Talk:Terrier/@comment-67.189.108.79-20100518065407

You do NOT have to feed your dog immediately at the 24 hour mark when the time expires. I made the mistake of being up late one night on the weekend when I bought mine. The 24 hours is up on my dog at 1am, however I have to be in bed long before that for work. I wake up around 6-7am and am able to feed him then so YES the dog will wait a few hours.

It would be impossible otherwise because you can't feed him early so if he ran away exactly at the 24 hour expiration mark, as people have tried to say you have to do, then you'd have no opportunity to feed him. You can't feed early but he disappears at that exact time? Maybe a 60 second window? Yeah, that would be incredibly stupid and unfair.

So yeah, try to buy your dog at a time you'll be home to feed it because that becomes it's feeding time but don't worry if you are a few hours late. I think the latest I got to him was 5 or 6 hours after time expired and eh was still there. Just try to get to him as soon as possible.