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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
On its own, your dog probably wouldn't know it wants 5 milkbones, rather it would want enough milkbones to fill its stomach.
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That would be a good point, except that it's not right.
My dogs get all their treats at once. If I put down 4 (they get five) they won't touch 'em till I put the 5th one down there. Doesn't matter if I put 4 down fanned out, stacked up, or any other way, so it's not that they're seeing the wrong pattern on the floor either. They're counting 'em, and noticing that they're being shorted.
Also, we're talking about 3 basset hounds here. Basset hounds NEVER consider their stomach to be full, so if your argument were true for my dogs, they'd never stop bitching at me no matter how many treats I stuck down there.