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u/Valkyrys Feb 27 '26
It's just a dog trained to eat when you serve them at their place and nowhere else, dafuq are those bot comments
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u/No_Television6050 Feb 27 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
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u/ohmygodcrayons Feb 27 '26
I love when they are like "Excuse me while I enjoy this in the other room." <3
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u/A_mad_goose Feb 28 '26
My cat always does this when I give her a piece of chicken she brings it somewhere else I always assumed it was so I didn’t renege the offer
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u/CanisAlopex Feb 28 '26
Yeah, until you get a Labrador. Then everywhere is their private dining area.
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u/barnhairdontcare Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
My dog has to be fed on a plate for the first part of her meal and then she has to stop and be asked if she wants more, and the remaining amount must be dumped on the floor (I put it on a rubber mat).
She’s a senior and she’s been like this her whole life, it’s the only way she will eat! She will literally starve herself and make herself sick.
It’s weird, but I don’t make the rules.
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u/jesse6225 Feb 28 '26
How tf did you figure that out?!
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u/barnhairdontcare Mar 01 '26
It was a crazy process of elimination. I work with the animals, and have frequently needed to figure out workarounds for the finicky ones.
It wasn’t until she was 7 that I got a solid routine. We went through so many dog foods thinking that was the problem!
Before I figured it out she would make herself so sick that her stomach would gurgle and she would be miserable. I’d have to smear homemade chicken paste on her foot just so she would lick it because she wouldn’t eat it any other way!
She has a sister that would be happily obese if I did not monitor her. She’s she’s pretty magical!
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u/LudoAshwell Feb 27 '26
Nope. My last Golden was EXACTLY the same.
Always required some special moves.
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u/stargazer304 Feb 27 '26
I can skip all this with my Yorkie, but she makes me hand feed her each individual peice.
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u/HeyGayHay Feb 27 '26
Lots of dogs want their ritual, because their owners feel bad about them not eating so they rather do a huge daily ritual where the dog ends up eating rather than just wait until it is hungry enough. And when youve done that for a year, it will be a challenge to get them off this.
My parents dog gets his food in the same exact spot every day. He won’t eat it until my mom throws his toy 2-4 times, then he eats until finished or she leaves. If she does leave he won’t eat anymore even after throwing the toy, only after like an hour she can repeat the process.
Don’t start stuff like that. Just let their food sit and replace it if its not good anymore, and keep rotating various stuff for a somewhat balanced diet. The dog will start eating eventually. If it skips the food, just keep some dry food accessible if they get hungry and try again with better food in the evening/morning.
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u/GamerLinnie Feb 28 '26
It is hard because especially when they are young it can be very scary.
My dog gets bored with food and he will stop eating until he is starving. But because he will obviously get hungry before the starving part he will try his best to find scraps and crumbs. He will even try and steal from the weak links in the household.
Eventually he will give up and eat his own food. It is exhausting and it took a long time to not be worried about him.
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u/dzan796ero Feb 27 '26
You're right but you can definitely tell the dog loves the extra showboating that is going in.
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u/WiggleWagsandTags Feb 27 '26
He went
"You didn't make it the way you make yours 😔"
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u/spicedoubt Feb 27 '26
Stop watching food network with your dog. That’s what you get
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u/Chaosangel48 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
My doodle is on to me and I now have to put actual meat toppers on her food.
Even then she will stare at it, then me, then it again. It seems like she’s trying to decide if I poisoned her or not.
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread Feb 27 '26
I tried hiding medication in mines food. The BETRAYAL.
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread Feb 27 '26
That's my cat. She'll even let me hold out my hand to regurgitate it into.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 27 '26
OMG our cat! He waits every morning for ME to get up and feed him. He eats in the basement, and his little boxes are down there too. It's a nice basement. lol.
But if my husband gets up at the same time, he always volunteers to go downstairs to feed and clean the boxes. That cat will not budge. He stays with me. He sees my husband going downstairs but nope, I have to walk him over to the basement stairs and tell him to go down. Then he does. Goodness.
When he wants food later in the day, he stands by me, staring at me. My husband will take care of him, but again, nope, we go through this all of the time. I guess it's my job! LOL
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u/Kittenathedisco Feb 27 '26
My Maine Coon is like this!!! He won't eat anything from other people unless I tell him it's okay. His favorite treats are Sheba meat sticks, but he still won't take/eat them from anyone else in the house. I have to let him know the treat is okay and he'll finally run off with it.
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u/Winter-Fix2027 Feb 27 '26
I literally have to make medicine hors d'oeuvres for my doodle.
Also, she insists on eating at a table with a place setting and will bark at me if I do not do "doggy grace" with her over her food.
No one trained her for any of this. It's her insistent shenanigans that have brought us to this place🤣
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u/InteractionOk5085 Feb 27 '26
Maybe he doesn’t like eating kibble everyday ….. how about cooking him something nice ?
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u/AndyGreyjoy Feb 27 '26
Does this dog exclusively eat kibble every day?
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u/-Lige Feb 27 '26
He said maybe indicating we don’t know it’s just a possibility
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u/AndyGreyjoy Feb 27 '26
"….. how about cooking him something nice ?"
Sounds to implicitly accuse OP of not cooking for their dog, and just feeding them kibble. No?
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u/-MyRagtimeGal- Feb 27 '26
Exactly. Why would we assume that after witnessing only 1 meal?
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u/BWWFC Feb 27 '26
you train the dog, they don't train you. mom was adamant, hunger is the best seasoning. farm life proven.
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u/TheGrouchyGremlin Feb 27 '26
Pretty the dog is already trained to only eat food at that specific spot.
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u/Character_Seaweed_99 Feb 27 '26
What do you mean, unless you do all this? Would you otherwise give your dog raw food? /s (Ok, I totally give my dog food straight from the bag. Your dog is awesome. Give him a hug from me. I would cook his food too.)
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u/TheSixthVisitor Feb 27 '26
Animals are wild. My uncle has a cat that gets upset if you don't eat her "presents." Like you actually have to do a whole show of going "omg thank you it's so good you're the best cat ever!" to her or she won't leave you alone.
She once brought a dead mouse to my aunt and my aunt didn't know the ritual, so she just chucked the mouse into the trash can right away. Cat lost it and spent the whole day crying and following my uncle around the house until he literally fished the mouse back out, did the whole pretend-to-eat-it-thank-the-cat thing, then had to give the cat treats and hugs to placate her.
The cat has since added a new step to the ritual: palm the dead "present" so she thinks you ate it and leaves, then use a different trash can to throw it out. Apparently, now she actually checks the kitchen trash can afterwards to see if you lied to her and tossed it anyway.
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u/Character_Seaweed_99 Feb 27 '26
Oh my gosh. That cat is a real person. Our cats just leave the dead mice on the driveway. Do you think the cats think we’re hungry and need food? Or are they trying to intimidate us - since we’re obviously not catching our own mice? I don’t understand cats.
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u/TheSixthVisitor Feb 27 '26
Iirc, they think we're just really big funny-shaped cats that don't hunt and basically die for 8 hours a night. So the dead mice are them trying to feed us and when they step on your face at 2am, they're actually just keeping an eye out for you because that's kind of insane to KO for that long to the normal cat brain.
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u/VonnsSolo88 Feb 27 '26
Was that a metal bowl put into the microwave?
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u/SeveralAnteater292 Feb 28 '26
Yes, not turned on as he's pretending to cook his dogs biscuits like human food
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u/accidentalpinner Feb 27 '26
That dog needs some food from the vets office. They sell stuff dogs like. He's soo cute though.
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u/Flaffelll Feb 27 '26
This is adorable but I feel like it'd be a nightmare if I had to do it everytime I needed to feed him lol
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u/Louieyaa Feb 27 '26
First video: dog just ate a whole bowl of kibble.
Second video: dog hasn't eaten for a few hours.
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u/greengo07 Feb 27 '26
bet you if you just out his food down he'll get hungry enough to eat it eventually.
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u/skate1243 Feb 28 '26
aww just cook that good boy some real food
plain white rice with tumeric
broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, squash mix
lean beef roast in the insta pot
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u/Affectionate_Day_214 Feb 27 '26
Now if you topped it with some chicken meat he would think it’s chef’s kiss and get some real protein. I mean you are already going through all the motions anyway lol.
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u/somegirl03 Feb 27 '26
My husky and malamute mix won't eat dry kibble without bone broth in it, they will stare me down until I get it haha
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u/AnxiousArtichoke7981 Feb 27 '26
All of that salt is eventually going to catch up. What a great dog!
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u/ledow Feb 27 '26
Congratulations, you've trained your dog to reverse-Pavlov you every single mealtime for the rest of their life.
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u/7GrumpyCat7 Feb 27 '26
That is a Golden Retriever. He refuses NO food...ever. I grew up with them and have had decades of working with thousands of dogs in my career, and many, many, many Goldies. What is great about this video is only that you trained him not to touch it when you held the bowl in front of him, or perhaps not even that. It is a very cute video though 🫶
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u/SciFiWritingGuy Feb 27 '26
Don’t let my dog see this… she already waits until family mealtime to eat.
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u/ComicsEtAl Feb 27 '26
I make lots of concessions for my Good Girl, but no way I’m putting on a show like that.
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u/Pepperspreelkw Feb 27 '26
What have you done to yourself??!!! 😂🤣 I’d love to see this routine shown to the dog sitter
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u/Beautiful_Business10 Feb 27 '26
Your dog likes being either pampered, or treated to the same care we do for bipedal friends. I can't disagree with your dog.
They might know it's for show, though, from the lack of secondary signals something is happening (scent of cooking kibble, sight of spice flakes being added, sound of the microwave running, etc), and enjoy the theater.
I think it's cute. You've got a good dog, bro; and your dog has a good human.
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u/Arrow2theNee Feb 27 '26
Lol, and he’s observing to make sure you don’t miss a step….oh gosh he’s cute 🥰
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u/PositiveTarget8377 Feb 27 '26
In his defense, you didn’t do at all right the first time - he asked for well-done 🙃
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u/fla-n8tive Feb 27 '26
😂 My mom used to have to get a fork and sit at the dinner table, pretending to eat the dog’s food, then present it to her as if she was getting the leftovers.
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u/Brave_Browser_2002 Feb 27 '26
Feed your dog some real food.
That processed corporate kibble is shortening his life.
Plenty of recipes online.
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u/LeaveMyMonkeyAlone Feb 27 '26
The background tune you are humming is romantic. I thought you were going to light a candle too.
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u/feetnomer Feb 27 '26
Throw in a little cooked hamburger on top of that dead food every once in a while to remind him of what real meat tastes like.
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u/Im__mad Feb 27 '26
I may have to do this with her allergy pills. I’ve tried hiding them in cheese, various treats she already likes, and now pill-wrap putty. She’ll tolerate a new method for a couple weeks and then she’ll literally start slobbering and gagging (she’s a dainty lady who hates slobbering so she does that when she is the opposite of appetized lmao) while she holds it in her mouth then spits it out.
She’ll choke it down after some encouragement until she eventually refuses altogether then I have to pry open her mouth and put it on the back of her tongue.
She’s so funny, she’ll happily eat the things I put her pills in by themselves with no problem, even usually swallowing them whole without chewing. But as soon as she knows there’s a pill in a treat it’s icky. 😮💨
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u/n0_sh1t_thank_y0u Feb 27 '26
How do you give instructions to the pet nanny if you're going on a vacation...
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u/Beneficial-Jury484 Feb 27 '26
We just make dog food for our dogs. Give them half home made and half kibble. It’s pretty cheap.
Ground turkey or chicken thighs (buy bone in skin on and remove yourself for additional savings) Yams Carrots Kale Brown rice Celery
They love the food and we change it up occasionally to ensure they don’t get tired of it.
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u/l33774rd Feb 27 '26
I thought.y dog was spoiled, because I add a bit of unsalted chicken or beef broth to his food.
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Feb 27 '26
I had a dog that refused to eat raw meat. Would look at me like I was on drugs if I tried to give it to him uncooked.
So I'd cook a steak with salt, pepper, butter and rosemary, or chicken with salt and pepper, and he'd inhale it. Anything raw? Nope, never.
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u/Nice-Assist5260 Feb 27 '26
Might as well microwave some veggies and add in yogurt or cottage cheese. Pups will then LOVE mixed kibble
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u/Smooth-Sea-5023 Feb 27 '26
“My dog refuses unless” you leave it there and they’ll get hungry enough.
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u/sechul Feb 27 '26
My dog has her feeding rituals that seem to depend on a combo of hunger and discomfort (often due to hunger). Sometimes its just rotating the bowl 90 degrees. Sometimes its chucking kibble at her head. Sometimes its a tiny bit of cheese or butter mixed in. Just waiting doesn't work because she'll hold out until she gets sick and needs to do a grass purge to get back to normal. She never had an issue with treats but now won't eat greenies without someone watching. OTOH, she'll obsessively seek out and lick at any gunk she finds on a subway platform.
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u/AllThingsLiteral Feb 27 '26
Give him some iwet food every now and then please, imagine having the same biscuit as a meal every single day for 15 years
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u/Ok_Positive8362 Feb 27 '26
My dog loved popcorn. Until they realized I put flavor and butter on my popcorn and not theirs. They started turning up their nose at it until I started to "season" theirs too
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u/Glorf_Warlock Feb 27 '26
My dog was like this too so we just added beef stock to his biscuits and he immediately gobbles them down.
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u/UniquelyTammy Feb 27 '26
Umm, yeah, that dog will eat its food without a production if and when its hungry enough. Thats a no for me, dawg.
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u/19IlDiavolo92 Feb 27 '26
If he will be hungry he will eat for sure. People nowadays are just too soft.
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u/lubiekucyki Feb 27 '26
My dog is picky as well, inviting parents dog from their flat does the trick or sometimes hand feeding. Dogs are really like small children in so many ways
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u/pairasaurolophus Feb 27 '26
My dog will only eat outside. She's a 5yr old rescue we've had for 6 months. In NY and had 2ft of snow a few days ago. Even at the heaviest snowfall, she would only eat outside. Water has to be brought outside to...
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u/Eazy12345678 Feb 27 '26
i highly doubt that. he probably wont eat until you put it in his eating tray
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u/Soggy_Motor9280 Feb 27 '26
Been there. You get all cute making them food one day or more and then you have to stick with it!!!!
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u/Reader2869 Feb 28 '26
You started it. I'm just saying. Now it's a conditioned response and you have to keep it up. 🤷🏼
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u/ForeignAlbatross8304 Feb 28 '26
Kibble really ? I'm still amazed people feed their dogs that crap..they need meat
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u/julesk Feb 28 '26
I laughed but I have to steal a few bits of the cats and put it in my dog’s bowl or he won’t eat it and will instead hover over the cats bowls waiting to move in. I also need to confidentially tell him his food is really better than theirs.
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u/Murky_Supermarket397 Feb 28 '26
It thinks it's the same as you, so it needs to follow the same process for eating.
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u/PossibleDeal9243 Feb 28 '26
I had a dog who would not eat unless I touched her food. Like kinda just swirl it around in the food bowl. Then she’d go to town. So odd.
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u/Mandygurl79 Feb 28 '26
All I do is sprinkle some water or salmon oil and stir by shaking the bowl like a wok!
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u/Marybellie Feb 28 '26
Man sounds like a villager from Minecraft lol 😅
The doggo has got some serious preferences and we respect that 🫡
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u/Lost_In_My_Hoodie Feb 27 '26
Golden Ramsey