Clock Watchers?

[pkmiddler]

Hi my name is Tray I just figured out this puter thing Mom & Dad play on so here goes. Are there any of you Doggie Guys (DeeNee says girls too) like us who have their hoomans trained to feed you at a certain time,you see they do not know we can tell time.They say how smart we are so how do think we couldn't figure the clock thing out.I mean if it's 6:30 it's Doggie Dinner Time no if's and's or but's right? DeeNee and I hate when Mom says "Oh just wait a minute" a second is to long RIGHT GUYS? So DeeNee tells Mom and I lean against the food bid to SHOW Mom (just incase she forgot)where the food is sometimes I have to talk to her too!!Can you beat that Hooman's Can't live with them can't live without them.

[Mark]

Hi Tray,

Masse here. Yep, we got hoodaddy trained real good. He works in his office upstairs (we're not allowed upstairs) and at 10 to 5 Top Spin sits at the bottom of the stairs waiting & whining till he comes down. Then at 5:15 PM we all (us 3 puppers) go in the kitchen and give him the L@@K till he comes to feed us (kinda like a long distance Vulcan mind-meld). To make sure he doesn't forget, Duck Butter & I always lead him to the pantry where our food is kept.

Yep, nothing like a well trained hooman! http://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

Masse

[Krista]

Puppers this is Roscoe. I too have my mama trained. When she lets us back in from our morning potty break I run to my bowl and look in it. If its empty, I push it into the side of the stove so it makes a loud bang to let her know it needs filled. Then I do the happy food dance while she fills it up. Rudy does that to the water bowl when he drinks it all up too, so we are both doing our jobs!

[Mandy]

This is Jakey. I am not as subtle as you guys.....not when it comes to something as important as FOOD! I just scratch my bowl and push it through the house until it is right in front of Mommy. The I go back and forth with the bowl in front of her so she doesn't miss me! Later I try to do this with the Daddy to see if I can get more food out of him!

[dutchman]

Hi guys,

It sounds like you just don't have your hooman trained right. When I think it's time to eat I'll go find dad and then sit down very politely near him and start barking at him. I sometimes use this same technique to get let out if dad is busy on the computer. Sometimes dad will put a hand under my chin and lift up telling me to be quiet and that it's too early to eat but most of the time it works. So far I haven't been able to train my big brother Frank to sing a duet with me. Frank is kind of strange sometimes I wonder if he really is a dachshund since eating isn't a big deal to him. He does like his breakfast however. In the mornings I'd rather sleep in than eat.

Tanner

[OwnedByChaucer]

This is Chaucer--you all must be small. I'm a big boy!

When my mommy doesn't get me fed fast enough, first I scurry around at her feet barking at the top of the fridge or the stove, wherever I see the food tub.

If she's still not moving it, or there is something good up there that the sick foster boy is getting (i.e. hamburger and rice) that I am not (NO FAIR!) I just LEAP up to the stove where she is dishing up the food. I'm getting good at it and now I can almost get up high enough to see the top of the stove, and my paws can touch the handle on the oven.

Mommy tries to stop my jumping, but she's powerless. I'll listen about not jumping other times, but not when there's food involved.

But, we do know how to tell time (gidget and me; we're still teaching that Lance boy). We know to go to the baby gate a 6:15 a.m., b/c Daddy will be coming down, and then, we know at 7:45 p.m. MOMMY'S HOME!!!!! so for 20 minutes before that, we run around the kitchen all crazy waiting to hear her....

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[pkmiddler]

Tray here I'm a Standard I weight 28 pounds and have been training these Hooman mom & Dad things for 10 years now. They got me from my born to hooman when I was 1 year old and DeeNee has been working on them for 2 years but she is 7 people years old.Any how the Mom will not let us "go crazy as she calls it so all 6 of us run to our cages to wait for dinner.Sometimes the Mom is toooo slow for me and Sallie so we go back to the kitchen to check if she is really comming.Mostly we just wait to see what goddies are on the crunchie food.Awful waits with Mom to see if she drops any she does sometimes.

[LisaH]

Hi, Annie here. I have found the most effective method is to start STARING at my Mom about an hour before dinner time. STARE, inch toward her, STARE some more. Pretty soon I'm in her lap, STARING. Believe me, she always breaks. <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm7.gif" border=0>

[twix0699]

I am not sure what is wrong with all of you! It is not very mannerly to be so forceful about food! If you are calmer about it and don't gulp it down so fast your hoomans might do what my mommy does... she just puts food in my bowl whenever it is empty. I never have to wait for dinner time, I just get to eat whenever I want. She says she likes "free feeding" me and wishes my brother Max, who I never got to meet, would not have been such a pig! My momma tells me I am very ladylike (except when she finds me on my back totally relaxed and waiting for her to walk in and rub my tummy, then she tells me I look a bit too easy--whatever that means). Any way, I was wondering if Miss Madders had anything to say about this behavior demonstrated by my friends!

Twix

[pkmiddler]

FREE FEEDING YOU SAY WHY WASN'T I TOLD ABOUT THIScan you say 200 pound DACHSHUND<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm40.gif" border=0>

[JAAGS]

<FONT face="Century Gothic">We don't make too big a fuss over dinner, but BREAKFAST is a different matter. See, we have chicken and rice with green beans, peas, and carrots for breakfast, and that beats old dried dinner every time. The only problem is that everyone has to go outside before anyone gets fed. And there's always one of the four that wants to sleep in. Well, never Shiloh, but one of the others. Boy, we're learning how to get everyone up so Mom can feed us. The real problem comes when our three cousins come to visit for the weekend. Mom says it's impossible to get 7 doxie bowls down before the first ones are finished and want to eat from the last ones. And, FORGET this "be nice to your guests" stuff!!! When it comes to food, we're each for ourselves!</FONT f><IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm28.gif" border=0>

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