>My girls (especially the middle one!) wolf down their food as if they are starving, but they never are.

Exactly like mine. I can put a plate of food on the coffee table and they'll leave it alone without being told (I never thought I'd be able to say that with a dalmatian!) but when I prepare their dinners they bounce and bark with excitement and scoff it down quickly with every sign of enjoyment.

That's impressive Jackson :-)
If I left my roast on the floor Oscar would certainly gobble it up as soon as I walked away. If I drop food he will leave it until I say though.....usually!

I have such an obedient little cav girl....you can leave a whole plate of cream cakes on the coffee table and leave her alone with them for ages. No one would ever think she'd touched them until you bit into one and all the cream was missing! :-) Not a drop of cream on her face and sleeping soundly in a corner of the sofa. Small dog - very long tongue.

Had to laugh about the cream cakes.  I left a plate of eclairs on the side in the kitchen, went back and one was missing, we blamed my granddaughter as she was the only one who went near the kitchen. She was so insistant she hadnt touched them but none of us would believe her.

However the culprit soon came to light as I put the plate of eclairs on the coffee table in the living room. We were all chatting away when out of the corner of my eye I saw my golden (sadly no longer with us) gently and very delicately take an eclair off the plate and swallow it whole!

I feed morning and evening, dry in the morning and wet at night.

Early morning and early evening then a bedtime snack.
Stopping the rough play after meals can be difficult with my two. I often end up having to seperate them for an hour or so.

> I think Harley the GR actually teleports his food :-)

((((ROFL!!)))
Think he's been blabbing to my two then!!
    :-D

My two breathe in their food, blink and you miss it (perhaps they teleport with Harley).  Dread to think how quick it would disappear if I didn't feed raw - lol.  I feed them a big breakfast ie raw meaty bones and then they have their 'tea time' which is usually offal, muscle meat or such like.  It suits them well and their condition and weight maintenance is very good on it. 

I have to feed raw my american Bulldog will eat a days worth of dry food in 9 seconds no joke.

When I just had the one dog I used to leave the food down all day and I never had a problem with her eating too much. Now I have 3 dogs I feed them twice a day and now find that the one who used to have food down all the time is a pig and bolts her food down like a hoover and its very hard to keep the weight off her now.

May i kindly ask what you feed your dogs on? ayaour reply much appreciated.

I feed mine twice a day, arden grange and nature diet, sometimes tripe.
My two also eat like they've never been fed before :) it's the big stringy drool, it's like a tap eeeewww :)

I feed mine a raw diet twice daily and never have to remove any leftovers!

Funny how they vary :-)

My pups eat so fast their little back feet come off the ground :-)

I used to have a lab,she ate like no other lab that me or my family have ever experienced.(We had labs all my chlidhood and my father breeds them so i know about the lab appetite).She made herself sick while she ate.I think she was starved in a previous lifetime and was making up for it in this one.She escaped once and was found in the local pub on the prep table,eating the beef and lamb for the pub sunday roasts,very embarrasing and expensive for me! The stories of Rosies gluttony are too many to mention,but strangely she never pinched food at home.My daughter once left a bit of uneaten toast on the edge of the table,she was left alone for the afternoon and When we returned,Rosy was sitting fixated looking at the toast with a pool of saliva on the floor.She passed away last summer,very weak and unable to walk but her love of food hadn't diminished.