thats how i ended up with 8

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I have 13

10 whippets 2 greyhounds and an irish setter. It costs about £24 a week to feed them all.

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Sammy you may be gone but your sprit will always live on in the sunbeams R I P Sammy

William- 6/11/03 - 24/3/10
Midge - 8/2/11 - 10-2-11

i;m about to step on foxhunting-toes, i am sure; thats a shame, but too bad -
some things need to be said out-loud, rather than wince and turn away in disgust.

i do not give a bloody hoot how oh-so-traditional this method of feeding may be -
IMO there are far better, saner + less stressful ways to feed any group of dogs!
fine, they are hunting hounds and they are spozed to hunt as a pack - Whoopee!
U can still HEAR the snarling outbursts as various small fights break out, and i am
dead-sure there have on occasion been MAJOR fights with injuries;
that dude with the dog-whip is not mere local color, hes there to intervene if things go OOC.
so... that begs the Q, IMO - Why put the dogs In That Situation?!

i have a beautiful coffee-table book of color-photos of dogs by a famous photographer;
the end-plate photos are a mass of Foxhounds, with keltoid scars clearly visible on EVERY dog;
i cannot pick out One Dog who does not have a divot, rip, old puncture, torn ear, sliced lip, split nose, etc.
it is not the FOX who leaves those scars - they are injuries
from other dogs, inflicted over the mass-meal, in 99% of cases.
how does fighting over food advance pack-cohesion?!!?

some traditions deserve to die - and the sooner, the better, IMO.

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I actually totally agree, I posted the link tongue in cheek, but have posted smae link in many debates stating that it is dreadful. my favorite film of multiple dogs feeding is made by my friend in the states, please watch it is a pleasure to see such well behaved dogs.

YouTube - Feeding 9 dogs

Mo

My lot are are all fed in their crates in pairs. The greyhounds have seperate dishes and the setter is fed on her own but the whippets share a big bowl between 2 as long as their weight and condition is fine then they are ok .

If one show signs of loosing weight then they are fed seperately. I have to watch Archie when they have raw as he will grumble at Simba but otherwise we have no problems. When they were all fed with seperate bowls and not in crates they would go round and all eat out of 1 bowl then go to eat out of another.

The greyhounds don't like the whippets going round their bowls so it is safer to feed them all in crates.

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Sammy you may be gone but your sprit will always live on in the sunbeams R I P Sammy

William- 6/11/03 - 24/3/10
Midge - 8/2/11 - 10-2-11

Hunting with dogs is banned in this country

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