Are your pets mentally stable?

[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...

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.

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....