It is funny how all animals react to food. I read where eating is a social thing mentally for all species of animals. Even if we show up at someone'e house and they have a big bowl of hot Rotel and chips, we want to dive in too. We may not even be hungry, but to get a bite is just programmed in us all. Just talking about a big bowl of hot dip makes me crave it now. Ha-ha!!
If I eat, my dogs eat. They are family and know they will get a few big bites of it too in their bowl.
Even when I go out to feed cows and horses, they all start licking their lips before I get to the trough with their feed. And if I were to be eating something in front of Joe, the horse, he is going to insist on getting part of that too. I love these animals!!