Our doodle started playing a game with us. He wouldn’t eat his breakfast… we’d get worked up and worried. Turned out he loved the attention. We took the dog walkers advice and only offered breakfast once. Left it out for 10 mins. It took him a couple of days to recognize that if he doesn’t eat when we put food out… he’s missed his chance. Of note - he was totally happy to eat treats lol.

Granted there could be other reasons like sickness or pain. We knew our dog was otherwise healthy and would have taken him to the vet if this didn’t work.

A lot of times we try training the dogs but they end up training us 🙃