Oh, filets. Mmmm. Can’t blame the animals for liking them!
My animals just must learn the manners. They do not even put their noses to a coffee table. My cats understood the differences, too. The rule: you don’t put feet anywhere I don’t put my butt. They could walk all over the sofa, but not cross over to the coffee or end tables.
My GS Tara is also very good about food. However, there is 1 thing she CANNOT resist if you leave it in an easily (*note: the counter is not “easy”) accessible place while she’s alone. Chocolate. She will withstand steaks and all sorts of good food. But she likely WILL steal the chocolate in the candy dish if you run out to the store.
The 1st time I discovered her “problem” is pretty funny. I had some Nestle Treasures in a dish on the end table. I had eaten some and left maybe 3 on the dish. Went to work, then when I sat down later expecting to grab 1, there were none. I was SURE I still had some there, but memory isn’t very good so dismissed it. It seemed to happen another time, I think. Then I found purple wrappers in Tara’s potties. She had pilfered them leaving absolutely no evidence - dainty as could be, she moved nothing around and dropped nor broke nothing and ate all the food evidence.
We’ve sometimes caught her trying since. Rule: don’t leave out chocolate at all when leaving the house, and don’t put choco wrappers/etc in small trash cans.
Chocolate ... not good. At least they were small pieces.
Mine have their table manners, now.
The filet thing was when she was under 1 year... and come ON... I wonder, even in their adulthood, if two raw filets WERE left on the edge of the counter ............