When we had spaghetti for dinner a few nights ago, I was reminded of situation we had with Kisa and Larkin many years ago.  Bread is one of their favorite treats — so much so that when we took them to McDonald’s, they’d eat the bread first, fries next and meat last.

Anyway, we got in the habit of giving them any bread left in the bread basket after dinner.  Trouble was… they always knew it would be coming their way and were so distracted by the bread basket they wouldn’t eat their own dinner.  Knowing that dogs cannot live by bread alone, we had to figure out how to curb this behavior.

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