[nagdu] Finicky eaters

[Linda Gwizdak]

Hey Rox,
That is interesting about the Zen thing and dogs having food at the table. 
Wow!  the frozen hambergers! Good Doggies!!! LOL! I wish everyone who likes 
to feed their dogs at the table wouold train them your way!

Happy Fourth!

Lyn and Landon
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> My vet who even sells kibble in his office, thinks my dogs are pretty 
> healthy.  He doesn't get extra money from me for things like teeth 
> cleaning since my dogs all have white teeth, but he still loves me 
> anyway! lol!  Actually Bristol, my 12.5 year old dog has been eating  this 
> way for ten years and he always comments on how healthy she is.
>
> My dogs do get fed by hand, and have occasionally been fed by hand  from 
> the table, We call this doggie Zen.  This means that in order to  get what 
> you want, you must ignore the thing that you want.  In order  for me to 
> think about feeding you from the table, you must be laying  calmly, head 
> down, and ignoring me, and my food.
> It is how I first teach young dogs to lay under a table once they 
> understand the concept of Zen which is used in many situations.  I  eat, 
> dog ignores me, click and treat.
> So come dinner time we have four dogs laying under the table ignoring  us. 
> Well Mill'E is waiting for me to drop something like a fork or a  box so 
> she can pick it up and bring it to me in hopes for "a tip."
> Once I dropped a bunch of frozen hamburger patties on the floor and  she 
> picked them up, one by one and handed them to me.  Since the said  patties 
> were by then, covered with dog spit and floor germs, I saved  them for the 
> dogs.  It was still great to see that my dog could  retrieve even food 
> items without snarfing them down.
>
>
> Rox and the Herbal HenchHounds
> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
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> out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half- wit, 
> and the emperor remains an emperor."-- Neil Gaiman
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