..and another question....

Dogs with preventive stomach stabililization to prevent future torsion.........what do we know of how this procedure would impact the dog who had had this procedure done? I am still debating it but want to spay before heat #2 and that would be the time to do it.

Ok, i'll bite on the completely full stomach theory - if that's how they're "built" then so be it. Can't argue with that one, and i might look into it more as a reason to feed only once a day.

however, the "urks" as they've been so pleasantly referred to, are going to take place when your dog thinks it's eatin' time, no matter how many times a day. If you feed your dog once a day, and that happens at 9-10 pm, isn't he gonna start pumping stomach juice @ 8:45 just as much as a dog fed twice a day would come his normal eating times?

seems like the only fix to not "accidentally" programming that internal response is to make feeding time totally random. ("hey, look boy - someone left a dead yak carcass in the lawn. better eat what you can now, no tellin' how long til the next one comes along...")

personally, i put enough thought into making sure my dog gets a healthy, natural, well balanced diet. He gets fed when i get around to it in the morning, and again when i get around to at night. I don't need to start worrying and watching the clock to make sure he's eating 15 minutes earlier or an hour later than the day before...

Just my opinion.

I have found feeding every other day doesn't affect the food drive when training. I usually feed in the evening after training so they have all night for digestion. But my dogs have very good food drive. Their motto is "Ate--is not enough!"

Well living in the great state of Florida, my dogs would be dead at this point as I have not been forunate enough for someone to leave a Yak carcass on my lawn. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

John, I left you a yak carcass last week.

I can't help it if you are dumb enough to live in place where the gators come up and drag off your dog food .... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Just kidding -- I grew up on Merritt Island which was a wildlife refuge even in the 60s. Gators got plenty of dogs those days......

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Nancy, I'll get back to you on that point after I'm done getting off the floor from laughing so hard! Man after the week I've had, I NEEDED that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />