will your dog hate you if you ignore the begging?

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Eric C

i tried to put my golden on diet but found very hard to resist his begging eyes and posture! LOL. it is so cute and really hard to turn him down...
it is so hard not to give him snacks when we were eating! we don't give him much, but regardless, he's too fat!
my question is: will your dog hate you if you ignore his/her plead for food? how do you do it? cut off your dog's begging? and not effecting your relationship?

Answer
Begging is a symptom...not the problem.
Dogs do what works. If your dog is begging, then begging works in your home, apparently.

Find a large jar, and put in it the dog's daily allowance of kibble. Anyone wants to give him something, it needs to come from there. the rules are, it only gets filled once a day, no cheating. If it's gone, it's gone.

He can have some cooked green beans - not canned, as they have too much salt. But green beans don't really add any calories, and dogs like them. Add water to his kibble - it will seem like more.

keep in mind that by teaching him to beg (and yes, you did), you are causing him to suffer more. All the time he sits waiting for a handout, his stomach is producing more acid in anticipation of having something to digest. Ultimately, you will end up with a dog that tosses up bile every time his stomach is empty for too long - another problem to treat.

The best thing you can do for him is to crate him during your mealtimes, and feed him two decent meals of lite kibble per day, soaked in water and placed on a cookie sheet so it takes him a while to eat it. You can feed him while you're eating dinner os you are not tempted to feed him other things, and so he is not present at the table.

This is for his health, and his happiness - and his life depends upon it. It's up to you.

For those with cats AND dogs, a few questions?

Kia Koala

First, how do you work meals? Do you feed them supervised, or do you feed the cats on a higher platform the dogs can't get to? Second, where do you keep your litter box and how do you keep the dog out of it? Third, how do you keep your dog from eating the cat toys? I imagine its a problem, considering how tiny they are. Thanks for any input!!
Thank you guys for all the replies so far!! Greatly appreciate all the ideas :)

Answer
My cats have their own room, the food is on a table. The litter pans are behind a little wall of plastic crates. The cats can go over them easily, but the dog's can't.

I keep my litter pans inside of huge plastic storage bins with the lids removed. I cut cat-sized entrance holes in one end. It was easy to keep my older and much larger dog out of them - he can't reach the pans through the holes, but my new pups are small. I was shocked the day that I saw my pup Oliver actually USING the litter pan - he's a little smartie:)

In order to keep the smaller dogs out, I had to use a partition. It's not the best solution, but it keeps the dogs from snacking on kitty litter encrusted cat feces, which is not only disgusting, but probably toxic.

Cat toys? Cat toys are a hassle. It's not just the dogs, but the fact that they wind up under the appliances.

I have birds, too, and they have lots of small foot toys, which they throw on the ground for fun, even intentionally dropping them on the other animals. I spend lots of time saying "leave it", and "drop it" and "that is NOT yours". At best, I've only reduced the inter-species toy thieving by providing lots of toys for everyone.

It's a quandry:)

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