1. Tilda sits and waits while I dish up her food. She gets pretty excited and mostly won't stay sitting the whole time. She sometimes will get up and then sit and get up etc.
2. Tilda's food bowl before I picked it up to fill it with food. Yep, Tilda eats out of a frisbee. When she was a puppy, it seemed like she ate better with her food more spread out.
3. Tilda's food container. She eats Fromm Family Foods and has their Four Star Nutritionals Duck and Sweet Potato. She eats so much better ever since we switched her to this food.
4. Myself scooping out her food.
5. A scoop of Tilda's food. She gets a 1/2 cup of food twice a day.
6. Tilda's food in her bowl/frisbee.
7. I touch her food to put my scent on it.
8. After I touch it I put it down on the floor. Now Tilda REALLY does have to stay and wait until I release her. While she waits I rinse off my hand and dry them.
9. Tilda sitting waiting to be released.
10. Or sometimes I make her go down and stay. She has to look at me to be released.
11. I release Tilda by using the "Free" command. "Free" is her release command for anytime she is released, including the agility table. I like "Free" better than "OK" because it isn't a common word people will say.
12. Tilda still eating.
13. All done. Since we switched Tilda to Fromm she finishes her food. Before we switched her, she wouldn't always finish. I wouldn't leave her food down though because I don't like self feeding. One reason that I don't like self feeding is that you might not be able to tell if your dog is sick. If you're not paying attention to your dog eating, you might not notice if they haven't had anything to eat for the day or you don't know how much they eat.
Maybe you think from all these pictures and writing that it takes a little while to feed Tilda. That is not true though, it really doesn't take very long to feed her.
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