A Question Of Timing

[Suerose]

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I'd be very interested to hear what time people feed their hounds. The reason I'm wondering about this is that, since she was a pup, Grace gets me up in the middle of the night because she needs a poo. It occurred to me recently that changing her mealtimes might make a difference.

At the moment she gets half her food at about 9.30 (when we get back from our morning walk) and the other half at 5 pm. Yesterday, because she'd had a tummy upset and been starved for a day, I divided her meals into three and gave her the extra meal at midday. Whether it was because of that or because I put some kaolin in with it to settle things down, she didn't get me up last night. It would be so nice not to have to wake up and stagger down the stairs every night! :wacko:

 

[JAX]

How old is she ?

Mine get fed about 4.30 ish , unless Im on afternoons then is 6.30ish

Once they are over 9-12 months they get fed once a day , ok, so they have a drink of milk and a biscuit in the morning .

If I think they need more weight then they get a ful breky too

 

[bertha]

I feed and lunch time, 1 oclock and again at 5 oclock. This started years ago when I had a dog that had to have two meals a day and it's just continued.

 

[jinnyfizz]

Mine eat their evening meal anytime between 5 to 7pm at the moment. It changes in the summer when the evening are lighter and can be as late as 8pm sometimes.

They go out for their last chance before bed at around 12 midnight and I do make sure that they all "go" before they're allowed in. Unless they have a dodgy tum (which thankfully is extremely rare), they go through the night quite happily :thumbsup:

 

[Noise]

mine have food available all day. though they don't get a chance to eat before their morning run as we go straight out. they eat most in the morning and in the evening once they've come back from their evening walk, I top up the bowls morning and evening so it works out more like twice a day really.

 

[eve]

Mine get 4 Hills T/D for breakfast ( high calorific value) for their teeth.

Main meal at noon and then 2 hills T/D at bedtime. (Toddy 14 months gets an extra small feed at 10pm)

Mine seem to be able to go all night but I do stay out with them until they have all wee'd and emptied their bowels. if I do not do this, I am wakened by Lily at 2.30am!

 

[Suerose]

How old is she ?

Mine get fed about 4.30 ish , unless Im on afternoons then is 6.30ish

Once they are over 9-12 months they get fed once a day , ok, so they have a drink of milk and a biscuit in the morning .

If I think they need more weight then they get a ful breky too

She is two and a half years old now. Until she was spayed last November she tended to be on the skinny side and I purposely fed her up to get her less ribby. Also, her tum tends to be a bit delicate so I'm not sure that just one big meal a day would suit her.

I always go out in the garden with her last thing with a torch to make sure that she does everything she should, so it isn't because she hasn't 'gone'.

 

[fallenangel]

mine all get fed at 5pm and a bicky each at bed time once they turn 12 months when they do there last wees. they can all hold all night from the youngest even when they were quiet young to old milo whos 14 years old

 

[Windsdream]

My adults get breakfast about 8am, Main meal 4pm.

At bedtime 2 shape biscuits each or a bonio biscuit.

Pups different

Last time out to toilet 9.30pm ish

 

[rls22]

Mine get their breakfast at 8am and tea at about 6.30pm, each meal is about an hour after their walk.

They go out for the last time at about 11.30 - midnight and we've not had an accident since Diego was a tiny baby.

 

[Janimal]

My boys get breakfast between 8am and 9 am

and the Evening Meal at around 6 pm. A couple of biscuits before going to bed around 10 -11pm.

 

[Fleesh]

Currently mine are fed at 5pm and go out for last toilets at 10:30pm and straight to bed.

It might help if you take her for a short walk, just about 10mins when she'd normally be going for her last toilet. You might find that she goes once straight off, then goes again a little further into her walk.

Mine are worst in a morning, straight out of bed and straight outside but I have two that come in before they're really 'done' and I can guarantee that they'll both be back outside within half an hour.

Currently making allowances for my pregnant whoppet, when she's gotta go she's gotta go :sweating:

 

[~Annie~]

Different again here ... mine are fed by OH when he gets up at 6.30 and again by me at about 6.30 in the evening. Maybe 5 days out of 7 they also have 'a little something' at lunch time ... this began because Finn will only eat very small amounts at one time (if he has kibble he will only eat it one piece at a time!), and if he goes too many days without his lunch he does start to look very thin ... but obviously the amounts we feed are adjusted accordingly, they eat more often but they don't eat more. They go out at about 11.30pm, and then sleep through until 6.30am, well that's when Taran wakes up any way, think the other two would sleep all morning!

 

[pat cope]

Our lot get breakfast about 8.30 or 9.0 and main meal at 4.0. That gives them plenty of time before bed to go to toilet.

About 10.30 its everyone out, and I stand by door telling them to 'do poo'. I've kept to this routine and it works for me.

 

[Esty]

My two are 18 months old and have their breakfast at about 8 and the other meal at 3.30 - 4

The only other food they get is liver cake for training on walks and Grover usually manages to snaffle a crust or two off the counter if the lads leave their plates too close to the edge!

During the week they go out to the garden (only for a wee, usually) at about 10.30 (bit later at weekends.). They can last through the night and go out when my husband wakes at about 6.30am but come they straight back to bed with me for an hour They never wake up and cry to go out and I think if my OH wasn't awake anyway, they would stay in bed for longer (they sleep in their own beds in our room until they are allowed in with me for a morning cuddle

 

[TillynPip]

My two are fed at approx 9.00am and between 6/7.00pm. However, because I'm a night owl, their last walk can be 1.30/2.00 in the morning. Early night last night and they were walked at 12.15am (!) and this morning at 7.00am but never any accidents. Maybe it could be to do with what you feed rather than when?

 

[Nicola]

I think it can get to be a habit that you need to break. Reasons Fred used to wake up in the early hours were being cold and then deciding he needed the loo.......

Funnily enough I tried to feed Fred with smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day, rather than two larger ones to try and feed him up, and it upset his stomach. He copes well with 2 meals a day (Naturediet), one at 7.30 am and one at 6.30 pm. I usually take him out as soon as I get home, feed him, and then he gets a short walk last thing (9pm ish) to empty properly. He rarely needs to get up in the early hours unless he has the trots, or needs a wee.

 

[Hula]

I feed mine at 7 30 am and again at around 3pm . When they go into their bed last thing at night they get a biscuit . They never need out during the night unless they have an uset tum which doesn't happen often :thumbsup:

 

[blissed4ever]

Hi we feed am and pm usually about 6.30 am and 6 pm although its later in the morning if the puppy sleeps in and later in the evening if we're out for the day or have the afternoon walk later on. I also feed Puck, now 4 months old, at about 12 noon. The dogs go out when we go to bed about 9.30 to 10.30 depending what's on tv. Puck now sleeps in our room with the other dogs and doesn't get us up during the night very often whereas when he was sleeping downstairs in the kitchen he always cried at least once for us to go down and let him out. I think he was waking up lonely and was happy to go out providing we played with him.

Digestive transit does vary dog to dog - try feeding something distinctive and time its reappearance then you might be able to work out a feeding regime that means no nighttime poos.

 

[Whippets Rule]

I feed mine twice a day, sometimes I split the meals into three, after the vet told me off for feeding once a day...he said their blood sugar fluctuates and it was better for them to be fed twice or three times rather than letting them go so long as 24 hrs between meals....now I feed them at 5am before work then sometimes again at 2pm then again at 8pm....if I can only do two meals it is 5am and 4.30 pm with a small biscuit before bed at 10pm.