I have so much food id like him to eat but alas it takes forever for a pets hunger to grow.. is there a way to speed it up? :)

Currently the only sure-fire way I know of is, if you have a pet that isn't your gourmand and is tier 6, then you can take that pet into battle and use the in battle. It has a chance of making all of your other pets not in the battle hungry(1/10 for hunger), unhappy(1/10 for happiness), or to go down to 0hp. You should get a message about something strange happening to your pets or something of the like during a battle in the log.

Usually what I do is take my other battle pet and fight the Aboxalypse. Usually 1 round with them is enough to make my other pets hungry, but it does vary and is random with which of the 3 effects will happen.

Oh my, well No tier six for me haha i guess ill have to wait and do it the ol fashioned way!