So I alternate raw and kibble (with proper fasting between, of course- never mix the 2) I'll essentially buy a week's worth of raw when it's on sale, if I happen to have the fridge space. (no room for a chest freezer) If raw is not on sale, the dogs get Orijen.

Koenig is thrilled to bits when he's on raw, but I've encountered a new 'problem'. I can't seem to prep chicken for MY dinner without him drooling outside the kitchen. LOL. Since it's raw meat, he just assumes it's for him. I just finished prepping some chicken wings for teriyaki, and the poor dog can barley contain himself. That whole PAN just MUST be for his lunch!!!!!!! Telling him to 'Go lay down' only goes so far... then he just ends up drooling on the carpet across the room.


...silly dog...

(This is not really an issue, I could put him in a crate if it really bothered me, I just thought some of you raw feeders may get a giggle out of it. Do your dogs go crazy when they see you prepping YOUR meal?)

My dogs do the same thing!

It is especially bad if I am using a 9x13 pan, because that is what I use in the fridge to prevent any raw leakage.

I recently made some cornbread and the dogs thought it was for sure dinner!

Years ago, I was pounding out a steak in the spot I normally prep dog dinner. It had fallen over the edge of the counter and my normally very good Grace was chewing on it as it moved closer and closer to her. What a snot! She "claimed" it was an honest mistake!

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Years ago, I was pounding out a steak in the spot I normally prep dog dinner. It had fallen over the edge of the counter and my normally very good Grace was chewing on it as it moved closer and closer to her. What a snot! She "claimed" it was an honest mistake!

Hahahahah!!!!!! Sneaky lady!!! I'm SURE it was an honest mistake. You always feed your dogs nice cuts of steak, right?

Koenig is not above licking the whip cream out of my coffee if I leave it in the car with him. He swears I leave it FOR him.

Mine do it too. They are a pack of the most pathetic beggars you ever saw. Doesn't matter what I'm preparing for human dinner--they all stand around asking "are you going to eat all that?"

I would absolutely have the same scene.

I'm a vegetarian, so the dogs are always excited to see the brown butcher paper come out of the grocery bags.

Well, they would be anyway, even if I ate meat. LOL

Every single time, their faces look like "Gasp! Is that MEAT!? Could it be MEAT for SUPPER?!"

And anything cooking on the stovetop or in the oven triggers a line of dogs at the doorway to the kitchen, necks stretched as far as possible without front paws actually on the kitchen tile .... (Alternatively, dogs are allowed under the kitchen table during food prep, but the view is better from the doorway.)


I love food drive. I love to work with food-drivey dogs. I would be hard put to complain about food excitement.

Good thing, too. I have pig-dogs, across the board.

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.... I just thought some of you raw feeders may get a giggle out of it. Do your dogs go crazy when they see you prepping YOUR meal?)

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.... they all stand around asking "are you going to eat all that?"

I will never forget the first day (the first hour!) my oldest little senior came from the rescue. The woman who drove to the Central Valley for the local SPCA to pick him up and drop him off at my house and I were around the coffee table with glasses of iced coffee, and I brought in a small little Tupperware container of crackers or something .... Oliver, who was already a senior at that time, flew off the floor as I was lowering the snacks onto the coffee table, springing about two feet into the air and snatching the container from my hand like Jaws, landing on the floor again with the container in his mouth and a few of the snacks still in it (and a few scattered in the impact).

It was so sudden, so unexpected, so successful .... we just stood there staring at him and at each other. I'm sure my mouth was hanging open. Then we just burst into tears-in-eyes laughter while he enjoyed his catch of the day.

I still laugh when I remember that.

(Needless to say, his manners have evolved since then. )

This would be a good representation of Oliver spying food going by, coiled to spring.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j275/connies419/nate%20and%20oliver/oliver1.jpg

Our freezer is in the basement, so needless to say, the excitement starts as soon as I go down the stairs and turn right!
I, of course, do nothing to help the situation and always give a scrap of whatever I got out for my dinner, raw, after a few ob commands, that is...

Good thing is that a tiny scrap goes a long way for a minpin

of course, isn't every thing about them? Ha! When the ups man comes, they assume it is some treats from leerburg. When I get meat out, they are sure the meat is for them. When I cook veggies, or eat fruit, they think it is always for them. I have had to have them sit outside the kitchen as I fix dinner because they pester me. So now I have to ask them, where do you go? and they run to the outer boundry of the kitchen and just sit and stare. They crack me up! I did get a kick out of your story! sharon

Apparantly, Blue Buffalo smells good to teenagers, too (the human kind). I was soaking it for the dogs, placed the bowls in the oven - not turned on, it's the only way to keep the cats out of the dogs' food. Anyway, I opened the oven and got 'What's for dinner? It smells good.' from the kid. lol

Like I would actually cook for the humans, that's HER job.

Hehehehe!!!

We actually had to stop feeding the cat raw because she became SOOOO obsessed with meal times that she would jump up and attack anything we pulled out of the 'fridge. And if we walked into the kitchen ('fridge attention or not) she would stop what ever she was doing and run screaming and crying straight at us.

If we carried anything small up the stairs (we feed her in the laundry room) she would run in circles around us, screaming the whole time of course, leaping at whatever was in our hands.

This cat actually became dangerous. She is nearly as scary on kibble.