I keep seeing slow feed bowls and was wondering if anyone had done something yourself. Maya is such a fast eater. We feed her 3 times a day but she scarfs her food so fast she coughs it back up and re-eats it. I think that might also be a reason for her terrible gas? Any ideas are welcomed please!

Brake-Fast bowl... slowed Luna's meals down from 45 seconds to like 2 minutes, which is as good as anything. http://www.brake-fast.net/

Use a muffin tin. Less expensive and it will do the same thing.

PamK wrote:Use a muffin tin. Less expensive and it will do the same thing.

That is brilliant... but I am positive Luna would smack it with her foot and flip it over, sending her food flying everywhere across the kitchen floor. Which would be great for slowing down her eating, but very hard on Luna's borderline OCD mom!

I have to admit that it was my trainers idea, not an original thought.

PamK wrote:Use a muffin tin. Less expensive and it will do the same thing.

What a wonderful idea, we will have to try that.

mayamoodoggiedoo wrote:

PamK wrote:Use a muffin tin. Less expensive and it will do the same thing.

What a wonderful idea, we will have to try that.

Very smart! I had to improvise when I had my foster Minnie, she would just inhale her food and not even chew a single piece of kibble so some days I would hand feed her to slow her down.

We put a heavy smaller bowl upside down in Della's food bowl so she has to work around it to get her kibble. This helps a lot!!

I use some kind of canned food. I had bought something (I don't remember what) but no one here would eat it. I took the label off and put it in their bowls and it also worked for slowing down eating time it is easy to clean up to I just put the bowl and the can stuff in the dish water and wash it all.

I had the same prob with my Dal. I tried putting objects in the bowl, but he would just take them out and scarf his food down. I now use a non tip bowl and flip it upside down and put the food in the ring. ( Sounds confusing, but you'll see what I mean when you look at one) Worked great. If your top is a bowl flipper, try to find a heavy one. good luck!

My new foster was a total inhaler. He ate 2 cups of kibble in about 20 seconds. I added kongs and even the canned food and it only slowed him down to about 30 seconds. Finally I added water and he is at 5 minutes! I know you are not supposed to soak kibble, but he eats it before it gets soaked and they always had a big drink of water afterwards and now they don't drink much. He even behaves "calmer" while he is eating. He was too excited. I have also made him sit, lie down and wait with the bowl on the floor until I tell him it is ok. Funny too, because as soon as I have the food ready he doesn't need me to tell him, he is already in the down and waiting with a smile! I'll have to try a muffin tin or the upside bowl (I have that kind.)

By the way- sometimes I feed my dog raw and when I offered it to the new foster he smelled it, licked it and didn't know what to do even with another dog eating raw meat! I had to give him kibble. I had never seen a dog that didn't know what to do with raw meat and he is only 1 year old.

We use the Brake-fast bowl and it has slowed lily from a 1 min meal to about a 7 min meal. It has changed her demeanor while eating. Its not such a vaccum-fest anymore, more of a take your time and enjoy it Meal!

This is the one Weim trait that Marley does not have. She chews everything really well and rarely scarfs. Sometimes she carries it into the living room, drops it and then eats, and sometimes I find food on the windowsills where she sets it when she gets distracted

Zoie lives to eat, so she fits into our family well. When our "granddogs" are over and everyone is eating she really goes into gooble mode. My husband also flipped the bowl over and put her food into the ring. I wouldn't say that it slows her down to a 7 minute meal but it does slow her down. I thought that he was brillant!

Sophie is an inhaler too. You would think the poor girl hasn't eaten in days the way she swallows her food whole. She was having a problem with growling while she ate so I'm hand feeding. It takes some time but she hasn't "re-eaten" anything since, doesn't inhale and doesn't growl anymore. In between each handful I wait for her to sit and maintain eye contact with me for several seconds. It's been kinds bonding!