I came home from my night shift to find my girl sprawled out in the dining room up to the wall behind the table and I thought it seemed strange for her to choose the hard floor over her bed so I called her and she got up and stretched and trotted towards me so I gave her a quick cuddle because my mum had gone to work at about 5:30 and I didn't get in whilst 7:50 so she will have been lonely. . .anyway after finding it strange where she was laying. . . she felt really big compared to what she normally feels (she's a little yorkie and she's normally quite small unless she's gained a tiny bit from getting too many nice things like meat and treats but she always loses it again just from eating normally. . . but yeah so she felt a bit big and I picked her up and she made a noise like she was being squeezed but she's walking fine and it doesn't seem to be bothering her too much. . . her tummy feels quite hard but I remember this happening in the past when she has eaten too much and there was half a bowl of her dry biscuits left and she has had a small container of dog food (one of those where you peel off the lid) . . .I filled her dry food up last night so I know she's eaten a lot of that and she's eaten the whole thing of dog meat so she's unbelievably full. . .why doesn't she know when to stop??? she doesn't over-eat her biscuits. .that's why they're available all of the time because she's so little she eats a few biscuits every hour or so. . . but I think she had eaten some biscuits for her breakfast and then my mum had given her the meat and she will have wolfed that down. . .I'm going to tell my mum to give her just half of one in future and then she can have the rest later to prevent this from happening again!

I know she has done this before a few times so she is just full and it's not affecting her breathing or anything but obviously if her tummy doesn't go down and I think for a second it could be something else I will be calling the vet but does anyone else's dog ever do this? she would eat until she was sick if she could!

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it's started to go down now no where near as hard as it was when I came home bless herrrr she looks like she's laying a bit more comfortably

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Dogs should recieve 3% of their body weight per day. Do not leave food down for her, but feed her twice a day at regular times. I'd get organsied with mum, leave a note if either on of you have fed her. She'll end up obese and that will cause you mor eproblems health wise. I have a friend whose dog has just been diagnosed diabetic. It has been obese all it's life and had hardly any exercise.

I would also keep an eye on her because the time difference between your posts was only 12 minutes and I would not have thought that her stomach would have gone down so much as to be noticeable in that space of time - not if I was reading your post correctly. Overfeeding is not only unhealthy but can be dangerous.

Sorry i posted the post a long time after i felt her tummy the first time. I then felt her again to check and found it had gone down so posted again sorry i didn't make that clear and she's 14 and has always had a small amount of dried biscuits available at all times. She's never been overweight and neither was my boy when he was alive it was actually the vets advice because when he was 4 and she was 2 we found they would push each other out of the way and eat all the food from their own and the other's bowl but refused to eat in separate rooms. The vet said that as they were small dogs leaving the dry food out would make them see food differently and not wolf it down when they were given wet food and it really did work they stopped being greedy over the food and ate sensibly they always had 2 meals or 3 smaller meals a day and they would eat just a few biscuits in between. There obsession with food had gone. Buuuuuuut he died of old age last year and she hasn't changed her attitude to the biscuits. There are still lots left by the time i come to put fresh down but she seems to be obsessed with the wet food again. Come to think of it She normally has smaller tubs of food than she has had today and my mum always leaves the packaging out so i know she's eaten. So i think the issue is that the tub was bigger so she'll be having much less in future. She's neever over eaten the biscuits in her life they're just there to keep her ticking over if she needs it because she doesn't usually get very much at meal times because she's so small. So my mum just gave her too much. In the past when she has been full it has ben when the cat has knocked her bowl off the utility top she eats on and the dog has eaten if without us realising when she's already had her meal. The cat's bowl is now on a rubber mat by the way sorry for the enormous paragraph but i'm replying on my phone

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