I have had a few questions come in recently about how to stop dogs from eating their dinner too fast only to vomit it up a few minutes later. Instead of answering each question individually, I decided to just cover them all with a quick product review.

Gobbling food is a really common problem with puppies and young dogs as the dynamics within the litter are too eat as fast and as much as you can before your littermates eat it all up on you. Puppies come into homes where there is no longer a power struggle for dinner and outgrow the tendency to gobble their dinner. However, some don’t.

There are times I like to spend the time to retrain my dog but in this case, I don’t mind the quick fix and the Brake Fast Bowl is the quickest of all fixes. Like the blurb says, the bowl looks like the latest edition to your kid’s Lego collection with three big knobs in the center. However, those knobs work to slow down your dog’s gobbling by basically being in his way. They work great and with time, your dog will slow down even in a regular bowl as they learn that there is no competition for the food.

I have heard of people making their own cheap rendition of the Brake Fast Bowls by adding a big rock in the center of the dish. This would work too but I have some concerns about the food getting trapped underneath the rock. I don’t know about you, but I can see my dog either picking up the rock and dropping it on the floor or getting her tongue stuck underneath it as she tries to sweep the food out of its hiding spot. I like the idea of the knobs being a part of the dish – no rocks on my floor, no rattling around as the dog moves it about, and no weird tongue injuries that are hard to explain to your vet!