Snack Divider for Dog Treats
I don’t know about your dog, but ours are pretty spoiled - and they are getting way too many dog treats, too. It’s tough when you have so many dog lovers in the house - everybody wants to give the dogs a treat. I think we are going to have to set up a little baggie system - kind of like a pill box - but for snacks so we can control how many snacks they are getting each day.
When Mom comes over - it’s straight to the kitchen for dog treats - and if we don’t have a FULL SUPPLY - Mom lets us hear about it.
Even when our friends stop by, they head straight to the dog treat box to get them a “snackie”. Then there’s our 4 year old who thinks he should give them snacks every day when he comes home from pre-school, and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the 14 month old who thinks its cool to test gravity with food from his high chair and watch the dogs come running.
OOOH Boy, it’s no wonder they’re overweight.
I think I have a plan that will work though. Picture attached. We did have a snack jar on the counter - nearly free feed with all the hands that go in there each day.
So here’s my plan. I have taken some chinese leftover soup containers - the small ones - and each morning we are going to put the maximum number of snacks each dog can have a day. And each dog will have his own container - see the pics below. So when the snack container is empty - no more snacks for the day.
The snack jar is always empty - no matter how much we buy - but I think the new way will help.
We marked individual containers with each of the dogs names - so we can limit the snacks.
In the morning we put 3-4 snacks in there, and when they’re gone - that’s if for the day.
Here’s a stacked view - it takes up the same amount of space -
and we put their initials on the side so we can see that too.
If you have other ideas - please feel free to reply.