Erin - I can get in my dogs' bowls too. I believe if you are master of the dish, you are master of the dog, and that should be Rule #1 in training. That's how it is in a pack, dogs get that.

All my dogs eat from the same bowl (here are two bowls, but they all eat from both). People can bring their dogs over, and introduced right, their dogs eat out of those bowls too , no probs. Visitors are surprised to see their dogs do this, but nobody teaches a dog like a dog and since all of mine do it, the new dogs jump right in.