My daughter's little pomeranian is like an addict when he knows I have
chicken or
beef. He just goes completely nuts and he'll walk over her face to get to it. There have been times when I've come to visit and they've been sitting comfortably on the couch with her doing her work or watching something on her computer and him snuggled up beside. He scrambles out so fast that he knocks stuff over in order to see what I have brought.
If I mention the word
chicken, he jumps up and runs in circles. If I human behaved like that, we'd tell them to stop it or they're not getting any.
I'm dog sitting right now, and he heard me say chicken into my voice to text. So now he's standing in front of me expectantly. I'm still in bed and nice and warm. Now I have to get up and go to the fridge or he won't be able to function. :-)
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Sometimes I toss little pieces of chicken into the grass. He works a pattern and finds them all, but then that little crackhead will spend half an hour going over and over and over the spot to make sure that nothing has been missed. He is really lazy when it comes to exercise, so sometimes this is how it's done.