I miss my family dog who died when I was 16 years old in 1996... Our family male dog was cocker spaniel and was named blondie. He was very overprotective each one of us... He would vacuum the food off the floor. When we gave him the dog food, then we back off for a bit then try to take the food away from him, you would be hell scared from him, cuz he growled, snarled at us then hurrily try to eat the food fast as he can and walk, push the dog can try to avoid us getting it... His favorite food was ice cream, he wouldn't never lick the ice cream unless it was too big but mostly we take a scoop of ice cream and drop front of him, he would catch the ice cream in his mouth and swallow the whole damn thing, then you'd see his whole body having a chilly moment. The only thing he hate is the hot sauce, one time we tried to put a little hot sauce on ice cream in a bowl and gave to him, he would almost go ahead eat ice cream but the smell of hot sauce stopped him for awhile until if one of us tries to come near the ice cream, he would grr at us then chomp the ice cream... result? licking 2 water bowl and alot of pee....