[Dailydrool] Guarding Behavior

[Brenda Waldrop]

Bev- I laughed out loud at work when I read this.  We have a table in our
kitchen that seats two and is one of those bar-type tall tables with chairs
so high your legs don't reach the ground.  This is the only table in the
house that the dogs can't reach, and it's usually covered with a laptop and
various and sundry other items, making it unusable for eating.  Besides
which, why would we want to sit there when there is a comfy couch in the
living room calling our name.  lol

Every meal, snack, and cooking experience is a slave guarding-behavior
training exercise at our house.  Two bassets and two long-leggers have us
wrapping our arms around plates, holding them over our heads, and setting
them on top of bookshelves, refrigerators etc. every time the phone rings,
or some other event forces us to leave the food unguarded.

Tuesday night I grilled steaks, with all four dogs underfoot the entire time
of course.  We were all sitting on the couch, eating in the short spaces
between exclamations of, "Copper get down! Jesse sit, keep your nose off the
plate. Elphaba get off Morgan's lap!"  At one point my roommate cut a piece
of steak, and between her  plate and her mouth, Jesse, the tallest of the
long-leggers, tried to grab the bite right off her fork.  Later that night
she was unpacking a package her mom sent her that contained a refrigerator
magnet from MT.  Jesse is right there with her nose in the package and Tammy
says, "It's a magnet dummy, you can't eat it!" (holding it out to Jesse to
prove the point.)  At which point Jesse grabs the magnet in her mouth and
runs off!

Brenda- momslave to Copper and Elphaba and auntslave to Jesse and Vinnie
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