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February 14, 2017 7:19 AM

Dogs hunting your dinner. Cats hunting your dinner. Hunting dog dinnerware.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (20 comments total)

I am impressed by a Papillon who is good enough to sit down less than an inch from a pizza.

That dinnerware gives me the shivers. It's tailormade to serve an interminable Southern Thanksgiving dinner with your bone-dry relatives, folks who are suspicious of the entire enterprise of secular art, excepting a very few subjects, such as the successful hunting dog and his ducks.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:37 AM on February 14, 2017 [2 favorites]

Looks like these will be your dessert plates, then.
posted by carrioncomfort at 7:41 AM on February 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

Tommy the Cat walked off with half of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich a few weeks ago. I haven't been able to find it since. I really hope he ate the whole thing instead of burying it, because I don't need ants carrying off the other half of every sandwich the cat doesn't get.

You've all heard the story about the casserole dish my mother's dog brought home, right?
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:54 AM on February 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

I realize this is a lot of SadAndUseless lately, but the dual-platform hunger games were too good to pass up
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:46 AM on February 14, 2017 [2 favorites]

I can't remember whether she wanted my food or just some snuggles, but anyway Hi, Zhora!
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:00 AM on February 14, 2017 [3 favorites]

We've assigned Mr bear to his very own approved dinner chair - because otherwise regardless of what we try, he will be ALL OVER the table. It's win win - he can observe us eat, we can not have our cups knocked over.
posted by rebent at 9:26 AM on February 14, 2017 [6 favorites]

When my wife and I first moved in together, one of her cats had to be supervised 100% of the time that food was out. Or the food could be supervised, either way. I consider it a great accomplishment that I was able to train him to not just eat our food from the table when we were 10 feet away. He's knows that just because I put food out on the table, and now I'm entering the bathroom for five friggin' seconds, that that food is NOT his.

Unless it's chicken, then all bets off.
posted by Phredward at 9:28 AM on February 14, 2017

Well, at least none of them are touching the fishy.
posted by firechicago at 10:17 AM on February 14, 2017 [16 favorites]

Hunting dog dinnerware

No dessert until I see the doggy.
posted by lagomorphius at 11:28 AM on February 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

Our cat, Dr. Cat, doesn't have much interest in human food. If she were to stare adorably up at a whole dish of fishes, I would be hard pressed not to give her some, so that's just as well.
posted by Frowner at 12:31 PM on February 14, 2017

Someone is no longer allowed to sit on laps during dinner because of that one time someone reached up and put a paw SPLAT into a plate of spaghetti. And then had the nerve to complain when someone else had to stop dinner in order to clean tomato sauce out from between little furry toes.
posted by janepanic at 3:10 PM on February 14, 2017 [4 favorites]

I'M IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ
posted by Fuzzypumper at 3:27 PM on February 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

janepanic what a cute kitty!
posted by supermedusa at 4:45 PM on February 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

My wife made pork loin for dinner a few years back and cut it into medallions. While we were getting the table set, we noticed that the late, great Grey Cat was in the hallway and, based on her head motions and what was on the ground in front of her, appeared to be vomiting.

"Oh no Grey Cat, are you ok?" I started to say and then realized she wasn't vomiting. She'd taken a pork medallion and was simultaneously unraveling it and eating it like spaghetti. She'd eaten about half of it before we got it away from her.

She never before nor never after stole food from us, but she was very, very pleased with herself the rest of the night.

From that point on, my wife and I made a point to sing "You... had the pork of your life..." to her to the tune of "I Had The Time Of My Life" at dinnertime.
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:32 PM on February 14, 2017 [5 favorites]

All those poor pugs. Is no one feeding their pugs?

I have never wanted anything as much as that cat on the left wants that piece of fish. That cat is seeing its entire life there.

I think this thread needs some Maymo, though (plus Penny!).
posted by darksong at 7:25 PM on February 14, 2017 [2 favorites]

Our cat isn't likely to eat our food (unless it involves dairy), but needs to smell every. single. thing. Just to make sure. You know. It might be cream cheese.
posted by quaking fajita at 7:38 PM on February 14, 2017

Aww. My dogs are very polite and came with their own weird housewolf rules about not stealing, getting close to, or usually even looking at our food even when it is on the coffee table and we're in the other room. (We adopted them both as teenagers in dog years - 7-15 month old lab mixes with unclear rural backgrounds.) Somehow in their dog brains they're quite sure it's not polite to even ask for human food while we're eating it, but we do clear the plates and then let them lick them. The dramatic canine sighing and increasingly vocal disapproval (yawn-squeaks, half-vocalized wuffs, the occasional husky-like yowl) if we decide to watch another episode or two of TV instead of clearing right after dinner is hilarious.
posted by deludingmyself at 11:20 PM on February 14, 2017

I am no longer allowed to breakfast alone.
posted by Hypatia at 3:46 AM on February 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

I know this is a tangent, so I waited for a while before asking, but is there a disproportionate amount of pizza in these pictures?
posted by Literaryhero at 5:41 AM on February 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

This is what eating with my cat is like. It takes constant effort to keep him away from it. He took a bite of my ham sandwich WHILE I HAD IT IN MY MOUTH. He's my newest cat; the other two (who I've had for 10+ years) could not care less about food, so I've been used to being able to leave my dinner on the table while I step away refill my drink. No more. Usually I just lock him in the bedroom so I can dine in peace.
posted by AFABulous at 7:13 AM on February 15, 2017 [3 favorites]