For lunch I fired up the grill and made quick burgers. They were fabulous!
Made enough for my son who was at work at the time, but he had already filled up on sushi when he came home. How does one do that, anyway? And why?
Anyway, funny thing happened. After I had given up on my son eating his burger, I decided to cut it in half and then divide that half to give to the cat and dog (one third cat/two thirds dog).
The cat was happy to plow into fresh meat, but the dog, usually eat first ask questions later, would not eat his. He just looked, sniffed and backed off, would not touch it and then he started barking at me.
WTF! So I kept on trying to coax him to eat his burger and he kept barking and looking backward, finally he ran into my son's room and started barking at him. Then he came back out and barked at me some more. Now this was not an aggressive, scary bark - it was a kind and begging, high pitched kind of bark.
I know he was trying to communicate something that we will never get, but as far as I can tell, he wanted my son to have first dibs on the new food I had laid out or did not want to eat my son's food without his blessing. My son was just annoyed at this point and I told him to just watch what is going on with the dog.
I asked my son to just pick the food up and offer it to the dog himself. He did so and the dog gobbled it down in seconds.
I know I am personifying things a great deal, but this looked like the dog was not going to allow me to give away my son's food without him knowing about it.
I have only seen this type of behavior in mother dogs helping her young and never in full grown male dogs.
Scratching my head.
