How greedy is your dog?
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I aquired (well, my wife did) a little dog earlier this year. A grey Lhasa Apso for the record. The thing is, he's a greedy wee bastard. Its unbelievable how often he's on the scrounge.
Now I had a Doberman when I was a kid and sure, he liked his grub. In fact he used to literally drool watching me eat. That was it though. The problem with the ankle biter is EVERY time I go into the kitchen he follows me. I can't make a cup of tea without him under my feet and it's doing my head in. I'm almost always tripping over him as he hangs around sniffing for snacks. It certainly isn't affection, he won't follow me to the garden or the bedroom. The kitchen however and there he is - guaranteed. If he hears the fridge opening he's there in a shot. I tripped over him the other day as I opened the oven and it was almost melted hands time.
To make matters worse I went to the post office yesterday and came back to find he'd scranned a muffin which was in my work bag. I was looking forward to that muffin. Is this par for the course for dogs? It's not like I give him grub when he follows me but he's yet to take the hint. He'll be getting dumped 60 miles from home if he keeps this up.
Anyone else have a greedy canine?
Now I had a Doberman when I was a kid and sure, he liked his grub. In fact he used to literally drool watching me eat. That was it though. The problem with the ankle biter is EVERY time I go into the kitchen he follows me. I can't make a cup of tea without him under my feet and it's doing my head in. I'm almost always tripping over him as he hangs around sniffing for snacks. It certainly isn't affection, he won't follow me to the garden or the bedroom. The kitchen however and there he is - guaranteed. If he hears the fridge opening he's there in a shot. I tripped over him the other day as I opened the oven and it was almost melted hands time.
To make matters worse I went to the post office yesterday and came back to find he'd scranned a muffin which was in my work bag. I was looking forward to that muffin. Is this par for the course for dogs? It's not like I give him grub when he follows me but he's yet to take the hint. He'll be getting dumped 60 miles from home if he keeps this up.
Anyone else have a greedy canine?
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You can leave a cat for a week with a big bowl of food and water (if you really must) and it'll be fine whereas a dog will scoff the lot in one go and then starve.
My dogs are kind of odd.
We had a cat before the first dog and the cat taught the Labrador a lot of habits.
She eats sitting down, like cats do, and only eats when she's hungry.
5 years ago we inherited a Spaniel puppy.
She's greedier than the labrador but she's still learned most of what she does from the lab' and, as a result, she's not particularly greedy either.
One thing; if you're training a dog it IS probably best to teach them to eat at a certain time.
Put the food down at, say, 6pm and if they don't eat it before 7pm remove it again.
They'll soon realise they NEED to eat the food when it's given to them and that, in turn, trains them to need the loo at 11pm.
If you leave a bowl of food for a dog to eat whenever it wants it might decide to scoff it all at 2am and then take a dump on the floor at 6am or summat.
My dogs are kind of odd because they learned to eat from a cat but, in general, you should try to be fairly strict about when a dog eats to help with toilet training.
THIS sounds like a plan!
Although I'm pleased to hear other dog owners have the same problem. I thought maybe our wee pooch was taking the rip but it would indeed seem dogs are innately greedy.
Oh, and I had enough baby gates when I was raising my children thanks! Not going back there again. I'd fall over that more than the dog.
I'll have to try that. I do try and be disciplined but the minute my back's turned my wife and two daughters' are spoiling him I swear. Perhaps I should drop THEM in the middle of nowhere and keep the dog!
Our dog only has one meal a day & he knows what time he has it too. Drives me crazy if my hubby is late feeding him as he bugs me to moan at me hubby:D He does the same when its walking time too, he comes & annoys me so I tell my hubby.
OK, I'll leave.
Well I laughed!
Our choc lab is also obsessed with food and can try and scrounge after she has just eaten her meal.
I never giver her anything off of my plate,and get her to sit a few feet away from me, I hate scrounging dogs.
She hears the fridge open even if she is in the garden.
He is much bigger on the inside than the outside, He is like an extra dustbin, saves us loads of bin space,
we have yet to find something he won't eat, he will eat potatoes, carrots,..ALL veg, he LOVES chips, he even eats them frozen if you drop one, drop a hot one and he bats it around the kitchen growling at it until it's cool enough to eat,
he will eat the cats food, at one time we used to feed them both at the same time, but the cat would eat the dogs food, and the dog would eat the cats!!!
Whats THAT about? they always prefer the others food!
:cool:
The cat on the other hand is food obsessed. He'll rake through bins, he figured out how to open the cupboards so we had to lock them, he started gaining weight and we eventually discovered he'd been raiding the bag of dry dog food (which was kept on a cupboard at least 6 feet off the ground!) Food raid
I can't leave anything edible out or he'll have it. We even had to remove the string off a roast from his throat a couple of years ago. :rolleyes:
That is so true. I had 4 cats whenI got my lab. Now my lab is greedy BUT that's with treats. I have alwys left 2 bowls of cat biscuits out all day and I started that wih my dog who does the same as the cats and only eats his when hungry - though he still drools when he watches me eat:D
An absolute nightmare as we pay the price if we leave any food within his reach. (And we checked and triple chekced with the vets, he is a healthy weight and is being given enough food a day)
She once got her face in the bag of hamster food and had herself a good old feast! We have to crate her while we eat because she sits in front of us dribbling and sniffing around the plate, and if you don't watch her she snatches food and runs off with it...she snatched a slice of pizza out of my hand one night!!
I also once put some bread rolls out on a plate to put burgers on, turned to get a fork out of a drawer, and quick as a flash she'd snatched the top of one and run off with it! Cheeky bugger!
We bought her a buster cube, you can fit a whole meal inside it if they're on dry food, or just some treats. It takes her ages to get the food out so it keeps her busy and stimulates her mind. It also slows down their eating if you find they wolf their food too quickly.
However, I thought the beagle was bad, but the beagle lab x puts him to shame when it comes to being greedy! The lab stories on here certainly ring a bell
Also, she can crap for England.
She enjoys releasing the most foul smells from her ass. If she jumps up on a couch she usually farts, like it was lying around loose and just needed a kick.
Nice.
But I love her.