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Offline sarahm2008

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when to reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why?
« on: October 03, 2012, 07:51:12 PM »
what age do you reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why? Sandon is a little gannit bless him and I almost feel likes it a shame him only being fed twice aday albeit bigger meals rather than 3 and having those little puppy dog eyes make me feel terrible as I tuck into my tasty lunch!!!
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Re: when to reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2012, 08:02:46 PM »
I found with Jazz that she cut herself down to twice a day at about 6 months as she just stopped eating at lunch time.  I have since read that about 6 months is probably the right time anyway.

I must admit that with a 16wk old puppy that still needs a lunch feed I do feel a bit sorry for Jazz so have now cut her breakfast down a little bit and I give her a chicken wing while Bailey has her lunch in her pen.
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Re: when to reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why?
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2012, 08:03:32 PM »
Hmmm - well Penny is 3 1/2 and she still gets 3 meals. Mostly because it fits in with her and our routines and because I think she'd be chewing her legs off if she went more than 5 hours without some grub 'cos she is so greedy. I'm not sure if there are any perceived drawbacks to this - I suppose if she were a worker, then you wouldn't want them eating then going back out very soon after, but I can't think of much else. I'd be interested to know if there are any other issues I haven't thought about.
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Re: when to reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2012, 10:13:13 PM »
Found this link, hope its useful

http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/456
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Re: when to reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2012, 11:20:45 PM »
Archie steadfastly refuses to not have his third meal, even though it is now cut down to about a teaspoonful of food! I just go along with it. He seems to settle really easily in the evenings once he's had his "supper".
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Re: when to reduce from 3 meals to 2 and why?
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2012, 03:30:43 PM »
Quote from: Archie bean on October 04, 2012, 11:20:45 PM
Archie steadfastly refuses to not have his third meal, even though it is now cut down to about a teaspoonful of food! I just go along with it. He seems to settle really easily in the evenings once he's had his "supper".

In the past  with our pups we used to replace the lunch time feed with a Dentastick or something similar that took a few minutes to eat - seemed to work then just 'forget' to give it to them more and more often until they just forgot that they were supposed to have something to eat at lunchtime!
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