If you’ve ever owned a dog, you have lived through this. To the point you’d like to put them in another room like a misbehaving child, just so that you can eat your meal in peace. Because the guilt is excruciating.

They look at you with their puppy dog eyes—no matter how old they are—and silently plead with you to share. Eyes that tell you they’re starving. That they will just die if you don’t give them something of what you are eating, even though, not far away, they have a full dog dish.

Puppy eyes are powerful, and most of us can’t resist a time or two. Except when whatever we’re eating would be bad for them, of course.

Feast your eyes on these 29 sets of pure puppy dog eyes.