I am old dog trainer cannot stand a dog in the kitchen or dining room begging
when we have any other meal they hang out ignoring the person eating .. Now dinner they go to the laundry room "their room" every now we forget to shut the door but they do not come out till all three of us are away from the table
I'd call my Lab into the kitchen if I was boning a chicken, she got the knuckles & skin. But never on counters or at the table. Then again, cats on the counter, or like a friend's Jack Russell Terribles (2 of them !) would jump up on my kitchen counters and just tick me off bad !!! NO NO NO! This friend thought it was so cute....I no longer invite her over !