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Slow feeder

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GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 29/10/2020 07:53

I'm looking for recommendations for a slow feeder bowl for a middling-sized dog. The bowl needs to be easy to clean as I'm a lazy bint, and fairly robust as we have a puppy.

The puppy dithers around over her enormous puppy portions, wants to see what the other dogs are eating, wants to say hello to the human who has just come into the room etc. She's not being over-fed, she just lacks the food obsession of one of our other dogs... Who suctions her small adult portion down in about 20 secs, and then stands staring at the puppy, which of course distracts and eventually unnerves said puppy.

Greedy-guts is often removed from the room and the door shut, but that in itself distracts Princess Pissabout, who wants to know where her surrogate mother has gone.

Suggestions welcome!

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IOwnDogsNotFrogs · 29/10/2020 07:57

I have these ones from Fetch.
Make a massive difference to the speed my dogs can eat and then I just run them under the outside tap with a squirt of detergent to clean.

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PollyRoulson · 29/10/2020 08:47

Scatter feed the food for the fast eater. Throw the food on the grass and leave them to it. Keep puppy indoors to eat their food obvioulsy

BloodyCreateUsername · 29/10/2020 08:54

My dogs adore each other but I always feed them separately, not worth the falling out in my opinion. Some dogs are always fine around each other’s food but some aren’t.

Also, depends on the size of your dog but a large ball (or for my frenchie a tennis ball) works well just placed in the middle of their food and they have to eat around it works as a slow feeder. I don’t like the bowls because they’re grim to clean and come in awful colours so I’ve always used something called a gobble stopper which is a great little product and they’re on eBay. It just suctions into the middle of the bowl and dog eats around it.

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 29/10/2020 12:16

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

I'd rather feed the dogs indoors together as the puppy likes the company Confused

The gobble stopper sounds a good idea - anything easy to clean gets my vote!

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