Do your dogs switch?

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

When I give them bones, antlers, or anything to chew on that lasts for a long time they will chew theirs for approximately 15 minutes and then one of them will go stare at the other until they look up and the will literally switch! It's so weird. Sometimes it back fires for Zoe because it will be edible like a bully stick or teeth chews and there will be nothing to "switch". Do any of your dogs do this?

[Jersey, Jasmine, Jypsy and Diane]

My doodles do it too, but my German shorthaired pointers used to do it on a regular basis. There were three of them and after about 15 minutes, they would rotate to another's bone. Too funny. Sometimes they would share a bone, one would hold it, while the other one chewed. Here's Holly on rt, holding it for Casey of left.

 

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

Oh that's so funny! Has this ever turned into a fight? That's my main concern. Also the possibility that they might do it to another dog someday that doesn't know about this switch game.

[Jersey, Jasmine, Jypsy and Diane]

I never had a problem with the GSP's they were half sisters. My doods did it with my daughter's lab, but I don't know about a strange dog they don't know.

 

[Lynda Kamrath]

One of my dogs eats inside and the other outside.  They have always done this and it is on two sides of a sliding glass door.  Frequently one of them wants to change sides and they each run to the other's bowl to see if there is anything interesting there.  They also watch what is put into the other's bowl to make sure they get the same thing.  If they are chewing on a bone or antler, they frequently switch, I think just to make sure the other dog doesn't have something different.

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

Haha that makes sense! Zoe likes to look when I pour food into their bowls too!