When To Move To 2 Feeds A Day?

[madbella]

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Austin is just over 6 months now and we have been thinking about moving to 2 feeds a day instead of 3.

We have reduced his lunch, but he doesn't seem to interested in giving it up yet!

Shall we just keep reducing it and then give him a bonio as a snack at lunch time, or wait until he is ready to not have lunch?

 

[Janimal]

Archie is 10 months and still on 3 meals a day. I just tend to go on what they look like....he tends to be a bit lean so he will stay on his three meals a day until I dont think he needs the midday one... :thumbsup: which looks like quite a while away yet.

 

[madbella]

Thankyou, that is what I was kind of thinking.

Austin is quite a fine whippet, rather than stocky and I thought that all the time he wants to eat (regular meals) and doesn't get fat he can have what he wants.

 

[Trish]

olivers just short of 9 months and he still comes to the kitchen for his dinner so hes still on three meals plus a few biscuits and goats milk for supper too :thumbsup:

 

[jinnyfizz]

It's definitely horses for courses or dogs for dinners :lol:

Each one is individual and I think you have to judge by Austin's shape and energy levels :thumbsup: If he wants and needs 3 meals then let him have 3 meals.

Jinny wouldn't eat as a pup and is still fussy. She just has two chicken wings in the morning and then a main raw evening meal. I have Beta Active down for the GSDs and she helps herself to that if she feels hungry! That way she feels she's stealing and will eat it :lol:

Ella, on the other hand, will eat most things and is a stocky whippet prone to putting on weight. At the moment she is turning into a staffie and I've got to find a way to reduce her intake :lol:

 

[madbella]

Thanks guys. I'll keep him on 3 meals a day then.

He always has pleanty of energy and is on junior food now, with adult meat in the morning.

Although he will settle on the sofa with you so he isn't bouncing off the walls all the time!!

 

[Trish]

It's definitely horses for courses or dogs for dinners :lol: Each one is individual and I think you have to judge by Austin's shape and energy levels :thumbsup: If he wants and needs 3 meals then let him have 3 meals.

Jinny wouldn't eat as a pup and is still fussy. She just has two chicken wings in the morning and then a main raw evening meal.  I have Beta Active down for the GSDs and she helps herself to that if she feels hungry!  That way she feels she's stealing and will eat it :lol:

Ella, on the other hand, will eat most things and is a stocky whippet prone to putting on weight.  At the moment she is turning into a staffie  and I've got to find a way to reduce her intake :lol:

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a good way to reduce weight is to give less food and bulk it out with tinned green beans,millies been on this diet for over a year now :thumbsup:

she was a dreadful 40lb girl and im proud to say she now is weighing in at 28lb :thumbsup: she looks loads better and her energy levels have gone way up,now shes enjoying life to the full again :huggles: