Though it is Gary’s Birthday Month, I have a fever, and fever tops Birthday Month, unless it extends to a weekend, in which case only open wounds top Birthday Month. This explains why Gary brought home pre-cooked three-cheese pasta from the grocery.
He let me eat it in bed, but I couldn’t eat all of it. I set it aside and rested my eyes for a few moments. When I opened them I saw him feeding the dog three-cheese pasta off the fork.
I thought, “He thinks I can’t see what he’s doing.”
“Ellen, Look at this!” he cried, “Mac eats food right off the fork! THAT’S why sometimes he doesn’t eat his dinner ever though I’ve topped it with pulled pork or kosher hot dogs – he wants to be fed off a fork!”
I chose my battle. “Could the dog have his own fork?”
“Why? I’m sure he wants a clean fork just like us, out of the dishwasher.”
So not even an assigned dog fork, because you know, we might contaminate it with our human cooties.
13 responses to “Soon There Will Be A Dog Birthday Month Too”
Why do I have the feeling Gary’s an engineer? (Or an accident-prone chemist.)
You are hard to please, my Queen. Keep up the good work!
When Ryan goes to Cold Stone, he loves to buy a small cup of the sweet cream flavored ice cream to bring home just for our cat Jojo–who, will eat some for about 5 minutes and then never eat it again. He will not, however remember to bring ME any.
Xman used to bring home hamburgers for the cats. For me? Nix.
Last night my cats had “White Meat Chicken Tuscany in a Savoury Sauce with Long Grain Rice and Garden Greens”. We had eggs on toast.
“Mac eats food right off the fork!”
I tried to teach my cat to eat off a fork, but she would have nothing of it.
“Last night my cats had “White Meat Chicken Tuscany in a Savoury Sauce with Long Grain Rice and Garden Greens.”
Mine likes baby food as a treat, but given that she’s a ten-year-old with bad teeth, it’s become more of an every day thing.
~~Silk – Nope, he runs a computer room. Come to think of it, that’s a lot of computer hardware. He does make schematics and the like.Maybe he is an engineer. You know, they say it isnt a choice.Hattie – I am so, so demanding. Faythe – What? No Cold Stone for Notchy the Squirrel?Becs – Oh, same here. Except it’s Lions Choice.Big Dot – Okay, that’s just silly. That flavor name is so over the top. Why didn’t they end it with “Dusted with caper crumbs” or such.Kathy – Maybe it’s what you fed her. Was it three-cheesp pasta shells from Dierbergs?
Notchy gets to eat “Blueberry Pomegranate Trail Mix Crunch” in addition to her regular unsalted peanuts. The Trail Mix was supposed to be for me, by the way.
Wilbur consents to eat something off a fork occasionally, but always eyes me distrustfully the whole time he’s awkwardly slurping.
My friend says “No WONDER he begs!”
All six of my cats will eat off a fork…or a spoon, or my hand, or the table, or the floor, or a little dish hanging from the wall. or a plate held high above my head. A couple of them will scale my arm to get to that plate. One of them loved raw spinach and lettuce. No salad is safe.
Food opportunists, that’s what they are. They really don’t care as long as there is FOOD — preferably food I am eating.
The same can be said for every one of the dogs I’ve had. I had a Golden Retriever who loved burnt popcorn.
Faythe – Does Ryan have fleas yet?Gaoo -Wilbur must think you’re about to jab him with the fork.Sherri – We had a dog who would scale furniture to get to grapes. Current dog likes eating jewelry and zipper pulls, so I imagine all his food variety needs are met.
I hope you have an excellent jewelry cleaner. I recommend a sonic cleaner to get into the little chinks of chains.
Otherwise, EWW.
Our last dog liked grapes, apples, and bananas. She’d hide them under the bed in her crate. I’d find her “saved for later” stash usually about the time they’d reached “perfection”. I got some of the most killing looks when I cleaned that mess.
Sherri – Ew! I misspoke – he chews on jewelry while it is on the people wearing it. He doesn’t swallow. He just slobbers on it.