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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9595919" data-attributes="member: 6796661">My doggo is a golden retriever and was certainly not a better player than a cat when young. Like many retrievers he had bad pica. Would eat ANYTHING. Now that he's older, he just likes to lay in the room and won't bother to get up to even sniff a dropped die, pencil, etc.  Food and napkins, on the other hand, I have to warn players to keep it on the table. He is pretty good with food now, you can set it on the floor and he's trained to stay away. But eventually, if it isn't being watched over, he'll lose his will power. But napkins, for some reason, he has no resistance to. I don't know what it is about paper napkins. He is overall a well-trained dog now, but he cannot resist stealing napkins from peoples laps. I don't have a cat, but have a friend that has four. 90% of the time they have no interest in us or what we are doing. But at least once a session, at least one of them seems compelled to show dominance and will jump on the table, bat at a die or pencil, or turn a game box into a temporary bed, taking great umbrage from being dumped out of it when we have to put the game away.The only other pet story I have is when we put my son's adult bearded dragon on the battlemap as a living dragon mini. Put a reptile heat bulb into a desk light to shine on her to keep her properly warm and she mostly just sat there basking. But every now and then she would swish her tail or move to another part of the board knocking over minis. I treated those instances as extra legendary actions. Probably the worst pet to have near a game table for dice are parrots. I never had one or gamed around one, but had a landlord in the past with an african grey. That bird would steal and hide away anything small and shiny. Also, they can be jealous and hold a grudge and they are pretty darn smart and can recognize and remember people. My landlord's bird didn't like his girlfriend for some reason and would sneak up on her and pull her hair. I can only imagine what it would have gotten up to if there was a table set up with dice and minis. Especially if it was in a foul mood.</blockquote>

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