I've probably told this story here before, but not recently.
My ex-wife and I had two lovely dogs that we raised from rescue puppies. (She still has them and loves them.) Once, when they were still little bitty things (I don't remember if they were even potty-trained yet), we got ourselves a dinner of barbecue and sat on the floor with them to eat it. We carefully didn't drop a single crumb, and we basically ignored them.
They spent the first fifteen minutes going "What's that? It smells _really good_. Can we try it?" And then they lost interest. Apparently they figured that people food was not edible for dogs, because they never begged for people food after that. Even being at a neighbor's barbecue party where the neighbor's dogs were stealing out of the trash cans, ours just played and ignored the food.
Until I made a mistake. Just one mistake. See, our dogs liked to eat carrots. And one time, I pulled three carrots out of the fridge, gave them each one, and bit into the third.
They stared at me eating that carrot. Stared hard like they were re-thinking something important about the universe. And after that, they begged... just a little.
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My ex-wife and I had two lovely dogs that we raised from rescue puppies. (She still has them and loves them.) Once, when they were still little bitty things (I don't remember if they were even potty-trained yet), we got ourselves a dinner of barbecue and sat on the floor with them to eat it. We carefully didn't drop a single crumb, and we basically ignored them.
They spent the first fifteen minutes going "What's that? It smells _really good_. Can we try it?" And then they lost interest. Apparently they figured that people food was not edible for dogs, because they never begged for people food after that. Even being at a neighbor's barbecue party where the neighbor's dogs were stealing out of the trash cans, ours just played and ignored the food.
Until I made a mistake. Just one mistake. See, our dogs liked to eat carrots. And one time, I pulled three carrots out of the fridge, gave them each one, and bit into the third.
They stared at me eating that carrot. Stared hard like they were re-thinking something important about the universe. And after that, they begged... just a little.