Noodle Ninja

[Cyndi]

After reading a rather sad and upsetting Ehell Funeral story(that did make me sick to my stomach), I decided to eat. Eating helps me settle my stomach. I warmed up the last of some leftover pasta from something my dad brought home from work. I had the bowl in my lap so I wouldn't risk driping on the keyboard. I'm listening to music on earphones, I'm engrossed in the screen and not paying any attention to my bowl.

So imagine my surprise when I look down to see Bernie disappearing under my desk with a fettucini noodle locked between his teeth!

That dog is dingdangity good at being sneaky. I didn't even know he was THERE until I looked down! I think he ate two or three noodles before I caught him!

Therefore, I dub Bernie the official Noodle Ninja.

[Suze]

MY Grandma's dog , Maybe, was the King of cookie thieves - He would eat them out of your hand and only leave the part that you were holding on to.

He also liked color crayons. But only the "good" colors -- reds, and oranges, Blues and greens.

That was intesting when they made their "exit" 

[blue2000]

LOL!

I've got a vulture kitty who would just love your noodle ninja's technique.

He sits on the back of the couch when I am eating and watching TV. He will hang over my shoulder, getting closer, and closer, until his nose is about an inch away from my forkful of food. If I let him, he would taste it off my fork.

This is still better than my other kitty, who will do that to ME when I am sleeping. I wake up in the middle of the night, to a huge pair of eyes an inch away from my face, staring at me like I'm a really juicy piece of meat.

I always wonder what she's thinking when she does that!

[ImSusan615]

This is still better than my other kitty, who will do that to ME when I am sleeping. I wake up in the middle of the night, to a huge pair of eyes an inch away from my face, staring at me like I'm a really juicy piece of meat.

I always wonder what she's thinking when she does that!

I have a cairn terrier who does this to me in bed.  I will wake up to find her nose to nose and eye to eye with me, waiting for me to open my eyes.  She knows better than to bother me when I'm sleeping, so she waits like that for me to pop an eye open.  I'm sure her staring is what wakes me... that and the cold wet nose... darn dog.  If I leave my plate for a second, she's helping herself.  The other day I left the room for a minute, and I heard a "slurp slurp slurp" sound, and she was in my coffee cup.  I still drank it.  lol.

[Rei-chan]

LOL....try eating with 4 moochers of various sizes!  They leave me alone, but DH likes to give them occasional treats, so they know he's the one to target.

We live in a smallish rental house, and the "dining room" became my computer room, so we eat on TV trays in the living room.  Every single time DH sits down to eat, he has one cat on the back of the recliner (doing what blue2000's kitty does), one cat on the coffee table (who pats his plate with her paw in an attempt to steal stuff), the Pomeranian sits at his feet grunting and growling at the others, and the Great Pyrenees stares soulfully at him the entire time.

The Pomeranian is also an "eggroll ninja".  Once, before the Great Pyrenees came to us, DH sat his plate of Chinese food on the coffee table to get something from the kitchen.  Our coffee table is a little higher than normal, and Wouda has never (in 6 years) tried to get up there.  He came back to find his eggroll missing and the dog hiding under the table, eggroll between her paws, eating it like a human would.  That's when we invested in the TV trays.   

[hobish]

My cat is actually very well trained. It was a long road from her leaping up and stealing a sandwich right out of my dad's hand to eating only what is put on the floor. No matter how bad she wants whatever i am eating she'll wait until i put it down to floor level.

Now i just have to train the man not to yell at the cat when she eats food from plates he sets down on the floor!

Not that we have random food on the floor, he likes hunkering down on the floor with a pizza to play video games.

[Ondine]

My mom has a shih-tzu poodle cross, and he is a horrible little beggar. He learned how to sit up on his hind legs with his front paws curled to his chest, which looked so cute that of course no one could refuse giving him something from the table.
Well, one night, mom and I come into the living room to see Doogie 'sitting pretty' but no one is there to beg from. We found his behaviour quite odd, until we discovered why he was sitting pretty: I had left two Christmas cookies on the table for my mom after I'd gone out to the garage to get the cookies. Doogie could see the cookies on the table, so even though no one was around, he figured if he was sitting pretty, someone would come and share the cookies with him! He eventually did get some of the cookies, as soon as mom and I stopped laughing long enough to sit down and break a piece of cookie to give to him.  Smart little dog.

[BettyP]

Does it count if the vulture is a child? Wee Child loves to "cuddle" with me and, if I'm busy talking, this usually happens at the DILs' home, he will eat whatever is on my fork before it gets to my mouth. We won't talk about the stealing of pepperoni off unattended pizza slices....

AnnaB