GLAD YOU ASKED.?!

{GRAVY} TRAIN OF THOUGHT

One glorious day, of this gift called life, my friend, Chatty, and I were discussing our dogs diets. (Must have been SOME conversation (?).) I confessed that I would feel like a ‘heal’ if I did not share my table scraps with Dylan and Dalyla (my two dachshunds). Chatty said with a gasp..."NO! NO!”.

Just before you side with Chatty, hear me out. I remember when it was taboo to share human food with the k-9 family. I bought into THAT myth UNTIL, one day, I visited a local mart for “intelligent” pets. As I was browsing, I zeroed in on a can of dog rations that looked GOOD enough for MY own Thanksgiving Dinner!!! The ingredients included lean turkey breast, baby “peeled” carrots, sweet snow peas, topped with gravy....All it was missing was the cranberry sauce......

During Chatty and my stimulating exchange of opinions, I fessed-up [again] at the age of three, my ‘treat’ was the dry dog nuggets that “wishbone” on RAWHIDE would have driven, as I would ‘sit’ on our laundry linoleum and ‘stay’ until my tummy finished ‘growling’. (DISCLAIMER: PARENTS HAD NO IDEA!). I must admit those dry squares were a little ‘rough’ the first few chews...Chatty ABRUPTLY changed the topic.

QUESTION:::: Why, when my pups ACTUALLY decide to mind { RARE occasion} I give them a reward....When I am out of store purchased treats, I pawn off on them....THEIR own dry dog food. I can not EVEN begin to describe my 23 pound male dachshund ‘hurling’ the tidbit about a foot and a half across the kitchen floor, watching as it bounces and ‘rolls’. There is will ‘lie’ until I ‘fetch’ it.

Just today, I had leftover pork, yellow squash, and Green beans with mushrooms, all with my added touch. Dylan approached with caution, nose held high, while tip-toeing over to the aroma. Upon evaluation the this choice of nourishment...he ‘fleed’ over to HIS dry dog food, the same food that he vetoed earlier? (I personally took it personal!) :::

At the ‘tail’ end of Chat’s and my conversation, I pulled out of my purse a chocolate snack for us to share. Chatty proceeded to explain to me that when people indulge in chocolate, it means we are craving intimacy.....After I paused, I inquired as to what I was craving (at the ripe age of three) as I sampled dog kibbles....She could not ‘SPEAK’ !

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