When to start feeding puppy 2 times a day
HOW TO FEED A DOG OR PUPPY CORRECTLY 🐶 How many times a day you should feed your dog
when you feed your dog how many times a
day you feed your dog can change
everything from reducing inflammation
improving a dog's behavior and even
stopping those annoying and obviously
uncomfortable hunger pukes this is
something that I have learned through
trial and error with my dogs as well as
all of the rescue dogs that I have
fostered I have a ton of experience with
feeding dogs so in this video I'm going
to share a new way of thinking when it
comes to your dog's feeding schedule and
be sure to stay until the end because
after I share with you when I feed my
dog and why it's so important I'm going
to share with you some bonus tips
specifically around proper hydration and
more so let's jump into this video right
yeah
short answer I am a big advocate of
feeding your dog one time a day and
changing up the time at which you feed
every single day but wait hear me out
because there are three caveats and I'm
gonna go into great detail on all of
these so just make sure you stay tuned
but three cabinets are the dog's age the
dogs medical and health specific needs
if any and third last but not least is
you your schedule because yes boo yes
you matter when it comes to the timing
and the frequency at which you feed your
dog let's just jump into the damn thing
I'm gonna start off with adult dogs and
then I'll jump in to puppies but of
course I'm gonna caveat everything with
partner with your holistic and or
integrative veterinarian if you have any
medical or health concerns but these are
just the ways that I feed my dogs and my
foster dogs and the reason I do it again
is because I have found it hugely and
massively beneficial to both their
bodies internal health as well as their
mental how do you have a dog that just
before meal time they start pacing
around you like a shark nudging you with
their cold nose starting to act out or
even worse hunger pukes comment below
before I go into that do your dog this
does your dog do any of those things
just before meals and I start
asking questions doing some research and
testing different ways and times of
feeding my dogs I learned really quickly
that if you think about a dog and what
they actually are which is a dog very
closely related to a wolf no wolf in the
wild eats breakfast lunch and dinner
same time every day all throughout the
year they eat once a day if that and
sometimes they don't even eat for a full
day and I'm not sitting here saying that
my dogs are wolves what I am saying is I
had a little bit of a problem which I
think if you're watching this video you
do - your dog may be begging you for
meals or acting out if you miss a meal
the way that I combated all of those
things and this is so simple and I wish
more people talked about this is I
started feeding my dogs once a day I
hear this all the time I could never
imagine feeding my dog only once a day
they'd be so angry at me but guess whose
fault that is if that's your reality
it's your fault
and I mean that respectfully because I
was right there with you the hogs and
animals in general we're very rarely
ever meant to be following a super
structure schedule in anything they do
randomness and variety is the spice of
line you feed your dog at the exact same
time every single day not only does the
dog mentally start expecting that food
and that's why they might be acting out
and begging for it and demanding it but
their body biologically starts expecting
and preparing for that meal and what I
mean by that is if you usually feed your
dog 8:00 a.m. at about 7:30 7:45 most
dogs if there have been on a really
strict routine their stomach and gastric
acid is gonna start building up in
preparation to digest the food that you
are about to feed them and if you do
this every single day for 2 3 15 10
years of their life what's going to
happen is the body becomes smart our
body our body and our dog's bodies are
adaptive they're intelligent and they're
set up to help us survive and thrive and
so if the body is used to getting a meal
every single
day a a.m. then you better believe just
before 8:00 a.m. the body is gonna start
preparing itself to digest the food that
it's expecting to be prepared and what
it does in the way that it does that
again is building up gastric acids also
known as bile that's when you see a
lotta dogs start vomiting either
throughout the day or just the for
mealtime because the gastric acid starts
building up in preparation to digest the
proteins and the fats and the macro
micronutrients of the food that you're
expecting and preparing to feed the dog
and of course that bile and that acid in
an empty stomach because you haven't fed
yet causes discomfort and the body wants
to rid of it and that's when you get a
hunger abuse and the same goes for your
dog's behavior if you have a dog like me
who is extremely food motivated you
might find that you might find that your
dog starts tearing things up or just
acting out in general when it comes to
mealtime or like I said before demanding
you from mealtime and that can be
frustrating because we all live a life
and sometimes things change so how did
you sleep bins and I'm just you're sick
and you can't feed them right away and
it's annoying candidly we love our dogs
don't get me wrong I have a youtube
channel dedicated to my dog so I get it
I feel you these are all the reasons
that I decided to explore different and
new ways of thinking when it comes to
feeding and that's when I started
learning about the importance of just
feeding once a day in addition to that
not just feeding once a day but changing
up the time of day that I feed as well
frequently so it's not 8 a.m. every day
8 a.m. one day
it's 6:30 p.m. another day it's 2:15
p.m. another day and keep it completely
random and the way that this helps your
dog both mental health and physical
health is think about it your dog eats
two or three times a day especially in a
dry food diet the body is gonna have
glucose spikes or to think of blood
sugar they're gonna have insulin spikes
both of these things during the spike
period can lead to inflammation in the
body and that actually applies to you as
well but that's not what this video is
about and so when you're when you're
having your dog goes these peaks and
valleys that can lead to inflammation
multiple times throughout the day that
in my
pinyin is not ideal for most dogs and I
wanted to eliminate that with both my
boys through feeding only once a day and
feeding a low carb diet if you guys want
a video on what type of food I recommend
that I like and prefer for most dogs
click the video up here a whole series
on that and link down below and when you
feed only once a day you're giving the
dogs GI tract in their digestive system
a chance to rest this is something that
I just I just don't see a lot of content
out there on I know buddy but it is so
incredibly valuable because the dog's
digestive system and their GI tract has
a direct correlation with their immunity
and I'm not trying to I'm not trying to
do biology and anatomy and physiology
101 with you guys I'm just trying to
break this down in common sense when you
are feeding your dog meals multiple
times a day the GI tract never really
gets a chance to fully rest but if you
feed your dog once a day that means
there's a bigger gap of time between
feedings
and that means that like I said the GI
tract tract can rest but it also means
that the body in between feedings
because there's a longer time frame it's
not being acts asked to digest and
absorb nutrients from large amounts of
food and that means that it gets a
chance to really metabolize the fat that
you've fed the dog the proteins in the
car especially if you have a dog who is
always seeming to be hungry and you feel
like you can never satiate them feeding
them only once a day can help and that's
because there's a longer time between
each feeding obviously she's only
feeding once a day and so the body
becomes better at metabolizing the fat
the pro to the nutrients in the food and
getting all the nutrients out of it and
excreting all of the toxins and things
that the body doesn't need and the
reason that works is because you're
giving the body more time to digest the
food you're not asking the body to
absorb and digest large amounts of
nutrients every three four or five or
six hours a dog's body they're
scavengers they were never biologically
meant in my opinion they would
or biologically meant to be eating on
rigid schedules like a child human they
were meant to eat when they could find
food and scavenge food and so the way
that I feed my dogs I believe is more in
tune with the way that they were
naturally supposed to eat so you may be
watching and going okay this all sounds
good feeding once a day but but I don't
know how to do this and what about what
time to feed them I'm feeling
overwhelmed so just wait a second I'll
give you a schedule and kind of tell you
how to slowly transition to this if you
decide you want to do this in just a
minute but let's first talk about time
if the dog is never mentally and even
naturally able to predict when and what
time feeding is going to be every day
the body is never gonna have a chance to
start building up the bile and the
gastric acid in the stomach because the
dog is never going to be expecting food
and you better bet that over time once
you've switched to once a day feeding at
random times the dog is going to be less
likely to beg and start acting out and
demanding dinnertime or breakfast or
lunch because they don't know when
they're gonna eat and I know you may be
thinking Rachel that's just not that
doesn't seem right I wouldn't want to
eat once a day why would my dog want to
eat once say well I actually also
believe that humans could do better and
could be healthier many of us not all
could be better if we actually ate less
frequently our bodies we don't need to
be consuming food every two three four
hours now I'm a little bit of a
hypocrite because I feel like I want to
eat all the times I love food but what
I'm trying to say is you may think it's
cruel to feed your dog once a day and
maybe it's not the best for your dog but
for me the reason why I feel really good
about it is I don't have dogs demanding
for food I don't have hunger pukes
anymore like I had before which imagine
that that's really uncomfortable for
dogs they're confident that they know
they're going to get fed it's random and
they get more delighted
throughout the day when they get fed
versus just expecting it and demanding
it and it's just created a stronger bond
and relationship between my dogs and
myself and for me personally I talked
about this in the beginning about you
including you and that you're important
some days I might get up extra early or
some days I might work later in the day
and their feeding times what I used to
have them on this schedule what their
would would vary and it always caused
such a ruckus in the house the dogs
would be angry be frustrated
I would then get frustrated because they
were acting out and jumping all over me
and I'm trying to get worked so now
we're in a position and we're in a time
of our life makes me sound old where
they just they know they're gonna get
fed I feed them the right amounts
they're still getting the proper amount
of calories and you're all in you're
ready to go
you want to try this out but you don't
really know where to start or how so I'm
gonna go into the how you can start
transitioning into this type of feeding
schedule and then I have two bonus tips
one about proper hydration and one about
healthy eating habits so definitely stay
tuned for that but first let's talk
about how if you're currently feeding
three times a day then maybe go down to
two times a day same amount and quantity
of food I'm not saying to feed them less
and do this gradually maybe what's best
for your dog is instead of feeding them
three or four times a day you only feed
them two so they still get large chunks
of time between each feet meal but you
don't feel like you're starving your dog
and we can talk about timing and that
just keep it random don't overdo it over
stressing like let's say you normally
feed them breakfast right before you
walk out the door for work or for school
at 8:00 a.m. okay maybe some days when
you first wake up you feed the copy's
puppies very important in my opinion and
from what I've researched with what I've
learned to feed them multiple times a
day everything that I can dig my teeth
into has said that at minimum three
times a day for puppies and when I say
puppies I mean dogs under 12 to 18
months of age I know that's what I
thought a puppy was eight weeks no dogs
are continuing to grow most of them at
least at rapid rates up to 12 to 18
months some of them even 24 months old
puppies grow extremely fast
so you want to make sure that you're
supplying proper nutrients frequently
enough so that they grow healthy and
properly and bonus tips here we go boom
make sure that it feeding times you're
not just putting the bowl down there use
feeding time as training times work with
them work on sits work on downs and if
you need training things you can do
during mealtime click the video up here
and on watch the videos down below I
have a ton of ideas for you the second
thing is I want to ask you guys and I
want you to comment this down below how
frequently are you washing your dog's
food bowl and water bowl no matter what
you're feeding your dog I recommend that
you rinse out and clean your dog's food
bowl and water bowl at least every other
day many people will say every single
day some people will say I never wash
their bowls here's the thing guys here's
the thing whether you feed kibble raw
food whatever it is there's bacteria in
the food and if you let that fester for
a while and it creates a little bit of a
slime around the bowl that that's not
going to be healthy for any living being
for this bonus tip and this is more for
those of you who are feeding a raw fresh
food diet only way you can help your dog
feel satisfied longer is feeding them a
lower carb higher fat diet if you feed
them a diet that's more rich in healthy
raw fats healthy raw proteins the dog is
gonna be satiated longer just just like
you are I all right guys I want you to
comment below how many times do you feed
your dog a day and is that at the same
time every day and what happens I want
you to comment what happens if you try
not to feed your dog at this same time
if you don't know I want you to try and
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