Trying to steal my food!

Had a look on the forums and can't find anybody else with this issue, although I bet you all remember it well.

Food is the issue and wanting mine. I've started feeding Sky a few times before me just to see if it helps, but it doesn't.

Basically when I cook my dinner, I sit and eat it, and Sky just spends the entire time trying to get closer and closer to the plate. She has even learnt to Indiana Jones along the back of the sofa and make a jump attempt. It is just bloody annoying. The last thing I really want to do it put her in the crate whilst I eat, I just want her to realise it's my dinner time. I keep telling her know and putting her a few meters away but she just has none of it :-(

I was thinking of stealing her food whilst she was eating, but I doubt she would understand my point lol.

Somebody must have some tips, tonight I'm cooking chicken and she is not having any :-)

Have you tried a mat, away from you which is hers, she has to sit and stay whilst you eat, if she moves you pop her back on the mat. It may take a week of you eating cold dinners getting up and down but if you repeat it, and be consistent they do learn

I was going to suggest more or less what janey said. I'd recommend doing this a few times a day, even just with a little snack, so she picks it up quicker. It'll be constant at first of course, but once she gets the hang of it, it'll go by faster

I wouldn't recommend feeding her before you feed yourself or your family. As cruel as it might sound the dog should be last to eat. It's all about pack dynamics, if she eats before others in her "pack" then she he is higher in the pecking order.
I agree with the above recommendations, sbt's are very clever and eager to please so she will soon learn.

I used to have many a cold dinner, Katy used to be a right pain. I found if she kept pestering i would put her in another room only for a minute or so then let her back out. After doing this over a couple of days she soon learnt. Now when i sit down to eat she will go and lay on the floor (watching of course ) You just need to stick at it

tyke has a habit of doing this and is worse with my little boy. so we use a matt as janey recommend

Alfie used to do this, he would get up on the sofa with me. I just had to keep putting him on the floor and saying no when he jumped up and he soon learnt - now he just lies on the floor hoping something will drop off the plate lol

Do you have a baby gate you could put up? You could also teach the go lie down command. We struggled with this one for awhile and still won't leave food in her reach if we aren't in the same room. She is know well behavied at mealtime though it just took some patience and consistancy

im anal when it comes to feeding, measured and relating to workload. no human food ever but....while im eating marley will somehow inch his way closer unseen to the point i only notice when a tongue shoots out like a salamader picking a fly off a flower towards my food. laska doesnt bother she gets the deal but marley is a git and treats it like a challange. its my failing and i once let him get a tongue full of madrass thinking it would put him off but no he was after seconds straight away. ive tried everything apart from putting him out the room while i eat (he'd howl the house down) if you find something that works please please let me know!

I don't have the food stealing issue, as I put her away when we eat or gate her in a different room. But she is impulsive and the trainer from class recomend a video on YouTube called "it's yer choice" it's a little hand game that helps them learn boundaries and work on impulse control, I myself will start to play it tomorrow. Watch it and see for yourself I guess, may be a slightly different situation than mine but may help.

We feed Rocky just before we have our dinner so he then has a little cuddle on my lap then goes to sleep while we have ours. If he should wake up he will go and sit in his bed, by himself no prompting from us, until we have finished.

As there is only my wife and myself at home now we eat nearly all our meals at the breakfast bar. Bacchus lies in his bed close to us, but only because he likes to have company most of the time, and doesn't scrounge, but anything which falls on the floor is definitely his.
On the other hand if my wife sits in a chair in the lounge, he does tend to sit and stare unless I tell him NO. He doesn't do it with me, in fact if he is sitting on the sofa with me and I have a snack he'll sit with his back to me and watch out of the corner of his eye. It's actually quite comical. However we never give in and share ,as this would encourage him to beg.
Like bloomooner we always feed him after we have eaten.