Strange things your pets do...

[orezok]

You may want to look at that as a hint from your dog to raise your dog’s feeding bowl onto a platform.
Dogs need to eat at a height that’s healthy for swallowing and good digestion.


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I don’t know. She seems to swallow just fine and then goes and lies down while digesting. Should I make her stand up for a couple of hours after eating?

 

[Hay Dude]

I don’t know. She seems to swallow just fine and then goes and lies down while digesting. Should I make her stand up for a couple of hours after eating?

No, just while eating.
She can go lie down and pass gas after eating. Like me.

 

[MossRoad]

I don’t know. She seems to swallow just fine and then goes and lies down while digesting. Should I make her stand up for a couple of hours after eating?

Have you ever seen a dog put a dead rabbit on a little table before eating it??? No.

There are a couple of studies out there that question the value of raised feeders and show they may promote bloating. Best to consult your vet.

It may help with dogs that have physical problems bending down, but for the most part, nothing shows they are beneficial to already healthy dogs.

Are Dogs That Are Fed from a Raised Bowl at an Increased Risk of Gastric Dilation Volvulus Compared with Floor-Fed Dogs? | Veterinary Evidence

The Veterinary Evidence journal. Publication of the RCVS Knowledge

veterinaryevidence.org

 

[Runner]

Our dogs would rather eat off the floor, so much so that they will take food out of their dish and set it on the floor to eat.

 

[WinterDeere]

This is the most "first world" debate I've heard in awhile. No way are folks in sub-Saharin Africa, or your own depression-era forefathers, debating the ideal serving height for their dog's food bowl.

 

[dmccarty]

Question for you fellow terror owners: we have a Boston Terrier, 2 years old, that wants to play more hours per day than we have time to entertain it, or at times we’re just not available. It seems a second dog is in order, so she has a playmate.

We’ve done the dual dog thing before, we had two mini Pinschers at the same time previously, but although they just passed two years ago, it has been too many years since they were young pups for me to remember how advantageous or painful that was.

We have two adoption candidates, both 2 - 4 years old, one being another female Boston terrier and the other a French bulldog. The frenchie is a true couch potato, just wants to sleep or cuddle all day, the Boston terrier is the typical terror.

So, the question is, which would be a better playmate for our dog, and either have an overall calming effect on her, or give her someone to play with when we cannot?

I’m leaning toward the second Boston, but worry it might increase rather than decrease our overall time commitment. On the flip side, the couch potato may displace our present dog’s evening cuddle time with the kids, which could have a detrimental effect.

My two cents is that the dogs need to have the same energy level, character and size Breed certainly will impact energy level, character and size but age is important too.

So, my vote would be the terrier since they are of similar age and energy level, size, and character.

 

[Molalla1]

Drones will freak out my German shepherd.

I kept hearing a buzzing sound but couldn't see it at first.

Boy the hackles stood up on gypsy's back, and she was looking at it and growling.

Thats when I looked up and realized it was a drone.

Then we were off!!!! I got dragged back home. She was having none of that mess

Friend of mine was over, and he brought his new very spendy drone with him. He was showing some of the things that he was capable of doing with it . . . and he noticed how my dog (Ausie) was reacting to it, so the lame brain started teasing him with it . . . now my Ausie is very much a working dog (cattle) well, I told him that he had better knock it off, he didn't, and when he swooped it down again my dog grabbed it out of the air and crushed it in his mouth dropped it when I told him to and came over to my side and sat . . .

 

[Jstpssng]

Friend of mine was over, and he brought his new very spendy drone with him. He was showing some of the things that he was capable of doing with it . . . and he noticed how my dog (Ausie) was reacting to it, so the lame brain started teasing him with it . . . now my Ausie is very much a working dog (cattle) well, I told him that he had better knock it off, he didn't, and when he swooped it down again my dog grabbed it out of the air and crushed it in his mouth dropped it when I told him to and came over to my side and sat . . .

Another reason I like dogs more than most people.

The first time I worked in NY we were staying at a little inn in the Adirondacks. The owner liked my dog and would go get her if I left her in my room. One night she was laying on the floor minding her own business chewing on a bone. Someone thought he'd impress the waitress by teasing my dog, and tried to take her bone.
It was the only time in 14 years that she ever snarled at anybody; also the only tims in my life I ever levitated. One second I was sitting at the bar; the next I was 10 feet away and had lifted her off the floor by the scruff of her neck. "You -do-not-growl-at-people!"
He even said it was his fault. Furthermore
I should have intervened sooner. But if she wanted to hang out in public places she had to understand that some people are a-holes but she's just a dog. Otherwise she can stay in the truck.

 

[RandyT]

My dog eats laying down all the time.

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I had a lab mix that ate laying down behind the food bowl. For him it was a learned trait because if he laid down the other dogs wouldn't growl or try to attack him..

 

[RandyT]

Have you ever seen a dog put a dead rabbit on a little table before eating it??? No.

There are a couple of studies out there that question the value of raised feeders and show they may promote bloating. Best to consult your vet.

It may help with dogs that have physical problems bending down, but for the most part, nothing shows they are beneficial to already healthy dogs.

Are Dogs That Are Fed from a Raised Bowl at an Increased Risk of Gastric Dilation Volvulus Compared with Floor-Fed Dogs? | Veterinary Evidence

The Veterinary Evidence journal. Publication of the RCVS Knowledge

veterinaryevidence.org

Had a dog that when he caught a rabbit that he was going to ear right away would kill it and eat it. If he wanted to save it for later he would bury it alive. He would eat red squirrel when he caught them, but would bury the grey squirrels for a week before eating to tenderize them.

My current dog will catch a squirrel and want you to hold it while he eats it.