{"id":46444,"date":"2015-04-02T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=46444"},"modified":"2015-04-02T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T00:40:15","slug":"pet-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/pet-196\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny and Jessie&#039;s Pet Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11may\/petcolumn.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nWhy Does My Dog&#8230; Eat His Food Away From His Bowl? <!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dog.jpg\" alt=\"dog\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-46447\" \/>It can be a peculiar sight: After you put food in your dog\u2019s bowl, he takes a mouthful, walks across the room, drops it onto your carpet and then munches away. And he repeats this curious ritual until his chow is all gone.<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t seem like an efficient way to eat \u2014 not to mention that he&#8217;s getting crumbs on your rug.<br \/>\nSo what gives?<br \/>\n<strong>Possible Reasons Behind the Curious Mealtime Behavior<\/strong><br \/>\nThe answer to this propensity lies in two words: pack mentality.<br \/>\nWhen dogs in the wild make a kill, the outranked animals drag pieces of food away so they don\u2019t have to fight the leader or a more dominant canine for it, says Dr. Julie Albright-Keck, DVM, MA, DACVB, an assistant professor of veterinary behavior at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.<br \/>\n\u201cFighting is obviously very risky, so most animals, especially subordinate ones, will go to great lengths to avoid an altercation,\u201d says Dr. Albright.<br \/>\nAlthough the competition in your house may not even be real \u2014 particularly if you only have one dog \u2014 it\u2019s his evolutionary instinct taking over.<br \/>\nAnother possibility: If you use a metal bowl, the noise of the food moving around in the dish or even his collar tags hitting the side can be frightening or annoying, notes Dr. Albright, so he may be taking the kibble away from the trigger of the sound.<br \/>\nHow to Put the Kibosh on This Kibble Ritual<br \/>\nIf you want to curb this unusual eating behavior, Dr. Albright suggests swapping metal bowls for plastic versions or paper plates to rule out issues with noise.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the dog still takes the food away, find a more secluded or confined area for him to eat,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd if there are other dogs in the house, separate them at feeding time to allow for privacy, so there\u2019s no threat of competition \u2014 either real or imagined.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Does My Dog&#8230; Eat His Food Away From His Bowl?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}