We are having problems with the girls again

1. Bella is taking food out of everybody's hands you can be sitting or standing she doesn't care how she gets it as long as she can gets it How can I stop this behavior? It's driving me and hubby nuts!!!!!

2. Abby is a chewer she grabs everything and eats it we even sprayed bitter apple and she goes back and chews again i have lost 2 scrapbooks this weekend hope she liked the pictures.

Any advice would help they are in their crates right now because bella just took my son's poptart out of his hand and ate it .

Just a question Nora.  You say crate them when the kids are eating, but in my house SOMEONE is always eating something out of the 4 kids, so really crating is not feasible.  I don't take my eyes off them but they act the same way as Bella, little theives that are never fed so they are starving!  

You have to find something that works for your household.  It is usually recommended that when a family sits down for a meal that a dog be crated... especially in the beginning so that the dog learns the boundaries.  Your best bet is to deny your dog access to the kitchen or areas where food will be.... or at least limit the areas where the kids eat.  If they eat in locations all over the house... how can a dog learn any boundaries? 

If this simply isn't accomplishable... set up a situation to tempt the dog as as he is about to pounce  you correct him. Keep the food in front of him and make him sit and stay. If he pounces, again correct him. You just have to keep at it, the dog will learn then that he can only eat what is given to him and he just cant take it whenever he feels like it.You have to own the piece of food.  Catching the dog in the act is vital.  It's common knowledge that you have 3 seconds to punish a dog for what it has done, after that forget it, or it thinks it is been punished for that very last thing he has done , which could be just simply sitting.  

If crating is not an option... then teaching your dog good manners has to be an option.  Otherwise, your dogs will feel they have a "right" to food that anyone is eating, and that will include visitors.  I realize the whole hectic toddler life... and Sarah I know you have your hands full with four children and two ratties... so I do understand.  But as with anything else... it takes training... training in a way that fits in with YOUR household works for you.

Somehow we managed to teach Yaz that when someone is at the table, her paws cannot cross from carpet to linoleum. We are a family of 5 so we also seem to always have someone eating. Before Yaz we would eat wherever so having her has taught us good habits as well. Since she is a terrier(terror) she still tries to sneak in. We just snap our fingers and point to the living room and she backs up 'til her paws hit carpet. As far as chewing goes I have no words of wisdom except yeah keeping things picked up as much as possible and limiting access to rooms. I once had a dog that was an awful chewer. She would chew anything. Then one day, snap, just like that, she stopped.

I taught my four dogs that too, Amy.  When we are sitting at the table, they do not cross over from the carpet to the ceramic tile.  It's really easy to teach because it's a VISUAL thing to teach.  They can actually SEE what they are supposed to do.

However, when you have toddlers and they tend to eat in all areas of the house... not sure that would work. 

Spanky also knows the "Leave it" command and it does come in useful for many reasons. The main thing is to be consistant in your training, correct when wrong...praise,praise,praise when they are right.