Sally is nine months old, Jack is 14 years old, so yes, she's still a puppy, but she does know what "NO" means when you tell her "NO" but for some reason, she just has a hard time not loving people food and so even though she has plenty of dog food sitting there for her, she always, no matter what, when you sit down to eat, she will beg, for some people food. I don't break down to her doeful eyes or her incessant whining (which I hate), but she thinks if she keeps it up we'll break down and give her some of our food...nope, not from my plate!!! She thinks she was born to be a musher dog!!! She has this competative spirit in her though that when I go out and take them for walks, she thinks she has to be the leader of the pack and be pulling the whole time, and if Jack decides to get in the lead, oh boy, look out, she doesn't like that one bit, she takes off and about yanks my arm off! fortunately, she's on a leash! Her always wanting people food makes me think of how much our human nature is like that. We just don't always want what is best for us and so we're always looking for what we can get handed to us just a little bite here and there...awe, a little here, a little there....maybe won't hurt us. The temptations in the world are always there so intriguinging at times! The more bites of people food Sally gets the more she wants. Kinda that way with the world, the more we taste and enjoy, the more we want!
