Energy surges after eating and avoiding bloat

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Energy surges after eating and avoiding bloat

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Does any one else suffer mad energy surges after their Schnauz has been fed? Heidi has always been a pain after eating trying to bully everyone and anyone to play with her, rolling all over the floor and throwing toys about. It is even worse when she has really enjoyed her dinner we are now into 1hr 20 mins of her euphoric state as she has had roast chicken dinner tonight!! (question) It has nearly driven us mad as the last thing you want to do is energetic play in case of bloat, please say it's not just our nutty dog that does this! (giggle)
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how funny - lola has had chicken today too, and we call it 'i feel good lalalala' when she spends all her time rolling and rooing oh and here she goes, she has just charged past me and back again, having a mad spurt of the zoomies! shes now grabbed her favourite toy and is trying to type with it on my laptop...get off mum thats what shes saying!!!!
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LOL Nicky aren't they funny? I don't recall any of our previous dogs being like this! :o)
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lol must be a standard thing, mine are all sleeping off their dinner!
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Grrrr....I had a feeling someone would say that! LOL
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yep sleeping like a baby
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In our house dinners have always been followed by grazy play sessions.
Archie used to go ballistic, spin like a nutter and knock Lizzie over regularly.
Seems to be the same with Enzo and Luigi which means I now have a complete mayhem after din dins [doggy]
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Daisy does sometimes, but last time she got mad zoomies after eating she was sick, so we've put a top to that.

Zoomies after getting wet is her thing :D
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My two have theirs before - they seem to go nuts when its coming up to dinner time, then charlie tries to wipe his beard over anything and everything when he's eaten
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Blue goes demented before her tea. She is much more chilled once she has eaten it.
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My boy has the mad moments as well after eating, but I do not encourage it. I give a difficult kong or something to settle him down after eating, and I try to ignore his madness. Sometimes I have to tell him to "settle down or else..."
The reason is the worry of bloat in large dogs. If that wouldn't be a worry, I would utilise these moments and incorperate training to the high energy moments (nerd)
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Yes, our two are the same as Heidi, there is always 10 minutes or so of madness after their meal before the calm down, starts off with a gentle play fight which leads to a boxing match until I step in - boring old me (giggle)
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alfie does the same goes mad running all over jumping up etc i do my best to stop him because we lost a giant a while back due to bloat and i blame myself ever since
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Whats bloat? Ive not heard of it before - is it something I should be watching for?
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Have to say Obi doesn't get excited before or after. Put a ball in his bowl though and things would be a different matter
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