How does your dog let you know they're hungry?

• Terri Posted : 8/11/2006 12:35:19 PM I feed my boys twice a day--usually 12 and 8pm. Now that they're used to the feeding schedule, they don't come tell me they're hungry for the most part. However, for the first couple of months we had Odin, he was absolutely positive that he was starving to death and had to eat all the time. He'd run as fast as he could between his food bowl and me. No matter where I was, he'd zoom back and forth to get my attention. Always cracked me up.   My friend has a boxer who will not tolerate any variation in his feeding times. Promptly at 6 pm, he will walk to the kitchen and let out a boxer howl (aarooooo) real sad like. If you don't respond immediately, he'll walk over and put his head on you til you feed him. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Benedict Posted : 8/11/2006 12:42:39 PM Ben doesn't really do anything either, he gets fed at regular times.  He does push his water bowl over to my desk when I am working if it needs to be refilled.   Kate 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sillysally Posted : 8/11/2006 1:03:10 PM ORIGINAL: hlb118 Beau and Sasha are fed after we eat dinner. They know that they have to wait patiently until we're done. And once I get up, it's time for dinner. They don't eat their food during the day. I have tried several times, but it's just a waste. And yes, the cat is terrible. Of course it's my fault for giving in, but he HAS to be fed or he will wilt away. Or so he thinks. Every morning, and every night. I swear I step on him 5 times a day while he's chasing me through the house.   We have 2 cats, and while one just mills around, the other one yowls like you're skinning her.  DH feeds the cats and often Sally too, and has actually forgotten to feed Sally before becasue he is so used to the cats reminding him. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• dasher Posted : 8/11/2006 1:45:00 PM Our guys don't do anything. Lille used to get antzy around dinner time and dance around whenever you would get up but she doesn't do it too often b/c she realized that dancing around would not get her fed. []  They are fed on pretty regular schedules.    Our cats are another story...[8D] They were cut from the same cloth as sillysally and hlb118's cats. [] They act like they are dying from hunger and howl like alley cats when its close to dinner or breakfast.  It got so bad in the mornings that we now confine them to the basement overnight (thats where their food, litter and toys are) b/c they would start racing up and down the stairs and howling at about 4 a.m. in an effort to get us to feed them. [8|] They are more high maintinance than the doggies!! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jetty Posted : 8/11/2006 1:51:13 PM Dodger will either bring me his food bowl or he will stare at me and start grumbling, stress yawning and chewing his leg. []   Minnow-cat will yowl if her food bowl is empty, if that doesn't work she will knock it off the window ledge and if that doesn't work she will stalk me in heel position and then jump onto my back - she isn't subtle![]  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• bragg1120 Posted : 8/11/2006 3:33:43 PM Gracie will put her head in my lap & stare at me (BIG sad eyes) then do the same thing to hubby.  Sometimes she'll paw at the empty bowl until it flips over.  I don't think Trixie does anything out of the ordinary... she's always bouncing off walls anyway.   If their waterdish is empty, they lick it and then walk into the bathroom & start licking & pawing at the bathtub [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Alexis Posted : 8/11/2006 3:38:53 PM Usually when we get home from work, the first thing I do is let them out.  By 6:15 Charlie is staring at his bowl and won't leave the kitchen.  Lily on the otherhand eats whenever. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Debbie R Posted : 8/11/2006 3:53:55 PM Mine are fed twice a day on a schedule so they don't do anything either. Seems like we've learned a behavioral correction w/o even trying[sm=rofl.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Caprice Christian Posted : 8/11/2006 3:59:02 PM I feed my dogs three times a day.  They never ask for food, they are usually way to preoccupied with playing, I have to make them take time to eat.   Now if I have food, they will ask for what I am having... but dog food, nah! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 8/11/2006 4:04:33 PM My dogs have been taught that if it isn't in their bowl it isn't theirs.  I can walk off and leave my lunch on my desk and come back to find it untouched. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sierra2002 Posted : 8/11/2006 4:10:30 PM ORIGINAL: glenmar My dogs have been taught that if it isn't in their bowl it isn't theirs.  I can walk off and leave my lunch on my desk and come back to find it untouched. Me too [] Same goes with the garbage I can even put my plate on the floor and get up and leave and she will sniff it from a distance, but won't touch it. She knows its mine, and respects that. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jones Posted : 8/11/2006 5:44:50 PM Russell always gets his dinner between 6 and 6.30 but if he's hungry he'll "ask" for dinner by staring at me in a certain way - I don't know why but I can always read his mind and I know he's asking for dinner. If his timing is off (and sometimes it is by as much as an hour, lol) I tell him he has to wait, if he's on time I ask him "do you want dinner?" and he runs to his bowl. [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Julitza Posted : 8/11/2006 9:28:57 PM When I get anywhere near the kicthen Lizzie will dash to her feeding place and sit down, and look at me with these pitiful eyes. If Im warming up a bit of canned or im preparing her meal she sits up even straighter and looks like a little army pup.   Cats on the other hand. I had a Siamese mix a while back, she was an outside cat and in the mornings I would always catch her sitting in front of the door and soon as I opened the door she start yowling worse than a tomcat, whoever heard her would say I was killing her. I NEVER forgot to feed her! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• astaracheetah Posted : 8/11/2006 10:03:08 PM If I fed my dog every time she let me know she was hungry, she'd weigh 300 lbs lol... They both eat 3 times per day at a set time, with bones/kongs/a couple treats in between. >^^;< 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sarah wilson Posted : 8/12/2006 12:00:56 PM Kian does'nt do any thing, as i feed him twice a day &  if he wants anything inbetween, he will follow me til i guess what it is, could be a treat or extra attension. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login