Bailey is a big beggar. He isn’t obnoxious about it like some dogs can be. He doesn’t whine. He doesn’t jump on you. He gives you your space as long as you aren’t sitting on the couch (and even then, he will give you your space if you push him away). He doesn’t drool. He will just sit and stare you down.
Every night when Craig and I eat dinner, he assumes his position and proceeds to stare at us (mostly me, but occasionally glancing at Craig). I won’t lie, he usually gets a little tiny bite of meat at the end of dinner, never fed directly from the table.
However the funny thing is that we feed him his dinner almost always before we eat ours. When I put his bowl down, he will go over and eat his coconut oil off the top and maybe a bite or two, but then he will leave it there and it will sit for about an hour or so. Then we eat our dinner, he does his begging, and then as soon as I finish and go back to sit in my computer chair, he goes and finishes his dinner. He knows his dinner is there the whole time. He just needs to wait until we had ours at the hopes of getting anything better first. It is the same exact thing every night. He waits for me to leave the table before he goes to his bowl.
Of course this is never the case when we have our foster dogs. When we have another dog in the house, he gobbles his food down right away. He can’t take a chance at our foster getting his food.
I snapped this photo really quickly at the end of dinner. First photo taken and was all that I needed. It definitely captures his begging essence ;) I also broke my B&W rule for this week. I liked the colors too much in this photo.
Daily Bailey 