<div>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</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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!</div>
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<div>Brenda- momslave to Copper and Elphaba and auntslave to Jesse and Vinnie</div>