Are your pets mentally stable?

I have a dog who after 14 years of life (a life completely devoted to finding food, whether it be dog food, (preferably) human food, dead squirrels and other small animals, or even, it has to be said, various forms of shit) now refuses to eat food out of a bowl or a plate. :-\

She hasn't been eating her food for like a week. I started to worry that she's sick, after all she is old. But she goes nuts every time she's withing smelling distance of human food, so its not like she's disgusted by the thought of food. So tonight, I decide to sit outside with her while she (doesn't) eat, mainly because I wanted to keep my other younger kind of morbidly obese dog from eating her food which is what's been going on for the last week. So, instead of eating her food, she waits until the other dog has eaten and then licks the empty bowl. In the meantime I tried to move her food towards her and a bit of food fell out. She pounced on it.

So, I thought, is there something wrong with the bowl? So I moved her food to the other dogs empty bowl, nothing happened. I even went and got a plate, moved the food to that plate. Nothing happened. I dumped the food out on the ground and she went after it like she hadn't eaten in months.

Batshit crazy.

Haha

My dogs entire life centres on food. All she wants to do is eat and would jump off a cliff chasing a sausage. She's very well trained though, soft as shit really.

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Too funny, I would suggest putting a little bit of human food (grilled chicken, rice, etc) on her dog food, maybe that will get her eating out of the bowl again.

Sometimes my dog will take a mouthful of food walk over from her bowl to the carpet, drop the food and then eat it.....odd really, but he's a very well trained dog.

I recon your dog maybe thinks that if the food is given to them on a plate or in a bowl, that it belongs to the other dog..... Like it waits for your other dog to finish and then will lick the bowl at the end....
So you may just have to always chuck it on the ground now... Until the other one comes over again and says "hey what are you doing dumb ass? the food on the ground is mine too!"
then you're really screwed...

Nah no way. Hade a cat named Nigel who would chew and claw up EVERY roll of tissue and paper towel in the house. A dog named Ras-I who stood at top of stairs and howled on fight night, barked at his shadow and tried to bite it on the wall...even though he'd hit his head he would try to attack it over and over, actually fall over and get back up. Nuts. Cat named Duncan tries to climb inside of the fridge and eats coffee grounds. He's straight nuts. Sits at work and attacks shepards and large breeds when they walk by, bites the ankles.

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Originally Posted by Dizaster

I recon your dog maybe thinks that if the food is given to them on a plate or in a bowl, that it belongs to the other dog..... Like it waits for your other dog to finish and then will lick the bowl at the end....
So you may just have to always chuck it on the ground now... Until the other one comes over again and says "hey what are you doing dumb ass? the food on the ground is mine too!"
then you're really screwed...

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See that would make sense if this dog was timid in the slightest. Like five years ago I was grilling steaks with some friends and we put the plate on the table, turned around for a minute and she went flying out into the backyard with a ribeye in her mouth. And the other dog is her daughter and if anything is the timid one. I think she's just losing it a bit.

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Originally Posted by Dizaster

I recon your dog maybe thinks that if the food is given to them on a plate or in a bowl, that it belongs to the other dog..... Like it waits for your other dog to finish and then will lick the bowl at the end....
So you may just have to always chuck it on the ground now... Until the other one comes over again and says "hey what are you doing dumb ass? the food on the ground is mine too!"
then you're really screwed...

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See that would make sense if this dog was timid in the slightest. Like five years ago I was grilling steaks with some friends and we put the plate on the table, turned around for a minute and she went flying out into the backyard with a ribeye in her mouth. And the other dog is her daughter and if anything is the timid one. I think she's just losing it a bit.

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Yeah could be.... Dogs do go a bit crazy when they get older... My girlfriend's family have a jack russell that's get on over 20 years old now, and it is nuts... It equally won't eat out of a bowl.. You literally have to just throw food to it... Even putting it near it's mouth while still in your hand won't do....

As long as you can be creative enough for it to snap out of it and get some food into it, it may just come good at some time.. But at least it's eating....

My dog can spell too, I can ask him if he wants a "B-A-T-H" and he ducks his head and goes to his bed to hide.

Ouma, your dog clearly has issues. Have you tried changing the bowl? Perhaps the current bowl brings on painful memories. Still, at least it is eating off of the floor. Not all bad.

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Originally Posted by Dizaster

I recon your dog maybe thinks that if the food is given to them on a plate or in a bowl, that it belongs to the other dog..... Like it waits for your other dog to finish and then will lick the bowl at the end....
So you may just have to always chuck it on the ground now... Until the other one comes over again and says "hey what are you doing dumb ass? the food on the ground is mine too!"
then you're really screwed...

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See that would make sense if this dog was timid in the slightest. Like five years ago I was grilling steaks with some friends and we put the plate on the table, turned around for a minute and she went flying out into the backyard with a ribeye in her mouth. And the other dog is her daughter and if anything is the timid one. I think she's just losing it a bit.

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I agree totally with Diz actually. I think in her old age she has become subserviant to the other dog and now thinks of food in a bowl as belonging to him. Just stick the food on the floor when the other dog isn't around.

Also, if the other dog tries to eat her food, make sure you whip and beat him in front of her so she can see you are on her side.

We got a lurcher/collie from dogs trust a couple of years ago, absolutely fucking mental but amazingly well behaved and no trouble at all. Doesnt bark.....ever, runs too fast for her own good then forgets what she's running after, as soon as she sees a puddle she has to lie in it, eats rabbit food (along with rabbit shit because she cant tell the difference between the two). A couple of our neighbours are really pleased that the hedghog feed they put out is always getting eaten, I havent got around to telling them it isnt a hedghog thats eating it yet.

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She went through a phase of chasing cats but doesnt anymore because she got her arse handed to her by a moggy up the road. She always brings me a shoe whenever I come in, it might not be my shoe but she always brings me one. She got spayed a while back and had to wear a cone for a while, she got her head stuck in the bin with that on.

She's mental but I wouldnt have it any other way, she fits in to our family just right.

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Originally Posted by Dizaster

I recon your dog maybe thinks that if the food is given to them on a plate or in a bowl, that it belongs to the other dog..... Like it waits for your other dog to finish and then will lick the bowl at the end....
So you may just have to always chuck it on the ground now... Until the other one comes over again and says "hey what are you doing dumb ass? the food on the ground is mine too!"
then you're really screwed...

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See that would make sense if this dog was timid in the slightest. Like five years ago I was grilling steaks with some friends and we put the plate on the table, turned around for a minute and she went flying out into the backyard with a ribeye in her mouth. And the other dog is her daughter and if anything is the timid one. I think she's just losing it a bit.

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Might be going blind.

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We got a lurcher/collie from dogs trust a couple of years ago, absolutely fucking mental but amazingly well behaved and no trouble at all. Doesnt bark.....ever, runs too fast for her own good then forgets what she's running after, as soon as she sees a puddle she has to lie in it, eats rabbit food (along with rabbit shit because she cant tell the difference between the two). A couple of our neighbours are really pleased that the hedghog feed they put out is always getting eaten, I havent got around to telling them it isnt a hedghog thats eating it yet.

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She went through a phase of chasing cats but doesnt anymore because she got her arse handed to her by a moggy up the road. She always brings me a shoe whenever I come in, it might not be my shoe but she always brings me one. She got spayed a while back and had to wear a cone for a while, she got her head stuck in the bin with that on.

She's mental but I wouldnt have it any other way, she fits in to our family just right.

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My dog eats deer crap. Plopeater would be proud eh Memphis?

My dog foams at the mouth when he gets around female dogs. He looks like he has a goatee when he has his foam on.

I'll have to post an updated pic of him, he'll be 6 this summer. Great, great dog...very smart, obedient, and still has a lot of personality. He's spoiled damn rotten though.

I thought I found my dog, but now I think that I stole her.
In 2007 I was fishing at a lake and saw some people with three black labs throw something into the lake: when one of the dogs jumped into to fetch it, they drove off. That dog then walked past 20 other people, came directly to me, ate my lunch, got in my car and wouldn't get out. So I took her home, fattened her up and spoiled her rotten.
Over time I came to see what a nuisance she can be and have often resorted to pretending to throw something in one direction so that I could escape in another. I've learned that she is always hungry for human food, and I still have trouble getting her out of the car. In 09 we went ice-fishing/drinking at the same lake and she acted like she was coming home, so I think I stole her.
Kimberly- my dog- is not at all stable. She has elevated passive-aggressive bullying to an art form. She has this habit of twisting her head to look at people that she wants to pet her upside down, and often this causes her to fall down. And she falls all the time on the ice outside.