Pretend this is a doodle:

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Sedona does not hover around the dinner table - she gets a "good girl" treat if she stays away from the table.  However, if our toddler granddaughter is around, Sedona's like this dog:

Does your doodle watch you like a hawk???

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Our Springer lays under the table when we eat - never begging and never getting fed. He just wants to be close to us.  The doodles lay around somewhere nearby.  When our granddaughter is over though, all bets are off.  The dogs cluster around the highchair knowing that she will feed them.  We send them away and they go, but they must slowly crawl on their bellies inching closer and closer because suddenly I look down, and there they are again....

[Lynda Kamrath]

We always had a dog sneak under the window by the table when my son was growing up and food would disappear from his plate (especially broccoli).  Now my mom eats with us sometimes and she always has a dog by her side (in case something falls from the table which it does with regularity).  The dog considers it his job to clean up the floor and the chair also.  I guess an older adult is about as good as a kid (intentional or not).

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Yesterday, I sat with my mother at her breakfast table in her memory-care facility.  The resident dog, Happy, was nearby - because Joy (one of the ladies at the table) kept slipping her French toast.  Each time, either the caregiver or I would remind Joy that Happy shouldn't have people food.  She'd ask why and we'd tell her that people food wasn't healthy for Happy, to which she'd reply, "Oh, of course not."  Minutes later, she'd slip some more food to Happy and we'd have to re-explain, and re-re-explain, and re-re-re-explain why.  Each time, Joy would respond, "Oh, of course not" as if was the first time she'd said it!!!

[Carol and Banjo]

LOL....I can just picture this.  It's kind of sweet.   Love that there is a "Resident Dog"...named Happy!