My cat prefers the wet cat food with gravy, not the pate. Once he is fed he licks all the gravy up first, then grazes on the chunks for a few hours. 🙂

For a while we tried feeding our older cat a mix of regular adult cat food and the special weight control food for older cats. She would literally eat around the special weight food and only eat the regular kibble pieces. Her weight is (more or less) where it should be now so we’re back to the regular food only and I think everyone is a lot happier and certainly less meowy!

Our dog, Madi, will only eat if she has water right next to her food bowl! Gotta stay hydrated.

My cats have three bowls (one for each of them), but they only ever eat out of one. They take turns eating, out of one bowl. I’ll just end up dumping the food from one of the other bowls into the favorite bowl when it gets empty. My cats are weird!

I feed the dogs every morning. Some days, Emma will not eat all day long. Then, as soon as I decide it’s time for bed and turn out the lights, she runs into the dark kitchen and starts chowing. I end up hanging out, just waiting to go to bed, until she’s had enough to eat. Crazy dog!

Similar to James, my old dog used to bring mouthfuls of food up from the basement and eat them on the family room carpet. I guess she wanted to be closer to us? My hubby and I are hoping to adopt a dog this coming week – what a perfect giveaway!

Dolly (my basset hound) doesn’t have time to have weird eating habits. The food bowl is empty in 30 seconds!

Somehow, over the past three years, Phoebe our Great Dane has become so spoiled that she won’t eat her dry food without something “special” on it. Usually it’s a sprinkle of grated Parmesan cheese (now dubbed “Phoebe cheese” in our house, even if we use it on people food). Sometimes I use a little peanut butter, or rice, yogurt, or a spoonful of wet dog food. If I give her dry food she’ll just look at the bowl, look at me, and walk away. I’m sure if she got hungry enough she’d eat it but I can’t resist a sad dog face.

My cat “drinks” off her foot! Instead of putting her face to the water bowl, she dips her foot in and then licks it off…then walks all over the hardwoods. I’d get mad if it wasn’t so cute! 🙂

We just adopted a dog a couple of months ago, Applesauce (the foster home named her… we just call her Sauce or Saucey). She must have picked up her table manners from the foster home or the 9 other pups she lived with because we were pleasantly surprised by how polite she is! When I am preparing her bowl she runs into her crate, tail wagging, and when I turn around to give it to her she sits and waits until the bowl has hit the floor- then she pigs out!
When we give her any type of treat, whether earned by a trick or just because she deserves it, she will very carefully and slowly take it out of our hand and either run away with it or put it on the floor.
Our favorite is when she eats baby carrots– she eats them like corn on the cob– small bites in little rows!! 🙂
Love her!

My dog will never approach her bowl straight on. After we put the food in the bowl, even if she is standing one foot away, she will walk in a circle around the perimeter of the room, squeeze between the table and the wall, and finally approach the bowl. It’s like she wants to prove that she is eating on her own terms. She’s the same way about getting in the kennel. It cracks me up every time.

When we first got our mini schnauzer, she wouldn’t eat out of the bowl AT ALL. The sound of the food clinking in the bowl scared her. We had to put the whole mound on the floor and I, like you, am a clean floor fanatic. Now, 7 years later, she eats out of the bowl but still scoops up a mouthful, drops half on the floor, eats it piece by piece, and then goes back for another scoop. I guess she thinks the bowl will gobble her up. Silly pups!

I have an english mastiff and when we give her a treat, she turns and sprints up the stairs to the landing. I guess she thinks we are going to change our mind and take it back!

I have no funny pet eating habits to report, because I’m hopefully getting my first pet (a rescued mutt) this week! I have a home visit with the dog tomorrow, and should hopefully pick him up for good a few days later. That said, the PetsMart card would be awesome since I have all sorts of new doggy supplies to pick up 🙂

We have three cats and two dogs. Our cats have started meowing at 4:30 a.m. for their food. So annoying. Two of our cats are overweight so we’ve had to make some food adjustments. Our male cat tries to eat everyone’s food. Our dogs eat like they are starving. We bought them the dishes that look like a top hat so they eat slower. It sort of works. Our male dog (a Standard Poodle we adopted when he was three) will eat anything if you leave it out and aren’t watching. Lately he’s decided that flipping the trash can over is a good idea. One day, we heard a loud thump and a lot of noise and he had knocked the lid off the trash can and got the bag out that had freshly scooped cat *stuff* in it. It was all over the floor! HUGE mess and I’m pregnant and my poor husband had to clean it all up!

My kitten likes to eat cucumbers. She will jump on the counter and put the entire cucumber in her little mouth and then jump down and run away when I am not looking. The entire, long, uncut cucumber.

She also licks her bowl throughout the day when there is no food in it. hah.

Our dog Hank gets the first half of his breakfast from a food dispensing stick toy (that he loves). The cutest thing though, it that every time the freezer is opened, he sits right under the door and patiently awaits an ice cube. Every. Single. Time. 🙂 If only my favorite “treat” was calorie, fat and carb free! 😉

I have a 110lb. rottweiler puppy, yes puppy, named Bo. Despite his size he still thinks he’s Maggie or James’ size. He has a very sensitive stomach, so I have to prepare his food for him for every meal. When he knows I am preparing his food he stands beside me and jumps straight up and down like a BIG jumping bean. It is hysterical how excited he gets for his food! When we used to just feed him dry kibble he would do that same thing as James and take it out of his bowl, on to the carpet, inspect and then eat. You have to love the fur babies!!

Our poodle takes each piece of dog food (one at a time) to the carpet to eat. I wish he would stay on the hardwood floor where it’s easier to clean up.

Your breakfast concoction looks amazing!
My Hossie always drops his treats when he gets them, but usually just eats treats from his kong.
By the way, your pet family is way cooler than ours.

My dog likes to eat when she has company so she waits uintil we sit down or are at least in the room with her. Who can blame her, really? Most of us like company, do we not? 🙂

I have an American Cocker Spaniel I rescued after my first month moving to Korea (more than 5 years ago!). She snorts like a pig when she’s waiting for a treat. It’s so funny. Like many Cockers, she has a lot of ear infection issues and while I’ve always fed her high-quality dog food, the vet and I have come to suspect food allergies are the culprit for her infections and after 6 weeks on VERY expensive hypoallergenic food, she’s now on Canidae Pure Sea (grain free, corn free, salmon-based– we think she has a chicken allergy).
I can’t wait to move back to the US in a few months because high-quality food is 3-4x more expensive here in Korea because of import taxes.

My dog does the same thing with taking a piece of food out of her bowl, brings it from the laundry room where her bowl is straight onto the family room RUG, drops it in all its slobbery glory onto MY RUG and then trots back in to the laundry room to either repeat the process another few times or just decide to eat. And that’s why we have a cheap Home Depot area rug in that room. Weirdo.

My dogs eat the Nature’s Domain food from Costco and they seem to love it. But we’re contemplating switching our Newfoundland puppy to a more raw diet (a big maybe) because he’s having some skin problems that are common in the breed and might be helped by switching his diet.

Both of my dogs are total food grazers. I set their food down at 6 am and if it was up to them they’d just eat a little at a time all the way til noon. Too bad I leave for work at 7 so they only get an hour for breakfast!

I didn’t realize I had inadvertently trained my puggle (pug + beagle). One day I was in the kitchen and dropped something and said “oops!” and I noticed Phoebe jump up with excitement in her eyes and sprint to me.

After that I noticed my natural reaction was the “oops” and I did it all the time and Phoebe knew my “oops” meant the eating was good! Now we use oops as a command when we want her to clean something we dropped while cooking

My cat eats a mixture of regular Dry kibble, and a larger special dental kibble for his teeth because he’s prone to tooth disease that has caused him to lose a few teeth. He will eat around the specialty kibble for what he considers the good stuff. Which is probably the junkfood version of cat food. 🙂

He also gets one small can of wet food a day that he normally gets fed when I get home from work. He will run to the door when he hears the garage open, and will follow me around and meow until I feed him. If it’s the weekend and we’re home, he will start meowing at 3:30 trying to get me to feed him the wet food.

I’d say as long as Pippa drinks a little water each day she should be find with dry food. Wet food is more expensive! My cat is really good about drinking, but I know other cats that rarely drink water so wet food might be a better option in that case.

My cat will eat food out of the middle of the bowl, not the edges, then believe she’s done and insist she is still hungry. drives me crazy! haha

Our pug, Walter, will lose it over treats but doesn’t get all that excited about food – never has, no matter the brand. He’ll eat, but totally on his own schedule. And before he eats, he hangs his head into the bowl for a while – not sure if he’s staring or smelling. Then he paces back and forth in front of the bowl for a few minutes before he eats. Strange! Now, add some cheese, meat broth, or a little wet food to his normal food – and he’ll lick the bowl clean.

We just adopted a kitten on Sunday, so we don’t know any quirks yet. However, he does love dried tuna flakes as a treat. My husband is trying to train him. 😉

Our Boston Terrier, Stella, eats in about 45 seconds flat. It’s hilarious, but sometimes I get worried she is going to choke!! She is such a foodie, and will do anything for a bite to eat. When she is done she will search all around the bowl and under neath to make sure she didn’t miss any of her precious morsels. When she is at my parent’s house, she also will sit and wait while their dog eats and will clean everything up! My boyfriend and I joke that we should have just named her Hoover!

My cat, Toby, is the bigger and more aggressive of my 2 cats and he eats all of his food at once, and then tries to eat the smaller cat’s food, too. Even still, about an hour later, he’ll be meowing and nibbling on your toes to ask for more. He even knows when someone is making lunch in the kitchen and tries to get us to give him a little taste haha

My dog has very specific eating rules or he literally will go days without eating if they are not followed…

1) When he is hungry, he will paw at his water dish or any other container on the floor, (for example a novelty margarita glass from Las Vegas ;)) You cannot offer him food unless he asks or he will go on strike. (unless it’s human food, of course!)
2) Must be out of a flat bottomed, Tupperware bowl. Nothing else.
3) Same as James, has a little walkabout while eating.
4) We must be silent while he is eating, no eye contact allowed or he stops.
5) He will only eat his dry food if it’s mixed with some wet as well.
6) He almost always leaves 3 of the darker pieces of his food behind. Never the light ones but sometimes more or less of the dark ones – ha!

I’m sort of glad to see he is not the only weird-o dog eater out there! How would these dogs have survived in the wild ? ha!

My pup will take a few pieces out of her bowl and then take them to the living room to drop them on the floor and then eat them. It’s quite the process.

We also used to tease her and say that the cats were going to eat her food. We thought we were just being funny, but she could totally understand us! Now anytime the cats go over to their food (in the same spot as the pups) our dog will go over and “guard” her food from them. The cats have zero interest in her food 🙂

We had to head home for a family funeral last minute and left our cat home alone for 5 days {someone stopped in 3 times to feed/water/try to love him} and he was seriously missing human contact. We got back on Monday…he has been a needy chunk of velcro since!

And since we are back I’m pretty convinced he has figured out how to tell time – exactly 30 minutes before my alarm goes off he will sit on my pillow and meow at me. My alarm does not go off at the same time every day but for the last 4 days he has timed it perfectly. He is making me crazy!

My pup is similar to James – Philly will take a mouthful of food, run to her ‘spot’ in the other room and eat there before coming back for more. She’ll also only eat when the people who are home (me, my husband, or both of us together) are in the kitchen where her food is with her. Strange!

We’ve taught my dog, Daisy, a bunch of tricks – sit, back up, down, roll over, etc. – and we usually reward her with a treat when she does a trick on command. She LOVES to eat, and, if she sees that we have a piece of food, she gets so excited and starts doing all of her tricks over and over again! She’s a funny one.

Did not know that cats could go blind like that! Crazy! How much money do you spend on groceries per week for your family plus animals? Lots of hungry mouths to feed!

My Dogue de Bordeaux is massive and yet my 4 pound mini pin eats first while the Dogue waits. She is only allowed to eat when the mini pin is finished. The mini pin is definitely the “top dog”

My aussie will pick out the carrots and put them to the side of her bowl with her kibbles and bits! It’s so strange!

One of the dogs we had when I was a kid was gotten from a man who had to give her up. She would only eat in an old saucepan that was missing it’s handle 😉

Olive has habits similar to James. She crunches one kibble at a time – which is a bit annoying when you are in a hurry!

Miss kitty is pretty picky about her food – or at least she was when we first adopted her and we haven’t tried to change since. We tried getting her to eat the fancier organic foods, I think we tried two or three different kinds, but she just wouldn’t eat it! So she eats the cheaper conventional brand, with some prescription dental crunchies mixed in.

I don’t think my dog actually chews his food. He inhales his food in a matter of minutes.

Animals are so funny! April doesn’t have too many funny eating habits. She used to not eat very much, as in go half a day or a day without eating. We’ve now switched her food to a better (not made of corn) food, and she’ll eat more regularly. We also include some pumpkin in her food to solidify her poop and help express her glands. She loves the pumpkin!

My cat hoards my pony-tail holders (fubbies?) in her food dish. Every day I take them out of her dish, wash them, and no matter where I put them she always manages to find a few and put them back in with her food.

My dog loves random scraps we give her- especially broccoli stems!

I have two cats, who are brothers who pace around at my door until I wake up and then proceed to purr and nuzzle my ankles until I feed them to the point that I can’t walk around freely until I feed them. It’s a good method because it’s sickeningly cute but also very effective for them. So I can never get annoyed at the constant tripping I do for the first 10 minutes of my day.

My cat is loves people food! I try to avoid giving it to him, but he is soooo sneaky! He has been known to go after a plate I leave a plate on the table and steal entire dinner rolls off of it. He’s so cute though, it is hard to be mad at him!!

I would love to give this card to my Mom as a belated birthday gift. She has two black labs at home, that are also my little babies. Oldest is Simon, who loves to eat toilet paper and Miles, loves to eat shoes. I’m positive if we gave them endless amounts of food, they’d consume it all in a minute. 🙂 Love the pet posts!

our puppy, Rica (adopted from Puerto Rico) also takes her kibble out of the dish and brings it to another spot. She usually just eats a few pieces, leaves the rest, and then goes back for more. I’m always stepping on the stuff, it drives me nuts!

but the BEST part — or maybe the worst part to some? — is, after she’s done, she finds us and burps SO loudly. Like, realllly loudly. Very funny coming from a little terrier. She cracks me up 🙂

My dog after each meal rolls on the floor in circle s for like 5 minutes!

Our yellow lab ALWAYS goes over to our chocolate lab’s dish after she’s done eating to make sure she got every last little piece and licks it clean, then goes back to his and licks it clean. He’s so OCD about it! It cracks me up.

My husky Kia is crazy picky! We used to buy her this kibble that 5 or 6 different shapes and colors and she would pick out the ones she liked and leave the rest in the bowl! We ended up switching brands. Now all of a sudden she started dumping her bowl out and eating her food from the floor, every time! It’s so weird!

I don’t have a pet right now, but am excited to visit my parents’ dogs during Christmas! Our family’s first dog, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, was quite the protector. When driving in the car during a rainstorm she would leap from ANY location in the car to get on the dashboard to bark at and chase the windshield wipers as they went back and forth. After “her protection” almost caused an accident we made sure to hold her down while driving in the car during rainstorms.

My dog scarfs down his food in about 10 seconds flat. Afterward he runs to the couch, jumps up, lets out a big belch, and takes nap #1 of the day.

Our big, sweet Berner Toby will eat almost all of his food from the bowl in our kitchen area. When there is maybe half a cup left, he will pick up his bowl in his mouth and carry it to the living room about 5 feet away. He lays down (bowl still in mouth) and then finishes his last bites of food laying with his dish between his big paws. Now, it happens like this most of the time. About 10% of the time he drops the bowl and scatters kibble everywhere – a bit less adorably quirky. We have no idea why he does this, but we love him and all of his unusual habits.

I have a rabbit and the carrot-obsessed stereotype is absolutely true. He goes crazy for them. He has to eat in the same spot every morning & evening so when I give him a carrot by the fridge he picks it up at the narrow end with his teeth and runs, hitting it on every wall and piece of furniture between me and the fireplace. It’s ridiculously cute. And so spastic.

These are all so funny! Our dog takes a mouthful of kibble and does a loop around or kitchen island while he chews. It takes forever!

our puppy wags his tail the entire time he’s eating which i think is adorable. other than that he’s pretty normal when he eats.

It’s funny that wet food is said to be good for the kidneys and dry is good for the teeth. If your dog gets bad gum disease, it can lead to kidney failure. So by that logic, dry food is also good for the kidneys!

We’ve started giving our dog dried sweet potato treats. She LOVES them and they’re so much better than regular dog treats since it’s whole food. She also gets freeze dried chicken liver treats, apple slices, and canned pumpkin (if she needs help with her poos).

I have to feed my female dog first because if I drop food in the male’s bowl, she goes right for it even though it’s not hers! But he will wait patiently…I just tell him “Ladies, first!” 🙂 He eats twice as much as she does (per their size) and yet they finish at the same time, ha ha.

Our dog, Santana, eats her food furiously…it disappears so quickly! After she’s done then she will drink some water, then lick her empty food bowl…then repeat! Like she is trying to get every tiny last morsel of food dust that could be left in there. For the next half an hour or so, she’ll continue to wander back to her bowl every so often to check for more food and give it another lick.

She used to eat out of a “treat dispensing ball” that we put her dry food in because when she was a puppy she’d eat so quickly that she’d make herself sick. But she would be so eager about the food that she would push the ball so fast around the house that she’d leave the food laying everywhere and then come back to it after the ball was empty. Not the best for keeping clean floors!

My dog (also Maggie!) has to go through her whole routine before she eats- sit, shake, down-all-the-way, then, I pat her on the head and say “good girl,” and she proceeds to INHALE her food. She’s also just about the worst beggar ever!
Also, aren’t mornings crazy when you have so many to feed? I’m always the last to eat in our house. My husband sleeps through everything, and I always wake him up with breakfast… You’re lucky your husband will make breakfast sometimes!

When we sit down to eat dinner, our cat, Tinker will come to the table. He will stand on his back legs with his front paws on the table and watch us eat. It is hilarious. If we are eating chicken or steak, we will put a little piece on a napkin. He will get down to eat it and then jump back to the standing position! 🙂

My dog will eat his entire meal in 30 seconds!

Our dog Chester does the same thing as James! …except he does it when he’s not hungry, like a picky toddler (and he’s about 1 and a half years old, so it fits perfectly, which I find hilarious). He gets raw food patties for dinner, and when he doesn’t feel like eating he’ll pick up a bite from his bowl and deposit it somewhere on the floor. Usually it’s right around the bowl, but once he brought it all the way to the living room before leaving it for someone else to pick up!

We have two kittens (Twiggy and Ginger) and already they have trained us. I feed the girls in the morning (husband at night) which Ginger has learned. I also use my phone as my alarm and after it goes off once Ginger lays on it so I wont hit the snooze bar and delay breakfast. Ginger has also gotten into the habit of scratching around her bowl when she is done like a wild cat covering its kill so that others don’t come eat it, she was a feral baby before the shelter after all. Twiggy on the other hand sounds like a dog at the water bowl *slurp gulp slurp gulp* – lots of noise for a little tongue.

My dog, Reddick, will not eat during the day. He eats in the middle of the night. We usually hear a good crunching around 2am. He also loves water WAY more than he loves food. He could drink ten bowls a day if he wanted to.

My yorkie, similarly, takes a mouthful of dog food and repeatedly brings it to wherever we are in the house, spits it out and eats pieces right next to us! Random!

One of my cats drags his paw through the water bowl, and then licks the water off his paw. He will occasionally drink straight from the bowl, but 90% of the time it’s from his paw. He makes such a mess!

Well, this isn’t really a funny eating habit, but… one of our cats (we have 2) will only throw up in her food bowl. So sometimes we randomly find a foodbowl with food on the bottom, barf on top. I guess the plus is that for her, we won’t run into a random pile of kitty throw up somewhere in the house… but it’s gross to clean out the bowl 🙂

My cats are sisters from the same litter. The shy one will gobble down her food and will go back for seconds and thirds and fourths…It’s like she’s starving all the time! Also, they both dip their paws in the water bowl before drinking…always. Weird!

I feed my kitty Marco both wet and dry food. He’ll eat the wet food up quickly and then pick at the dry food the rest of the day. The few minutes it takes him to eat the wet food is the only small window of time I have to do things in the kitchen without a little kitten constantly under my feet, so I choose when to feed him very strategically 🙂

Well lets see, Makeedz will “roo roo rooooooo” when he wants to get your attention or is mad at you. He is a hound mix. Bentley does backflips for her kong (she is a pitbull) and will wiggle around on her back and growl (playfully). Marley, well she is just special. She will run and look for her toy before u even throw it.

we have 2 dogs, loki and felina. we add chicken or ground beef to their dry food. felina will always finish her food and then wait for loki to eat the good stuff off the top (he never finishes his food). at which point felina will lie down a foot or two away from his bowl and “slyly” crawl her way on top of his bowl, which is when the food just “disapears.” hah.

For a while Lando wouldn’t eat from his bowl or if it was dumped on his mat. I had to hand feed him at times. Luckily, he’s grown out of that peculiarity and dives into his bowl as soon as I put it down.

My cats, well, anytime I try pouring the food into their bowls, Gambit puts his head there so he gets “showered” with kibble. I switch tactics sometimes and pour the food where they can’t reach then put it down for them and Gambit rams his head into my hand and spills half the bowl over the bathroom floor. Chloe also grabs a mouthful of food and moves away from the bowl to eat elsewhere, before coming back for more. I find kibble all over, if Lando hasn’t gotten to it first.

And the cats prefer the dogs water bowl than their own. Strange little things.

My poor, sweet rescue dog will not eat until I coax him to his bowl. He won’t keep eating unless I stay in the room with him. I’ve trained him not to go into the room where we feed the cats, and he’s been very obedient, until we tried some new wet cat food yesterday. A few minutes after kitty breakfast time, I caught him trotting out of the room and licking his chops. Naughty dog. He also goes crazy for treats: when I call him to me for a treat he goes through all his tricks at once (sit, shake, down, etc.) before I even tell him what I want him to do.

Cat feeding is mostly uneventful, but one of our two cats is obsessed with dairy, and will go to extremes to get a taste of milk or cheese. She’ll jump on the counter in the morning in hopes of sneaking some milk from my husband’s cereal bowl, and she stands under my feet when I make anything with cheese, hoping to catch some pieces that fall. I also caught her once with her back paws on the couch and front paws on the coffee table, stretched as far as her body could go, shoving her little face in a glass to try to get to the few drops of milk at the bottom.

My roommate and I both have large dogs and we buy them HUGE bones to chew on upstairs to keep them busy during the day. When I come home for lunch or after work my dog, Harrison, gets really excited but doesn’t want to abandon his bone. So he spends about 5 minutes trying to figure out how the drag his bone downstairs with him so he can greet me AND have his bone with him. 🙂

My cat, Molly, will eat her wet food normally. But when it comes to her dry food, she’ll scoop a little out of the bowl with her paw and then flick it at her face. She’ll catch as many pieces as she can in her mouth. Luckily, if she drops/misses any pieces, she’ll eat them off the floor, but she almost never eats them from the bowl. It’s a riot to watch, she’s got some pretty great aim and catching skills.

my dog will have a bowl full of food and will be completely disinterested in eating it until either someone in my family, or I go into the kitchen to get something to eat. while we’re sitting at the kitchen table eating, he’ll go over to his bowl and eat. i guess he doesn’t like dining alone!

When we first got our dog she ate her food like James. Then we started dogsitting for my parents (they dogsit for us too) and their dog eats like Maggie. So, what does our dog do? Now she eats BOTH ways depending on her day. Seriously…I would love to know what animals are thinking! Animals are truly the best 🙂

Thanks for the giveaway and for what you do. You are truly amazing and a blessing to many!! 🙂

I recommend Trader Joe’s brand wet cat food. Our cats struggled with all sorts of health problems on the prescription wet food they were on, and when we switched them to the Trader Joe’s brand they are much happier and healthier! It was very surprising, but I assume it’s similar to realizing that you are lactose or gluten intolerant – some foods are just better for our bodies. And, it is pretty cheap!

I have two cats. The one (Ella) takes a mouthful of food and drops it on the placemat next to her bowl. She then eats it off of the placemat piece-by-piece. The other cat (Lucy) is on a diet so she can trim down and maintain good health. As soon as she gets her “daily rations” each morning, she scarfs down every last bite of food. Animals are too funny.

Oh my goodness gracious! I have two cats and one dog, and the dog has been experiencing some killer allergies. I have been mixing up his food quite a bit to try to find grain free and alternative meat for him. Needless to say, he has shown his dislike for some of foods by placing the darker bits of kibbles outside his bowl. I will come in the room to find little dark bits dotting the floor, and the rest of the bowl is empty. I figured out that the darker bits were beets and sweet potatoes, and this sort of made me giggle. Picky eater!! My cats are pretty easy going, but have shown their dislike for certain food brands as well. Also, my one cat HAS to have wet food every morning. It’s a bad habit we started and I wish I’d have done it mid-day or in the evening instead! No more sleeping in for me – ever!! I am very fortunate that they all regulate their own food intake though – no scarfing food down. This makes it easy for me as I can fill their bowls and know none of them will overeat or make themselves sick on it. I find comfort in knowing I can fill their bowls with food while I’m gone and they won’t starve to death if something happens to me. (Hey, something ya gotta think about!) I’d love to win the gift card … I’m a PetsMart junky!

I have three cats. The male, Cadbury, will only eat fresh food. It doesn’t matter how much is in the bowls, if he didn’t see you put it in there, he won’t eat it and will meow every time you go in the kitchen. Marshmallow only drinks water from her hand (after dipping it in the bowl) which means there’s always water on the floor. Reeses will eat anything, but scarfs it down so fast she later pukes it up on the carpet. Or the couch. No worries though, she eats it again so I don’t have to clean it up!

We literally have to sometimes “cheer” our dog Maddi on as she eats. She gets distracted easily so sometimes (if we’re not focusing on her), she’ll think that whatever we’re doing is more exciting than her food so she’ll forget that she’s supposed to be eating! She’s such a quirky dog, but we love her tons anyway!!

My Norwich terrier drops her food on the floor first and then eats it too! She also checks the other dogs bowl to make sure he finished his!

My dog eats just like James. Takes some food out of the bowl and eats it on the carpet!

My cats Zoe and Lola LOVE having a special treat: canned food. They cry for it every night (but only get it every other night) and will even find the box and bat the can out of the box and push it over to one of us to open! We had to start putting the box on top of the fridge.

My Golden/Lab mix eats his food pretty normally, but it’s when I give him little bites of my fruit that cracks me up. Bananas are the best – squishy, and you can’t tell if he’s enjoying it or not but he really wants to finish it.

Our dogs fight over who licks their dishes clean…glad to know they’re not alone! Anytime we give our dog Harleigh a treat(training bite, bone, a veggie piece) she immediately goes to the couch to eat it! It makes a mess always…crazy dog!

Our fatty fat fat cat is programmed to think anytime we come home he gets fed. So if I come home from work – whether it’s 4pm or 6pm – he follows me around with beggar eyes. When the BF gets home an hour or so later, Fatty does the same thing aaand on the off chance we end up heading back out, he is already expecting dinner #3!
If we are in the kitchen, NOT feeding him wet cat food, he will take to his kibble bowl (that is always full, he is never without food mind you) and crunch away quietly while taking breaks to look up at us with that, “see what you’re making me do???” face. Pathetic 16lb cat.

My dog takes her kibble out of the bowl and spreads them on the floor before she decides which shapes to eat. Makes cleaning up more fun for me! lol

Ernie the cat is quite geriatric, nearly 19 now. He doesn’t have any food quirks but he does have one with his water. Every morning he gets both wet and dry food and a bowl of water. They are lined up in his eating area. One day my daughter had a glass of water on the coffee table in the living room and Ernie started to drink out of it so she freaked and then got him his own mini bowl of water and put it on the floor under that table. Ever since he will not drink out of his regular bowl of water, only from the mini bowl under the coffee table. Strange. But he is our good kitty and he is old so we do it for him.

My dog Buddy eats his food so fast that he can barely breathe, then about a minute after he’s finished he lets out the biggest burp of all time. I’ve gotten used to it, but whenever anyone else is in the house they cannot believe the noise that comes out of such a small animal.

My dogs sound very similar to yours! We have two beagles. My older beagle, Bailey, could care less about eating (who has ever heard of a beagle who doesn’t eat?!) and she actually went back to bed four out of the five mornings this week and skipped breakfast (they get 2 meals a day). I guess she liked Thanksgiving break and sleeping in… Our younger beagle, Emma, on the other hand won’t miss a meal and is skinny as a rail. Not only does she take the food out of her bowl onto the carpet… but she “hoovers” a mouthful and takes it from the kitchen to the living room carpet, spits it out and eats it. Gross. Then Bailey licks both bowls, whether she has eaten or not. Girl could live on crumbs.

That is the longest explanation about dog eating habits ever. My bad.

My Chihuahua, Juan Carlos, also likes to take his kibble out of his bowl one-by-one and eat them on the rug nearby. When he is done, he takes a sip of water, licks his food bowl, sips water, licks his food bowl, sips his water and then takes one last lick of his food bowl. Just to make sure he got every last crumb and taste out of that bowl before he lays down for the rest of the day. Ahhh, the life of a tiny 4 pound dog.

My pup loves going to DQ with us. She gets their puppy cone and gobbles it right up. It’s a special treat that she loves. She eats grain-free though, since she does have some allergies.

My one bulldog will lick both his and our other bulldogs bowl for a good 15 minutes after we feed them. I guess he’s trying to get every last morsel but doubt there is any food residue after the first 30 seconds. Anyone home at the time we feed them would think he’s starving by the way licks the bowls spotless.

We have three dogs. One is never really interested in eating and does her own thing. The second dog likes to graze on hers throughout the day (she takes it kibble by kibble into the living room like James) and spends the rest of the day guarding it. When the cat or another dog goes towards the kitchen, she sprints after them to make sure they aren’t eating her food. The third dog is a food hound and wants to eat all the other dogs’ food. So he and the second dog made a deal that he can eat the first dog’s food…then he strategically waits until the second dog is no longer paying attention or is distracted by something else and hurriedly eats the second dogs food. He got really FAT before we realized he was eating 6 meals a day instead of two!!

Our dog like to scoop his food out of his bowl with his paw, spraying it all over the kitchen, and then pounce down each piece individually and eat it. Talk about messy floors! Our cat’s weirdest habit is eating the dog’s food…I’m not sure why she does it, but it helps get to the pieces he can’t reach!

My pup is such a picky eater!! Sometimes we throw in some dry food with her training treats so we aren’t feeding her a ridiculous amount of treats and she will spit it out. But not just like a regular dog, she somehow spits it up and to the side so it makes this huge arch as she does it. It’s hilarious!

My dog is the messiest water drinker. In fact, when he had a larger water bowl, he would put his paws in it. Now he just makes a big mess and dribbles water everywhere.

Our dog Belle, blond dauchshund, will carry her food from the tile to the carpet to eat it. She is too funny! She tries to snach up any food my toddler has down at her level. She is a piglet too!

My dog does the same thing with his food. He takes three pieces of kibble out of the bowl, takes it to the room we are in, drops them, and eats them one by one. He always likes eating near us. He is so weird.

Sam has this funny thing where he (dog) will start drooling…and drooling… and drooling until he forms 4+ inch long drool lines. We call him Saber Tooth Samuel. He is my sweet baby black lab who is also sick right now because he got some Giardia from mucky water while out camping 🙁

We have two dogs, Coaly and Hailey. Hailey gets less food and always devours hers first. Coaly stands around and waits for Hailey to finish eating, and then she waits even longer while Hailey is salivating over her food – she’s such a tease! Finally she will dig in and slowly eat her food while Hailey stares. As soon as Coaly is done, Hailey dives in and licks the bowl the entire way across the dining room. Gotta love our pups, right?! 🙂

I feed my dog simon (a terrier, dauschund, chihuahua mix) and he will only eat if I stand in the kitchen with him. If I leave the food out and go to work, he won’t eat until I get home. I also have to watch because the cat likes the dog food and we have the cat food in another room because Simon eats the cat food.

my dog does a weird eating thing too! her bowl is in the kitchen, but she takes a little mouthful of her food then walks it over to the front door before eating it. repeat.

My dog (maybe all dogs) loves cheese. If we so much as open that drawer of the refrigerator she comes running.

one of my dogs hides his food bowl under his bed when my other dog is around. The other dog rubs her face on the carpet immediately after eating haha.

My cat is actually extremely picky. He loves his dry food, could really care less about wet food unless its a brand new can ( I think he likes it room temperature) and he will only eat a teaspoon amount. He will also only drink water from the Bathroom sink…… He REFUSES water from anywhere else, so that is where is bowl stays: next to my toothbrush……

I have an electric cat feeder and my cats proceed to put their paws up the chute to get more food all day long!! They are very chubby lol

Our siamese kitty went ballistic over turkey at thanksgiving and came to see if it was her turn to eat whenever we’d open the refrigerator to get anything (leftovers or other things). She also sits right behind our chairs while we eat dinner, and even sat down on a dining chair and has poked her little cat head up over the table to watch us eat.

My dog takes his wet food out of his bowl carries it into the living room drops it on the floor and eats it there – I die a little each time

Between the dog and two cats meal time can become a feeding frenzy at my house. The cats want the dog food. The dog wants the cat food. I once found my 80 lb Rottweiler mix standing on top of the kitchen table chowing down on a bowl of fancy feast while the cat was on the floor nibbling away at the dog food. Crazy animals! 🙂

My dog will only eat if the food bowl is on the left and water on the right. If switched then he just looks at it till I change them. No barking