Thanks for your input! Glad to hear I'm not the only one

bentley definitely runs the show. I'll try being more rigid with a routine and picking up his food -- that may work best because now if he's hungry at noon and we skipped breakfast cause he already had food left from dinner he whines and scrapes his bowl with his paw until I feed him. Ha guess I need to stop
Letting him run the show so much too!! It's definitely been a trip to have him in our lives