Our dogs all have seperate food dishes. Boo boo goes absolutly bizerk (sp) if Maggie or Autumn even goes close to his diner (his food is in his diner, which is hooked to his dog house). Maggie doesnt like Autumn or Boo boo by her food either, Maggie lets Autumn in her diner and dog house, but wont let her eat her food. Autumn doesnt really care, but if she is eating and one of the other dogs tries to take her food or dish while shes eating she gets after them but if they eat it when shes done, and I'm not watching them, she doesnt really care. All the cats have sort of their own dishes, C.P. has her own dish because she is in the house most of the time. Cassie has her own dish in my grandpa's shop, because that is the only place she goes, and Mittens eats out of the dish we have out side (we have one dish outside in the "Cat Diner" that all the cats can eat out of including a few strayes