Why take food out of the bowl to the carpet?

I had 3 dogs, and 2 of them did it. They brought it into the room where we were. I think they may have done it to be part of the pack ( us).

I have three chihuahuas, and all three of them do this. Their food bowl is in the kitchen, but they will always run into the kitchen, get a mouthful of food, then trot back into the living room, drop the pieces onto the carpet, and eat a couple of them at a time until the mouthful is gone. Then, they will run back in there, get another mouthful, and do the same thing. I don't know why they do it. I figured that it was somehow related to the fact that all three of them eat out of the same bowl, and sometimes more than one of them are trying to eat at the same time, but then I noticed them doing it even when only one of them was eating. My step-mom also has a poodle, and she says that her poodle does the same thing most of the time, even though she is the only dog in the house. I have no clue why they do this. I guess it is just something in their nature. Maybe a vet or something can answer the question for you. If you happen to find out, please let me know. I would certainly love to know why. I have wondered this very question myself in the three years since we got our first dog...

Two of my 4 dogs do the same thing, maybe the bowl bunches the food up so they cannot get a good bite so they put it on the floor to separate it out?? Who knows why they do what they do.If only their little mouths could speak!

Not all dogs do this because my boxer and my lab don't but my Chihuahua does the same thing. Maybe it is a habit of smaller dogs. I am not sure why they do this it is an odd behavior.

Well I have a chihuahua too and he dose the same thing. It is kind of funny taking food on the carpet but he do as you said. He go on the carpet and eat there, maybe he is more comfortable and I think the main reason is that to eat in a safe place where no one can reach his food. My dog eats a lot and every time he sees someone eating he cries for food, and gets really angry in having someone getting near his food.

I'm a vet student and i see this behavior all the time. I also own 2 dogs now. They do that for some sort of privacy. They might think someone might takeaway their food (specially if you have other pets around). Most dogs are very aggressive when they are eating. It is nature to them. Animals in a pack usually behaves like this. They were like that in the wild before we domesticated them. Sometimes they do it just because they like it, most often if you give them a piece bone or a chew toy or something to play with. Try feeding them separately, like one dog in this room the other on the other room. Or you could train or have them trained not to do that.

I know some friends that have little bichon frise crossed dogs, and both of them do it. I don't have a dog in the house, but my farm dog, she will eat the kibbles out of her bowl, but anything else we put in there that is mobile, she will take away. She either bury's it for later consumption, or eats it somewhere else. It's alost as if she doesn't want to be seen eating. I have 2 house cats...brothers. The biggest one is at the food dish all the time, but the smaller one, he reaches into the bowl, while his brother is eating, and drags a piece of kibble up the side of the bowl and out of the bowl. Then he eats it. Sometimes he picks up the kibbles with his paw like a hand and eats it in the air instead of off the floor beside the dish. I've always thought he did this because his brother is like a 'hog at the trough'. But their food dish never gets empty. I just to it up all the time. But they are still more interested when I have just filled it.

I don't own a dog but my neighbor has a dog and she does the same thing. Now doesn 't take it to the other room. But takes it out of her dish and puts it on the carpet to eat it. I wish I knew way too that animals or dogs do this. Unless of course they learned it when they were young. Maybe it's from learning from there mother or even genetics. Honestly i'm not sure.