No, they know if they mither they don't get
Carrying on and mithering me for dinner hours before it was due would drive me nuts but the main reason I don't let them do it is because if they started trying to wake me at stupid o'clock in the morning for their breakfast I'd have to kill them
They're very good though, they get dinner at about 6-6.30 and breakfast about 8.30 on weekdays and anything between 8 and 11 at weekends (unless they're going out working in the shooting season) but despite both Tilly and Caoimhe in particular being utter gannets they don't hassle me for it. I only have Ro here just now as the girls are still on holiday and to be fair he's by far the least foody of the 3 of them, but he hasn't had his dinner yet and he's laid beside me on the sofa totally unbothered.
Walks are a totally different matter though, we have all manner of pointed stares and expectant sitting by the door when they think they're due to go out and charging, spinning and jumping around when I start putting my shoes on, but as they don't whinge or bark I can live with that!