hypoallergenic as a food trial, you could try either Burns pork and potato or wafcol salmon and potato as they both have no cereals in them and seem to work really well for a lot of dogs, both certainly worked for mine he was pooing normally on both but skin flared up so had to change again. Try and stick with any food you give your pup for 8-12 weeks to give the guts a proper rest and then you get a proper idea if the food is working or not, chopping and changing foods regularly can encourage the guts to react to different things. Good luck with your baby boy xx

Being food orinitated can not be a bad thing when training.....focus is everything....introduce a toy/tug too! what is your objection to treat training'? Have you considered clicker training?