why do dogs always eat like they're starving?

Question

I;ve never met a dog who didn't eat all its food in one gulp practically. Wonder why they do that?

Answer 1

i think because they don't have a mental shut off in their mind telling them they aren't hungry... imagine if they drove and went to fast food drive thrus

Answer 2

Because they are starving.

Processed commercial dog foods don't have enough nutrition available for a dog to get enough to be completely healthy. It is filled with bulk such as wheat, corn, rice, flax, etc. Dogs are carnivores, and they should be fed a diet consisting of raw meaty bones, organs, and hide, hooves, ears etc. when you can get them. Plant matter blocks up their digestive system, it gives bacteria a chance to colonize, it makes large, smelly poops, and it is nutritionally vacant.

If all you ever ate was Frito's, you'd be starving all the time, except for the few minutes that you just ate your bag of Frito's. Your body would be begging for something with the appropriate nutrition in it for your species, and that's what a dog's body is doing. Check the label on your dog food. If there is plants in it, it is starving your dog of the proper balance diet that your dog requires to truly be healthy.

I have two German Shepherd Dogs that don't eat like they're starving. In fact, I fed them day before yesterday. They each had a beef kidney, a chunk of beef heart and a turkey breast and if I tried to give them a few pounds of meat right now, they wouldn't finish it.

There is nothing more satisfying in the world than watching your dog happily tearing the meat off of a bone. It is what they were designed to do.

Answer 3

It's the call of the wild, they don't know where their next meal will be coming from, or when, so they try to finish it before something else does. That is why, too, when they are full, they will often bury what is left over to save it for later. If a dog is fed on a regular basis, say 3 times a day, this action will subside.

Answer 4

A dog that is being fed crappy food is always gulping and starving. They aren't getting proper nutrition. I haven't seen a dog that eats like that, my dogs eat food nicely no gulping.. They get good food and good nutrition.

Answer 5

It is odd. I have several dogs and some act like they haven't eaten in days and others like to graze and take their sweet time eating. The ones that eat real fast are under 1 yr old, so it could be that they are really hungry since I only feed 2 times a day.

Answer 6

I have a Bichon Frise and he never gulps his food. I can feed him from my hand and he very gently takes just a little bite at a time, if at all.
I have a friend that had a very large dog that was part wolf. That huge dog also ate very gently.
So large or small, not all dogs are gulpers.

Answer 7

Well they came from wolves, and when wolves lived in the wild, when they had food, they had to eat it fast before some other animal could take it away. It was like eating as fast as you can for your own life. They were probably racing against eachother too. If a dog was eating to slow, he probably wouldn't get to eat at all.

Answer 8

I feed my canines Blue Buffalo and in my opinion the feeding classes on the area of the bag are in user-friendly terms a generic handbook. one among my canines is doing particularly properly on the quantity listed on the bag, he's been gradually at a healthful weight for his age/breed because of the fact that we've been given via the 1st bag some months in the past. My different dogs is the top opposite, I feed her approximately two times as lots because of the fact the bag recommends and that i think of if I fed her any below I do she could rapidly substitute into underweight. I additionally chop up their on a regular basis volume of nutrition over 3 food particularly of two because of the fact i think of if I had to attend 12 hours between food i could headscarf it down and look for greater too! you need to purpose supplementing the dry nutrition with some canned nutrition or basically develop the dry nutrition. each dogs might require a different volume too, we've a feeding chart on the refrigerator at my homestead with how lots each dogs gets and whoever feeds them any particular meal marks down the time they have been fed. it is likewise accessible that they at the instant are not easily hungry after the meal yet are looking for any leftovers to confirm they get it earlier the different canines. you need to purpose feeding them in separate rooms and notice if that facilitates

Answer 9

Most do but my black lab I have now is a grazer.

They do it because they are still part wolf and still have the mentality of the pack animal in the wild with respect to food. You eat when you can get it and before somebody else comes along to try to take it away from you.

Answer 10

it is because dogs are pack animals in nature, and also opportunistic...

they would just assume eat something dead along the side of the road, or a pile of poop, than have to kill something themselves.

they eat like they are starving because in nature they have to eat as much poop as possible before the other dogs in their pack eat their share.

the next time your dog eats like that, know that they are thinking... "stay away from my poop mr."

Answer 11

Dogs don't have the same sensory system we have that tells us when we are full. Poor dogs. What also sucks is they have to relieve themselves in the freezing cold, at least in the winter where I am from.