Food Coma

Food coma is a common term to describe what happens when you eat too much. After gorging yourself on a lot of food (think during Thanksgiving) all you can do is plop down onto a couch and fall promptly asleep. Puppies also experience food coma.

Over the weekend we started to feed Coco more food since the vet said she wasn't eating enough. When we got her we thought she was a bit "chunky" at 2lbs 13 ounces. On Saturday we went to the vet and she weighed 2lbs 11 ounces -- she had lost 2 ounces in a matter of 2 weeks. After that we decided to give her more food.

Her first meal after coming back from the vet's office was lunch. I gave her a 1/3 of a can of dog food mixed with some dry kibble (more than her normal ration of it.) As always, Coco had a healthy appetite and devoured the food. After eating, however. she was so full that she didn't know what to do with herself. She was too full to want to run around like she normally does. We decided that she didn't look like she wanted to be out and roaming around freely in the house so we put her in her pen. Upon putting her in her pen, she promptly fell asleep.

Coco had eaten so much that all she could do was sleep. She decided that sleep was the best way to deal with food coma.

Coco's lesson: don't eat so much food. Leave some for later
My lesson: don't give Coco too much food else I won't have a puppy to play with for a few hours