I'm lucky my last 3 dogs/Labs
(other than my foster dogs, 9 in 12 years)
were trained not to touch food, put on the kitchen counter
or dinning room table or the coffee table etc.
Labs are really food/treat driven too
I don't trust the foster dogs,
they aren't trained like my normal dogs are
most of them learn quick too, it's a
No No
I can leave stuff out almost anywhere, as long as it's not too long
I will come back & they will be sitting or laying right there,
drooling, but not touching or eating it
same with treats & tricks/training time,
they will wait until I say OK, then
it's gone
I have set down a full on steak dinner, pizza or whatthefuckever
in-front of my last 3 labs, if it's on a table or counter
they won't touch it, but if it hits the floor
it's gone
now if it was like a hour later,
they may take it off a coffee table or end table,
if it was left there too long
or I was stupid
enough, too long to temp them
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well my late dog, a Lab/Duke 30+ years ago,
ate a whole bucket of KFC,
he was a youngster, less than 2, prior to a MNF game,
before people showed up
(I was out tending the BBQ or out by the pool IIRC)
he took & ate it off the front-room coffee table
It was supposed to be appetizers, before for the main meal
we always had something, pizza sometimes too, sometime tacos
or chips & salsa, or a French bread carved out with spinach dip etc.
we always had a huge 4-7 course meal, at about 1/2 time
for like 20 people
we had MNF parties even when there wasn't any football
I had the go to pad for parties
Anyway, he wore that KFC bucket around his neck for a week or so,
he never touched anything on the table ever again
he'd lay down if he even saw a KFC red & white bag or bucket
(I think it was actually the smell, he recognized)
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I've never-ever had any of my personal dogs
take anything off the kitchen counter or stove
they lay down in the kitchen, trained that way
unless I want them to do something, like sit or beg or shake etc.
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I did have a freaken' cat (Manx) take a whole salmon filet
right out of the frying pan, as it was cooking,
it was maybe 30 sec.'s I was out of the room
he was never allowed on the counters, ever, even
after then/that, he was no longer even allowed in the kitchen
A Squirt bottle works wonders
he'd avoid the kitchen like it was quick sand, after that day