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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. |
Mine does this too. I hate it, but I don't think there is anything that can be done about it. :confused: |
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It is not an unusual problem. Many dogs prefer not to eat near the bowl. Are the dishes washed regularly? Some dogs have very sensitive noses and will avoid a bowl of any kind that isn't spanking clean. My girl does not like to eat in the kitchen. We have granite stone as our kitchen flooring. She finds it to be too cold for her liking. She has always been sensitive to cold so I let her eat in a carpeted room. I really think that eating away from the dish is some kind of throw back to a dog's ancestors. Some do it and some don't. Letting her eat in seclusion in a comfortable room will probably solve the problem if you don't want her to eat with you. |
Ali recently brought this to a new level. She cries and barks at me because she wants me to take food out of her bowl FOR her. She prefers eating out of my hand. She is going to be a very hungry little dog if she keeps this up, I have my limits. I think. :confused: |
2 Attachment(s) Remy will do this also. There are times that he takes his kibbles and goes to the area rug to eat it. I do have his bowls on a mat but he doesn't care about that. However, he will eat at his bowl when Roxy (cat) is eating at her bowl. It never fails, when she goes to eat then he goes to eat. It is so cute. Roxy tolerates a lot from Remy. He is always in her face and gives her kisses. Here are some pics that I took today of Remy & Roxy eating. One is of Remy trying to get at Roxy's food. I'm always picking up her food bowl when she's not eating because he will try and eat her food too. |
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Maggie does this is well, but her bowls are in the family room where we are when she eats, and where her crate is. Her crate is next to the fireplace, and the bowls are on the hearth (very low and stone, so easy for clean up!) - Maggie likes to take mouthfuls back into her crate. Sometimes mid day I hear crunching and I say, "did you save some of your breakfast?!" lol. I really don't think this is something you can train then NOT to do, I think you just have to sort of adjust ;) I know with Maggie, she's just so darn happy to be eating, I think she can't stay still long enough to eat from the bowl :) |
I put my boys food bowls by the kitchen and I put a rug in front of the walkway and they seem to put the good on the rug instead of the carpet. Try that. |
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