Do you want fries with that?
In all the years that I have trained dogs, I have noticed that a dog’s diet has a strong correlation to their ability to concentrate and learn new behaviours’ in training as well as hold that information easily until the next training session. A bad diet does affect your dog’s ability to listen and do as you ask.
What is a bad diet?
That is anything taken directly from your plate to their mouth when you are sitting at the table! (as they have been sitting watching and dribbling all the way through your dinner) Or when you take your plate to the kitchen and then put it on the floor for them to ‘clean’. Yes this is a bad diet!!
If you really want your dog to have a few left over’s transfer them to their bowl and give it to them with their regular meal and make sure you have down sized their regular meal a little to accommodate the extra’s.
It is up to you what you feed your dog but how you do this is part of the balance of love and leadership. Keep it simple, do not confuse your dog with food from the table.