Perhaps you have a dog that only paws at you while the other family members seem to get away with it.
Well, don’t be offended by this as your dog sees you as the best source of attention.
Often the person that feeds the dog, takes him for nice walks, does the training and spends time doing things that the dog enjoys, is the person that the dog will paw at and try to get attention from.
Sometimes the dog will vary the person that he goes to so, if, at mealtimes you don’t never give food to your dog but your daughter does – then the dog will probably go to your daughter to get her to share.
In her best selling book ‘Inside of a Dog‘ author Alexandra Horowitz talks of an experiment involving dogs, chimpanzees and humans, where the human had food and the other two species were monitored to assess their begging activities.
The dogs outperformed the chimpanzees every time so it is worth remembering that next time your dog begs for food that he is an expert.