Oooooh it's okay when our pooches aren't the brightest crayons in the box. I had a dog IQ test book one day...n' lets just say my Pookins is learning challenged. One of the tests was put a light magazine over a full food bowl, will your dog:
A Dive right past the offending magazine and eat
B Use a paw to manipulate the magazine off the dish
C Look at you longingly, waiting for YOU to take off the magazine
Of course the manipulative answer was worth points. Sophie would look at the dish in puzzlement, even if she was way hungry, and walk away. She never figured out Kong toys at all except how to reduce the Kong octopus to pulp in an hour.