My Dog Can't Hold His Licker

Hello!

We were taught in service dog school to NEVER ever ever feed the dog while eating. Big no-no. It will break all those long hours of intensive training put in to keep your canine from begging. It is very difficult. Wait staff constantly want to feed Frax and we have to explain why he can't be fed. Mom was the very worst offender and we still have to put Frax away from her seat when at a table so she won't slip him a “small morsel or two”!!! She is 100% better about this, after reminding her that I won't be able to go out and eat if he thinks he can beg at the table. Thank goodness she finally got it! I felt like everyone thought I was being mean or overprotective.

Like all his kind, Frax does harken back to traditional dog rules:

Dog Rules:

If you have it: It's mine

If the cat drug it in: It's mine

If it's in the garbage: It's mine

If you hide it and I find it: It's mine!

Thus I guard my root beer for fear a fairly tall somebody will come along and try to taste test it. Frax truly has never found a food he didn't like. Garbage calls to him always...yum! He always looks at me askance as though to say “hey I can still SMELL garbage on the wind, can't I?” It's one of his weaknesses.

We really have to monitor food intake. When we were sent home he was eighteen months old...and ravenous. When we went home we had instructions about food intake as well as type of food and medications. We stuck to them, but eventually had to ask what to do about his hunger. We wound up adding a half cup of green beans to each feeding. It worked. He still wants extra but he isn't so pushy about it.

I do share my baby carrots with him when I dip them in salad dressing as a snack. He 'helps' by eating some plain. He really thinks that he is pulling one over on me, and there's nothing in the carrots to hurt him! Win-win!

ello!

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