Will your rottie greet you if he/she is eating?

[Sasha's Mom]

Sasha will greet me regardless, be it eating, sleeping, playing....whatever... she does her happy dance when I come. when hubby comes home, she doesn't really care....if she's napping in her crate, she doesn't even come out till I come home... hubby is a little hurt, though...I think they need to work on their bonding!

[FenrisUlfr]

Fenris will always come investigate to see who's at the door if someone comes in while he's eating, and whether he sticks around after he says hi depends on who it is and how hungry he was. But I do think that having two dogs might well make a difference there. He knows we're not going to take his food. If it's something that he thinks the cats will want, he carries it in his mouth as he comes to look at the door, but probably won't actually put it down to say hi.

[frontierrots]

NONE of my dogs would leave food to great a person. And why on earth would I expect them too? It takes under 5 minutes for the dogs to eat for gosh sake leave them alone.

[Alura]

Well...I saw your post yesterday but didn't reply because I wasn't sure. Then I get home and hubby had just given our Victoria a bone. I come in and she looks at me but goes rigth back to her bone. I call her, and she strats to walk towards me but then stops half way and glances back at her bone, looks at me, and goes back to the bone. I guess I have my answer now!

[alice's mommy]

Arthur will come straight to me, touch me with his tongue/nose and then RUN back to his food. It's like, "There! I've done my duty" and off he goes. :)

[Janus'sMom]

Last dog I had would greet me like I've been gone for months, even if I was gone to check the mail and was back in 3 minutes. Anyone else she's look at and then go back to her food, but if it was someone she didn't know, she'd stay with me and wait till they left and then go back to her food. And every time after she ate, she'd get her drink of water and then come find me and slobber all over me, kind of like her way of saying "thank you, it was good, but a lil dry, so i had some extra water, and now i'm sharing it with you" lol.

Now Janus on the other hand, eats his food in less than 5 minutes and then comes running to me to give me kisses and thanks, then runs back to drink his water. He won't go to anyone else and give his thanks, even when I had my boyfriend feed him, Janus still came to me to say thank you. It kind of upset the boyfriend and he said he wouldn't feed Janus again cause he didnt get a thank you. lol. I swear, some people are just weird.

[jlhnokc]

Originally Posted by frontierrots

NONE of my dogs would leave food to great a person. And why on earth would I expect them too? It takes under 5 minutes for the dogs to eat for gosh sake leave them alone.

I don't think anyone was talking about actually calling their dogs away from their food dish, just asking if when you come home and your dogs are eating, do they continue to eat, or do they come see you...

[alessadry]

Originally Posted by Alura

Well...I saw your post yesterday but didn't reply because I wasn't sure. Then I get home and hubby had just given our Victoria a bone. I come in and she looks at me but goes rigth back to her bone. I call her, and she strats to walk towards me but then stops half way and glances back at her bone, looks at me, and goes back to the bone. I guess I have my answer now!

Lol, my pups do that too. If they have a bone and I call them it feels as if the the bone has a sort of magnet effect of them that keeps them from moving! They may do two steps and go back, look at us and then look back at the bone. LOL!

[Cdn1050]

Originally Posted by jlhnokc

I don't think anyone was talking about actually calling their dogs away from their food dish, just asking if when you come home and your dogs are eating, do they continue to eat, or do they come see you...

I interpreted the post the same as Jlhnokc. I just have a typically nosey busy body, who thinks she if she's not involved in every activity or hears a strange noise and doesn't investigate that she is missing out on something. There are some threads that you really need to analyze in depth to ensure that the owner of a particular dog is not misinterpreting certain behaviours considered dominant behaviours, but I don't think this is one of those threads. I don't think and I hope no one is thinking of disturbing their dog while they eat. If the dog leaves the bowl of food and greets you is another story.

[SABELLESMOM]

Well, they're pups! If they're being fed 3x a day, then I think they must be "quite" young yet. Food is, unfortunately, a number 1 enticement for a young dog, expecially. Hubby is expecting more than most dogs can give as adults.

To make things worse he called them but to no avail.

Mine? Oh they'll greet me alright... by way of a simple acknowlegement! They'll look up from the bowl, as they chew, and wag their nubs. But leave their bowl? With food still in it? Until it is eaten, their food would be up for grabs if left unattended.

If I called one? Maybe, if I was standing between the bowls. I might even get one to leave momentarily for a pat on the head. I wouldn't do it to them. It's unfair.

I actually know they'd come, if I were very close. I still believe it was just luck! Both went after a tantalizing bit of spoiled food I dropped when cleaning the fridge. Both came. (it was only a few steps, further away...no guarantee!) One hadn't picked up anything. The other gave it to me. Both got leftover unspoiled steak!

[Janus'sMom]

Originally Posted by Cdn1050

I interpreted the post the same as Jlhnokc. I just have a typically nosey busy body, who thinks she if she's not involved in every activity or hears a strange noise and doesn't investigate that she is missing out on something. There are some threads that you really need to analyze in depth to ensure that the owner of a particular dog is not misinterpreting certain behaviours considered dominant behaviours, but I don't think this is one of those threads. I don't think and I hope no one is thinking of disturbing their dog while they eat. If the dog leaves the bowl of food and greets you is another story.

I interupt Janus while he's eating for only one reason. And I don't know if its even interupting him, but I'll pet him and put my hand in his bowl to show that I'm not going to take it away so he has no reason to start getting food agressive. And as of yesterday I started dropping in a tid bit size treat to show him that a hand in his food dish while he's eating leads to something special to eat. I have a 3yr old child in the house, and god forbid if Janus ever got the idea to get agressive with him if the child ever wandered over to the food dish when he's eating (not that I allow the child to bother him while eating, but the kid is sneaky and anything is possible, and I usually feed Janus when the child is in another room). Just a practice that I use to do with my last dog and she was never food agressive till I stopped doing that with her.

[SABELLESMOM]

Originally Posted by Janus'sMom

As of yesterday I started dropping in a tid bit size treat to show him that a hand in his food dish while he's eating leads to something special to eat. I have a 3yr old child in the house...

I agree. Since they were pups, I've occasionally petted during meals. You raise a good point. You have every right to do this as children, are still children. They forget.

This is a somewhat different topic though. The OP has more than one pup. Leaving the bowl, means their food is at risk from the other pup. That's the part that is unfair. "The grass is always greener" thinking may force them to be at odds with each other. Calling plural dogs away, could concievably create problems.

Now with more than one pup, could the OP or should they pet or put hands in or out of the bowl? They could. I have no problem with keeping children safe. Still, it's a different situation. I tend to leave mine in peace while they eat. There are no children in my home on a regular basis.

Another tangent: I do work with "out" and "drop it" in other areas instead. Toys during play for example: ball tossing, frisbees, bungee snakes, tug ropes. Since mine have dropped old marrow bones into my lap, I began "asking" for and old one here and there. I made it a GAME.

My idea here was to be able to take something away that had potential for harming my dog: a dead squirrel perhaps? Fortunately I have NOT had that pleasure!

[Janus'sMom]

Janus is working really well with "Give" and "Leave it" and "Out of there" (when he's in the laundry room/trash room/cat food room and when he's in the corner where the cockateils are. My main issue now is the kid getting up in the middle of the night and letting Janus out of his cage or putting small toys (lil soldiers) threw the bars and into the cage. So far the cat hasn't tried drinking or eating out of Janus's bowls, so I don't think I'll have a problem of him guarding his bowls from the cat.
Does anyone else have a cat that likes eating and drinking out of the dog food bowls? My last cat and dog use to fight over this issue, but then be best friends for the rest of the time.

[moondog]

Originally Posted by Janus'sMom

My main issue now is the kid getting up in the middle of the night and letting Janus out of his cage or putting small toys (lil soldiers) threw the bars and into the cage.

I would make this a big no-no.....explain to the child that Janus might eat the toy and it would make him VERY sick. I'm sure once understood, your child won't want Janus to have to go to the hospital.

Originally Posted by Janus'sMom

Does anyone else have a cat that likes eating and drinking out of the dog food bowls? My last cat and dog use to fight over this issue, but then be best friends for the rest of the time.

I do....both my cats have helped themselves to the dog's food and water. Neither of my dogs have minded a bit....in fact Luna would wait to eat until my kitty Tigger had his fill. Now I have kitty Bamboo, and he just sticks his head right in with Chili's and has a bite or two.

If the dog minds and the kitty doesn't take a hint, I'd make sure kitty is put up somewhere while the dog eats.

[Janus'sMom]

As far as the kid goes, he doesn't listen. Janus listens more than he does. I've told him numerous times that he can't be doing that, but he still does it (this has been going on for 2 wks). So now when I see him doing it in the middle of the day, I take his toys away, and in the morning I inspect the cage and if I find any, I take those away. Eventually he'll run out of small toys or learn that if he does that, then they get taken away (I've already got a wal-mart bag full of toy soldiers and what nots the same size). I was actually thinking of putting Janus's cage in my office, but then again, he'd just go in my office to keep putting toys in the cage.