Hi, I’m Dr. Maja! Read my introduction to study extra about me and my three canine, Lava, Hela, and Lajka.
Having three canine, who’ve not identified one another since a younger age, means being a bit extra cautious and insightful round feeding occasions. Luckily, they’re fairly good in terms of respecting one another’s privateness whereas consuming, and there’s a longtime hierarchy primarily based on their love for meals. There can also be a distinct strategy primarily based on whether or not they’re being fed inside or exterior.
Lava Is Always Special
Lava has an odd character. Don’t get me incorrect, she loves meals, however normally and principally when that meals is on my plate. She’d kill for a chew of desk scraps, regardless of me by no means giving her something. As quickly as I’m making one thing or on the point of eat, there she is, someplace shut by, however not too shut, so I wouldn’t understand she is there. As if I might miss a 77-lb canine subsequent to my toes.
When it involves her meals, Lava usually wants persuading to eat. She’s been a choosy eater since she was a pet. This has considerably improved since she gained two sisters she by no means requested for, who at the moment are at all times impatient to scrub up her meals bowl after she’s executed consuming. Lava can also be a gradual eater, and requires her personal privateness when she eats. Despite nobody actually attempting to steal her meals, there can be a low growl even when there’s only a cat a number of toes away cleansing themselves, ignoring Lava’s dinner. That’s why, when inside, Lava eats within the downstairs bathroom, as the lounge and kitchen are one room. This offers her privateness, and nobody can disturb her. And when consuming exterior, I have to supervise the opposite two in order that they don’t annoy Lava, who finishes final, cherishing each chew, as if to spite the opposite two who completed their meals extra rapidly.
Hela Is a Foodie
Hela, because of her history of near-starvation in Greece, is an enormous foodie. This will be her dry meals, moist canned meals, treats, or human meals, and she or he may even resort to consuming bugs and small rodents she finds and catches exterior. It’s fascinating to see that even after virtually 2 years of getting a constant routine in terms of mealtimes, she nonetheless tries to seek out issues to eat exterior. There have been many occasions once I needed to try to take away one thing smelly and rotten from her mouth, which she’s not so tolerant of.
And Hela is like clockwork. If I sleep in or come house late, she would be the one to obviously present me it’s effectively previous breakfast or time for dinner, by sitting proper subsequent to me, wagging her tail intensely, and having this persistent stare. She might even stroll over to the place the meals is or casually examine the cats’ meals bowls. Hela eats first once they’re being fed inside and final when exterior. This solely means her meals bowl reaches her round 20 seconds later than the primary canine, however to her, it should appear to be an eternity. She is a quick eater, and at occasions, I use a slow feeder to slow her down a bit. After she finishes, she’s going to clear the opposite canine’ bowls till they’re spotless.
Lajka Is Not a Morning “Person”
And the most recent addition, effectively, as you may have guessed, additionally loves meals. Not understanding her historical past, it’s troublesome to even guess the way in which she lived, however primarily based on her equally gross habits to Hela’s of consuming all kinds, it’s clear she hadn’t been fed too repeatedly. She loves every little thing I give her and can by no means depart something behind, not like Lava, however within the morning, she won’t be super insistent on asking for food. She will eat her breakfast, however slowly. When fed inside, she eats in her crate and can rush inside, understanding meals is coming. Outside, she is the primary to get fed, as she follows me round so intently that it solely is sensible that she eats first.
She additionally respects Hela and Lava and can solely strategy each once they’re executed consuming, within the hope that one thing received missed in or across the meals bowl. It’s good to see how the mealtimes are fairly calm and appear to circulation, and to exterior observers, it should seem like a well-rehearsed play. Of course, it took us loads of time to seek out what works greatest.
