doggies are smart critters .......
tell you guys something funny ...
early yesterday morning, I was feeding patches her breakfast
..... she's been very picky about her food since her recent ops and
I was coaxing her to bit into her mystery meat.
My mother was there tending to the laundry beside her in the
backyard .... she started niam-ing me about spoiling the dog and
saying that we should just starve her for a meal and she'd eat up
everything at the next ....
patches looked at her, growled and showed her teeth for 5
seconds, got up, walked over to her bowl, and ate up everything
....
she knows when people are talking about her ... 
that's something about dogs.
cats will totally ignore you and walk away
without looking back