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Tibbe used to bring his food piece by piece within my eyesight to eat it. Most social dogs want to eat with their people as a sort of confirmation of their pack dynamics and seem to want us to be somewhat a par of the eating ritual. I purposefully put Tibbe's food bowl or food-filled kong toys down within my eyesight so I can enjoy watching him eat and he seems to love that I do, rarely walks away from the area of his bowl now.

Or you can feed your dog in a series of kong toys and allow him to roll them around until food pops out or lick the wet food out if he's eating dry food.

If you want, you could feed him in his cage within your eyesight so he gets the benefit of your "participation" in his eating ritual, if you make his going into the cage a happy thing, smiling, clapping your hands and making it seem like he just scored a lottery win to get to go in his cage to eat his meal. After he's done, let him right back out with lots of praise and happiness so he always associates going in there with good times.