Dog won't eat treat until I come back home (shepherd, clean, barking)
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I've wondered about this for a long time. Sometimes when I have to leave the house for a while, I'll give Lily a treat as I'm telling her goodbye. NEVER will she eat the treat until I come back home. It's kind of funny, when I return she greets me with excitement, then she runs to wherever the treat was left, and devours it.
Any other time I give her a treat (when I'm not leaving the house), she eats it right away.
I've wondered about this for a long time. Sometimes when I have to leave the house for a while, I'll give Lily a treat as I'm telling her goodbye. NEVER will she eat the treat until I come back home. It's kind of funny, when I return she greets me with excitement, then she runs to wherever the treat was left, and devours it.
Any other time I give her a treat (when I'm not leaving the house), she eats it right away.
How about your dogs?
My dog does this, I'd take it as a complement. Like when all is right in the world (when you are home), she will enjoy the treat.
Aw that's sweet. I've never had a dog that did that, but all the dogs I've had seem to not drink water when no one's home. If you come in after being gone all day, after the excited greeting, they run and drink water as if they hadn't had access to any all day. Of course, it's been sitting there the whole time.
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If you can consider Artie as having been normal, then it's normal. Artie did the same thing as Lily, every time. He'd never eat (or drink) unless I was home. If I went out, he went right to bed. He slept (or surfed the Internet, we'll never know) until I got home... and then ate and drank.
My dog only likes to eat his dog food when we're in the room, and he knows there's nothing going on elsewhere. He will sit all day while we're at work, and when we're eating dinner, he eats his dinner. I have a German shepherd, and they like to be attached to your hip.
Aw that's sweet. I've never had a dog that did that, but all the dogs I've had seem to not drink water when no one's home. If you come in after being gone all day, after the excited greeting, they run and drink water as if they hadn't had access to any all day. Of course, it's been sitting there the whole time.
Yes! Same thing with Lily and her water bowl.
What was particularly odd about what she did yesterday, was I tossed TWO biscuits (I guess I was feeling generous; I normally give her only one) on the floor. They landed a few feet apart. When I came home they were smack-dab right next to each other, looking very organized and tidy! Haha!
Another thing she does: if I put her in her crate before I leave, and toss a treat in there, she not only doesn't eat it, but she "buries" it! She'll tug on her blanket with her teeth, nudge it with her nose, over and over, until the treat is well covered by that blanket. When we come home, we let her out of the crate, she greets us with licks and excitement, then runs back to her crate to "unbury" the treat and eat it. Amazing to me that she remembers that it's there.
Our theory (joking) is that maybe she thinks, just in case we don't ever come back, she'll have at least one morsel of food left for her survival until she is found!
Last edited by kayanne; 07-21-2014 at 11:04 AM..
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That is cute. I have a dachshund that will not eat anything unless I am in the room with her. Not treat no food no water. My other doxies will eat or enjoy their treats but they prefer us to be in the room with them also.
When Jazz and Dash were alive I hide 6 bones stuffed with some sort of treat when I would go to work, they would find them and only clean about 1/2 out ( but if I stuffed one of those bones the same way when and gave it to them and stayed home they cleaned it out fast) When I got home I would have breakfast ( I work nights) and they would sit and watch me then the minute I put my spoon down and it clinked on the bowl. Jazz would be off and running and one by one she would bring me one of the bones.She would put a bone in my hand and I would poke the remains of the treat out , divide it in half and make them do a trick and give it to them then she would go get the next one. Dash was not allowed to pick one up and give it to me only Jazz could and sometimes she would run around like she could not find the last one yet it would be right in front of me and Dash would be standing near it wiggling his butt and barking every now and then like "here it is Jazz, here it is" but he would not touch it and she would finally get it and give it to me. Jazz invented the game and it became known as the pokey bone game . It has been almost 5 years since Dash died and almost 4 since Jazz died and I still miss the game. It is probably one of the things I miss the most about those two as Jazz started it when she was about 3 and she died at 14.5 so that was a long run for game! If I had a bad night at work I knew I had the pokey bone game to look forward too!
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. It is probably one of the things I miss the most about those two as Jazz started it when she was about 3 and she died at 14.5 so that was a long run for game! If I had a bad night at work I knew I had the pokey bone game to look forward too!
