Day 364 - watching for squirrels

She's been eating pretty well the last few days, both breakfast and supper.  I'd been having to put the other two dogs out when I leave for work to keep them from stealing her food, but when the weather turned cold I hated to.  And suddenly, I didn't have to.  Yay!

This morning was weird.  She was sitting by the mostly-empty food bowl, and as I went toward the back door Zack approached it.  She jumped up and leaped toward him--almost but not quite jumping over the bowl.  Food flew everywhere.

Only twenty or so kibbles, luckily.  I picked most of them up and restored them to the bowl.
So was she guarding her food at last?  Or just playing?