Dog3 wrote:
>
> Nancy Young > :

> > Heh, my dog knew better than to even look at people food. No pet
> > begging in my house. Well, I have a strong suspicion that she would
> > get the occasional treat from the neighbors. So, if she was caught
> > staring at the neighbors when they cooked out, I would say, NO.
> >
> > No begging at the table, no begging, at all. So, if they were
> > cooking outside she couldn't help herself. She would race around
> > to this bush and hide under it and stare at them from there.
> >
> > (laughing) You had to see it to know how funny that was.

> Tell my mother. The one thing Missy never did was beg. Missy was a
> starving street dog when we found her. Not once did she beg at the table.
> Until... The Christmas the SO and I sat in the kitchen at my parent's with
> my mother. It was late, very late but we weren't ready to go to bed.
> Mother had made a pitcher of martinis, threw logs into the fire in the
> firplace and brought out the snacks. We sat in our jammies in the kitchen
> like roasting chestnuts and I happened to notice mother feeding the dog
> snack under the table. That was the end of Missy's good behavior. It was
> downhill from there. I guess I'm the mother in the house. I can give
> Missy 'the look' and she usually behaves. The SO spoils her rotten, like he
> does me.

Heh. My stepmother could not STAND pets. DISGUSTING. Then my father
died and, oddly, someone gave one of my brothers a dog. Well, before
you knew it, the dog would stretch up and eat from people's plates.

NO! Oh, poor Cookie. Poor Cookie my ass. She did love that dog.
But it was very poorly trained.

nancy