My three dogs sit and watch me chop when I am cooking, and
the Golden doesn't even look up any more, she keeps her eyes peeled on the floor. She is always the first to get any tidbit that falls, the other two can't catch worth crud.
I was in the kitchen, preparing their treat balls. Since nothing is safe in a kitchen with great danes, we keep a gate across the doorway. The baby, who is six months old AND 3 months out from having her broken leg operated on AND suffering from a bone disease common to large breeds does not think that gates should keep her out.