Do you feed your dogs/pets from the table?

[teenster3]

My dogs are so spoiled!
I think my dad started this BAD HABIT of feeding them from the table. What made me think of it is "Thanksgiving".....perfect day to be feeding them from the table, without me yelling at my dad to stop feeding them!
Well, I try not to yell but to simply say; "Dad, that's REALLY a bad habit that you're teaching them!" What can I do?! I guess I've done it in the past as well.....shame on me & now I can't get them to stop begging, especially when we have guests over......agh, which doesn't happen often!
Oh Well! Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving anyways!!!!!
TiNa

[binka_nugget]

I don't eat at table so technically.. no LOL. But sometimes I do give them something while I eat. Although.. they never get it for "free".

[Aspen and Misty]

Our house is layed out so that the carpeted livingroom touches the lanolium kitchen. The dog's are not aloud in the kitchen while we eat, however they may sit at the edge of the kitchen and stare

No, we do not feed our dog's from the table, expessially since there little noises can place themselves on the table. We all know they would just take it off the table if I fed them from it.

Ashley

[jenluckenbach]

I try to resist, but sometimes the cats are just WAY too cute when they beg and I give in.

[Cinder & Smoke]

An "oldie" Dawg Tail...

We had Lady, a fluffy lil Pom/Mix Rescue, while I was in HS.

The Folks were hosting a Dinner Party for friends...
Mom was slaving in the kitchen with a BIG, fancy, roast or ham...

Lady was helping Mom - CONSTANTLY underfoot and *sniffing*
at the oven every time Mom opened it to tend the meat...
They "agreed" that Lady could STAY on her rug beside
the breakfast table...

Meat "done" - it was placed on the platter - ON the breakfast table -
to "rest" a few moments...

Mom, busy with side dishes, salads, and rolls -
was NOT *watching* her 4-legged Assistant -

Who hopped up on a breakfast table chair,
then hopped up ON the breakfast table...
and began to "sample" the Main Course!

Everyone else was in the living room - when we heard the
familiar "*STOMP*" of Mom's foot on the floor followed by
by a rather loud "OH, LADY!!" ( )

Lady proceded to Beat Feet upstairs to seek refuge under my bed;
while Dad went to the kitchen to "calm" Mom...

It was decided to "surgicaly remove" the sampled area
and re-brown the meat a few more minutes to "hide the evidence".

Dad was instruced to "carve" from the Other End -
and NO ONE needed to know anything more!

I still don't know if Mom ever admitted to their friends what
had happened - But she was ready to KILL Dad -
His "banter" throughout dinner was along the lines of...
This roast sure SHRUNK...
I'm SURE it was bigger when it went IN the oven...
Looks like someone carved a hunk off here...
And there's a few potatoes missing...
And to Lady, (laying in HER spot beside the phone table)
- do YOU know anything??"

Mom kept trying to Change The Subject.
Sis and I kept *giggling*.
The Guests kept saying How Good dinner was!
And Lady didn't eat much of her Krunchies that night.


/s/ Phred
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Above stolen from an Old Jazzcat / Ripley (Kat) Cake Tail at >>>
A Jazzcat / Ripley Tail...

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

No, no begging here!! Once you start giving in, you're lost

[teenster3]

CINDER & SMOKE........

"Loved your story"
That actually reminded me of the time my yorkie at the time (now my parents dog), Tango was in the living room with me, when I left my "full" plate of porkchops, potatoes, green beans, & roll sitting on the end table to go get something in the kitchen. Well....it was 10 seconds too late.....he stole my dinner that night! Boy, was I mad at him. I didn't eat all day & there he stood looking at me like:"oh, were you going to eat that?"
Oh well, I couldn't stay mad at him for too long!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

I used to but I have stopped now I hate it when the dogs are sitting there mooching and drooling while I'm eating so now they have to lay in their corner on their blanket's until we're finished I don't know why Tango and Tia mooch, they barely like any people food usually anyway!

[hamsterman]

no i can feed my cat,bird,hamster or guinea pig from the table

[GraciesMommy]

I give Gracie little pieces of certain foods...she loves cheese doritos...tonight I was eating mini cheese nips and she had a couple..I dont feed her from my plate tho, only pieces of snack..When I had Mercedes for 16 years she never got to eat people food and now that she is gone I feel like I deprived her and decided I wouldn't do that to Gracie.

[cookieluver7]

Nope!

[Chilli]

My parents got my dogs into that habit, too.
They also taught Frisk-man to whine for his food, so no matter where you are in the house, you can't escape the dogs if they can smell any food on you. lol.
Luckily we did get to escape them on Thanksgiving.

Here is a common sight you see around here:

Frisk-man trying to get food off the table.

[pitc9]

yep

[luggage]

Cleo has no interest in people food but Akira is interested enough for the both of them.

When I first brought her home she was only a month old, once she discovered my food she was like a monster.

I had my plate in my lap while watching TV, I gave her the first piece and she went nuts after eating it she climbed up my leg and dived into my plate. I picked her up by the scruff of her neck to remove her.

She was back up in the middle of my plate before I could sit up straight and I repeated this several times. She was quite nasty fighting and growling the whole way.

She eventually got the message but she continues to get in as close as she can before I shoo her away.

She's 3 years old now

I've tried to get her to take food from my hand gently but she really goes for it and I often get bitten and scratched in the process.

Maybe someone has some ideas as to how I can get her to take the food more calmly.

I pull it back if she's going for it to aggressively but that makes her hiss and I'm not always fast enough

I'm not sure but could this have anything to do with her coming from a feral family, many of her siblings are also aggressive.

[cocker_luva]

no