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New bad habit. Any Advice? Mellie started doing this last week & now Mac is doing it also. They will get a mouthful of food from their bowls in the kitchen, then proceed to walk into the living room and drop it out on my new rug and then eat it there. I am one of those people who don't allow food anywhere except the kitchen so even dry kibble drives me nuts. They are also doing this with the wet food treat. I have yelled at them. They just give me the what, who me look and carry on. I put up the baby gate then they decided they would wait to eat plus my resident clutz (aka me) keeps falling over the gate. Any suggestions on why the decided to eat this way or how to stop it. |
I don't think this is unusual. Loki does this. My friend's dogs do this. I wish I could tell you why! Loki also prefers to eat his food off of the floor rather than out of a bowl. He's a goof. Anyway, do they have crates? Loki will ignore his food if I set it on the floor, but if I put him in his crate with his food bowl he will usually eat. If he ignores it while in his crate I just decide he isn't hungry and try again later. At least the mess is confined! |
My pups do the same thing - not so much with treats but when they're eating they will carry the food into the family room and eat it there :confused: I would just suggest trying to praise them when they stay in the kitchen. Sit in the living room when he/she is eating and if they try to come into the living room/carpeted area, just turn them around and put them back at their bowl. Good luck! |
Sorry I have no idea why but my mom's yorkie rocky does the same thing. He also pulls the food out of his bowl in the kitchen and picks only the colorful pieces that are softer for him to eat. The brown pieces just sit there till someone cleans it up, or his gets really hungry. - My Lucy has started getting a piece and bringing it in the living room to eat but she only gets one piece at a time. I'm sure she will be bring mouths full soon |
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Both of mine do this and they always have,It must be another one of those yorkie things lol.Lady will go back and forth from the bowl to her rug until shes full and although Jess does it less,she still likes to carry food around the house and eat it somewhere different. They do it with treats too. |
My poodle did that and it drove me nuts. Tatum never started it as a puppy and I was really glad. Now, I've noticed that she does it every once in a while - carries each mouthful to an area rug in the breakfast room. At first when I just had regular ceramic dog bowls, she would insist on pawing at the bowl until it tipped and spilled the food out - then she would eat it. She got really mad when I bought new bowls that are ceramic non-tip ones. Got her on that one! But the funniest thing with her is that if I'm sitting on the couch (usually working on my cross stitch), she'll go eat and then jump up on the back of the couch and come over and burp and start kissing me tons and tons. Kinda gross! |
Tino does it too but brown wet food on a cream carpet doesnt go! :mad: |
Maddie doesn't do that...just once in a while, but my sister's yorkie whom I used to babysit often, always took a piece of food and then went and sat in the livingroom to eat it. Who knows why they do it...they are so funny! |
Sorry no help here, Princess is the same way. Maybe someone will have the answer. :) |
OK what if you bought a cheap little rug and put their food bowls on the rug? They would still do it, but maybe they would make a mess on their own rug? |
Did you say New carpet,well thats the one and only reason,why would they do it on old dirty carpet,you know how smart they are,lol, when I had new oak flooring put in,they did it for the frist 2 weeks,now they aim at the new persian rug,when I get new through rugs,they will eat there,so the way I see it,this top will change |
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Stewie does this when I'm not in the room w/ him while he's eating. He wants me to watch him eat. Maybe it's because he's afraid of choking. |
Sully does this too.....just not all the way across the room. Maybe a half of a foot to a foot away from his bowl. Weird, I know? I am like, dude, what's a matter with your bowl, eh? |
Rocky & Daisy do the same thing. I free feed them in the laundry room but they are baby gated up. When I let them out I put up the food so they don't transport. ;-) |
Muffin started to do this with the bigger Wellness kibble. It's almost as if she needs to take it somewhere else, drop it and work it into smaller pieces. When she was on the Royal Canin and Chicken Soup she never did that. So now I pinch the pieces of kibble to make them a bit smaller and she doesn't do it anymore. :rolleyes: |
Whew! I am glad that I am not alone!!! |
My girls do this as well....they are so spoiled that they won't even eat out of a bowl, we have to put the food on a plate in the living room and then they take a couple of pieces and go find a place where they want to eat them and then it is back to the plate for more!!! I think it is just a yorkie thing, because my brother's dog will eat at their bowls until it is completely gone!!! |
If I am home, Edie always brings the food into a room where my husband is or where I am. Usually, the living room. I think it is because she wants the company while she is eating! My Edith is a social butterfly. Fortunately, she eats dry kibble. Unfortunately, she eats it on my hand knotted Persian carpet. I can live with that, though. |
Mine both do that. Not all the time but usually! I also have an older Sheltie that won't eat out of a bowl. He has to tip the bowl and eat off of the floor. :rolleyes: Thankfully I have all hardwood or tile floors... |
I think they don't want to eat alone. Polly and Rudy don't do it, but Maddie does. She bring food to the room I am in. She brings a mouth full and then they all eat it, it is so funny. She is so sweet she lets them eat it too. |
My girls both do this too and it just absolutely drives me crazy!!!! Its like they wont eat their food out of their bowl they just have to carry it off a few feet and then they will eat it and then they go back to their bowl and carry it off to eat again. I dont understand it but maybe its just a yorkie thing. Who knows!! |
Mine all do this too. I have their food pn a rug for this purpose and their are rugs in the kitcen for them to eat on. You might try putting a rug under or near the food dish that you don't mind them eating on. Mine will also sometimes take the kibble back to their beds to eat it. :p Silly Yorkies!!! |
Both Simon and Hallie do that all the time! Hallie will only eat if I'm watching her so if she gets hungry in the morning and there is leftover dinner in their bowls she will go get a mouthful and bring it to me in bed, sometimes she drops it on my face and proceeds to crunch away! Simon usually takes his under the table and eats it. I agree with the idea to get them a cheap little rug to put under their bowls or just put the baby gate up when they are eating! |
Suggestion #1: Buy Mellie and Mac a nice "rug" and place it on the opposite side of the kitchen from their bowl. Maybe you can trick them. Suggestion #2: Adapt and learn to deal with Yorkie Kibble on your new carpet. I would think that you might have more success with Suggestion #2. |
No, its not a Yorkie thing, my maltese does the same thing. We don't eat in the living room either. Only my furbabes are allowed to. ;) Now this was hard explaining to my grandchildren.. lol |
Simonandhallie "Hallie will only eat if I'm watching her so if she gets hungry in the morning and there is leftover dinner in their bowls she will go get a mouthful and bring it to me in bed, sometimes she drops it on my face and proceeds to crunch away!" This just makes me laugh...Baby doesn't do this with food, but a rawhide or a chew toy..it's all over my face! And about the food, Baby likes hers better off of the floor too....and I feed her in the living room, so not sure if she would like it moved....she seems happy with it there. |
My (many different dogs) have all done this. Don't let it bother you. If you have a dog - you have to accept some of their little traits. Can't imagine dry dog food being carried to another area would bother you. Mine do this all the time. Don't ask me why!!! Carol Jean |
Mine all do the same with dry..one piece or a mouth full..go to living room to eat it. ..one hoards her in her bed. Thank goodness they don't do it with the wet food. You just learn to clean and sweep more..lol |
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