Feed them at separate places. Put the food down for ONLY 15 to 30 minutes. If they don't eat it all, put it up till the next meal. -!-
Mealtime is a moment when you can remind dogs who is in charge. Don't waste it by putting food outside and walking away.
Mealtimes should be 15 minutes, no longer. The adult dog has two meals per day and the puppy has three or four, depending on size and age. Before you put down the food the adult should be on a Sit or Down. I would put down the puppy's food first, after he has sat politely, then put down the adult's food several feet away and release him to eat. By having a short distance between bowls you can block anyone who tries to walk between bowls. If either of them is determined to get past you (work on obedience training) then feed with leashes on so you have a grab-handle.
Most research has found that a combination of dry kibble with a small amount of wet is best. The "wet" may be liquid, like warm water, or canned food.
Bring your dogs inside for their feeding times, which should be regular and only twice a day (breakfast and dinner). Feed them in separate rooms, and put only the recommended amount of food in each bowl. (Half the daily total amount, for each meal.)
Give them 20 minutes to eat, then pick up both bowls, and don't feed again until the next meal.
They will quickly learn that they need to eat what you give them, and that they can't steal from the other dog's bowl.
I know this might sound kinda mean and "militaristic" especially if you're used to free-feeding them all day. But it's really the way dogs should be fed, and will help strengthen your bond between you & your dogs.
Good luck & best wishes!
I have this problem too. I just mix the blue buffalo puppy food and the blue buffalo adult food, half and half in the bowls. My vet said that is fine, but a bunch of these people will probably give me thumbs down for it, because they seem to know everything. ha.
Feed them at different times. Feed one outside, one inside. You can't really keep the dogs from eating each others food, because most of the time, dogs like the other dogs food better,
That happened to my puppy too. Just leave the food out all the time and the puppy will eat it eventually. He has to get hungry sometime.
There is NO need to feed two different dog foods. Buy a good quality dog food that both can eat. I use Canidae For All Life Stages, good for all dogs, from pups to seniors.
How old is the puppy? Older puppies can eat adult dog food.
I would feed them:
a) feed them in their crates,
b%
Thats easy, feed them in their crates!
Feed them the same food.
Better yet, feed them actual food. I have lost all confidence in the commercial dog food industry since the melamine contamination; I've switched my dog to her species' natural diet: raw meat, organs and bones.
I feed raw/prey model; my 50-pound shar-pei mix gets about 12oz a day, but when I have a gorge meal for her, like a turkey carcass that will take her 4-5 hours to eat, she won't be hungry or interested in food for 2-3 days. In general, a dog is fed 2-3% of the ideal body weight each day. A puppy gets 2-3% of the ideal anticipated adult weight each day, divided into 4 meals.
The ideal diet should consist of approximately 80% raw meat, 10% raw edible bone, 5% raw liver, 5% other raw organs, the occasional egg, shell and all, raw.
NO veggies, NO fruit. Dogs cannot digest vegetables or fruits; they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. Look at cows: they have the enzyme, and they still need four stomachs and they have to eat the cellulose twice. Dogs have one stomach and a straight-and-simple digestive tract.
They also don't have flat-topped grinding molars: the dog's back teeth are carnassials, designed to scissor through meat and bone, to break up prey animal carcasses into chunks small enough to swallow.
NO grains; again, dogs can't digest cellulose, and the other ingredients are the primary cause of allergies and diabetes in dogs.
NO dairy; dogs are lactose intolerant: another digestive enzyme they don't have.
NO supplements other than a spoonful of deepsea fish body oil for the Omega-3 that corn-finished meat does not contain.
Chewing up raw meat takes work, as does chomping through the incidental bones. The exercise involved in handling Big Complicated Food (several days' worth), and in breaking up bones into swallowable chunks, keeps dogs teeth clean and satisfies a part of their brain that nothing else touches. These dogs are less hyper, friendlier... and a bit more inclined to protect their food: after all, this food is worth protecting!
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