Two times a day, we go through the same feeding routine with our dogs. We load up their bowls with dry food and make the dogs stay seated (Cosmo drooling all the while) until we say the word “Chow!”

Once they hear their cue, Cosmo immediately races to his bowl in a single bound and starts inhaling his food without stopping to chew. Meanwhile, Kramer remains seated for a few moments and prepares himself mentally for his next meal. Perhaps he’s saying a silent prayer, wondering quietly to himself what is on the menu, or reflecting on previous meals that were particularly tasty. But being quite the genteel soul that he is, it just takes him a bit longer to warm up to meal time. He even self-regulates his appetite, occasionally skipping a meal to maintain his lean frame.

Upon the eventual commencement of his meal, he gracefully walks to his bowl (Cosmo is usually about halfway done by this point), takes a few bites of food in his mouth, walks a few feet away from his bowl, and drops them on the ground so he can eat one piece at a time without feeling rushed. Then he gingerly returns to his bowl and continues eating, still savoring each kernel individually.

Cosmo is more of a foodie. In fact, you could say he’s obsessed. Like a shark, he explores the world orally, chewing on anything new in his path (cardboard, aluminum foil, you name it…). He’s willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get whatever food he sees. Apparently, he’s convinced that his supply is scarce. He eats twice as much food as Kramer, yet always finishes first. Then in an effort to inch as close as physically possible to Kramer’s food without actually touching it (which is against the rules), he will start drinking water out of the very edge of Kramer’s water bowl while staring intently at Kramer’s food. We call it “coveting.”

For your viewing enjoyment, here is some footage of just that.