 Barked: Mon Sep 21, '09 9:34am PST |
 | |  | | My son's kelpie Gravy never eats his food all at once. He grabs bits of kibble and then scatters it all over the house. When he is so inclined, he will stop and eat his varied food piles. The reason that I'd like to know if this is a common kelpie behavior is that 30 years ago, when I was working at Texas A & M, I adopted a puppy that came from a rancher's unwanted litter (he was going to drown them!). I was told that "Inky" was part border collie. She had giant "bat ears" and could jump about 4 feet straight up from a standstill. She also had a similar build to Gravy. It never occurred to me that she could have been part (or entirely) kelpie, until I saw Gravy's food distribution technique. Inky did the same thing. A really weird dog behavior, since all the other dogs I've owned or known just ate all their food immediately and never scattered it around the house. Does any one else have a kelpie that does this? |  |  | |  |
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Specially if we feed her and leave the room. She'll carry a mouthful of kibble into the room we are in, then eat it and go back to the kitchen to get more.
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