#24 Dog Sneaking Food to Autistic Child
I have an autistic 11-year old and a Carolina Dog that we got when he was two. After about a year the dog started regularly bringing him food. She would sneak toast off the kitchen counter and lay it on the foot of his bed while he was sleeping, or lift a sandwich from a plate I had just set down and when I’d track her down she’d be nudging it toward the kid while he watched TV, oblivious. Whenever I try to give her people food like a hamburger or burrito, she waits for me to walk away, carefully removes it from her dish, then trots upstairs to drop it wherever he’s playing.
I keep telling him this is an *exceptional* dog—he’s just ‘meh, whatever’.
