Every evening we have a ritual when we feed our critters. First we feed all the cats their wet food in their individual bowls, then we leave the scraps the cats behind in those bowls for our dogs to clean up. I hope this video works - this is my first time attempt doing a video on my phone and uploading it to photobucket. Sorry but it's a bit grainy.
The dogs lay quietly throughout the cat feeding time, which takes about 15 minutes. They remain there until I say the magic words: "Puppy Time!!!".
I forgot to give them their release one night and came back an hour later to find them laying quietly in the kitchen, waiting to clean the cat bowls.
They are very good dogs!!!
And btw - the cats are is Spanky, Lucky and Bob in the video. Lucky is the one that meowled.
The dogs lay quietly throughout the cat feeding time, which takes about 15 minutes. They remain there until I say the magic words: "Puppy Time!!!".
I forgot to give them their release one night and came back an hour later to find them laying quietly in the kitchen, waiting to clean the cat bowls.
They are very good dogs!!!
And btw - the cats are is Spanky, Lucky and Bob in the video. Lucky is the one that meowled.
Those are some incredibly well behaved puppies 
so I have a baby gate and the cats have their own dog free room.
Our neighbor's dog likes to come over for "sleep overs" and since she's here during evening meals, we've taught her to do the same (trained her in 2 tries). One time when the neighbor was here, we went thru this ritual and he stared at his dog in utter disbelief and told us that "this isn't my dog". Apparently she'll fight other dogs for her food. I told him that's simply not allowed in my house. Long story why we sort of share a dog.
Again - why am I not surprised! 
