Come Have A Little WHINE With Me! Our Dogs' Crazy Eating Habits

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Who could be mad at this face? ME! I am trying to do this obstinate bratty doodle a favor by spending a fortune to upgrade his food, and he is throwing a little fit and having a hunger strike. He wants his crappy chemically enhanced food back! Since he is at least 5# overweight (this can be verified by the husband of the administrator of DK, who felt the excess avoirdupois with his own hands), I am not too terribly worried about it. But Jackdoodle's picky ways are just driving me crazy! He has many times abruptly stopped eating some treat he had previously loved, running the other way when I take the bag
out of the pantry as if I were trying to poison him. He has marrow bones lying all over the house that he chewed for 15 minutes and then abandoned. He will sit in the doorway to the pantry and stare at me, past the full bowl of ultra-premium kibble and the scattered bones...what is it he wants? If it is to move to New Jersey, he is out of luck at the present time. He will not eat a carrot, a piece of banana, even a piece of cheese...but I have to hide in the bathroom to eat a tuna sandwich, and the sound of an egg cracking would summon him from another planet. He is the craziest dog I have ever had.
Boy, do I feel better getting that off my chest! C'mon, join me...no advice, no solutions, just a place to vent about your dog's crazy eating habits. (Things like socks and kids' toys count, too!) You know there's something your doodle does with food that drives you up a wall! How about that thing where they take the food out of their bowl piece by piece and carry it over to the rug to eat? Let's have a good whine fest, and maybe a few laughs while we're at it!

[Lynne Fowler-Oodles of Doodles]

First of all, let me just say that your Jack is the handsomest doodle on the planet. Just look at that face. Second, even my beautiful lovingly prepared homecooking sometimes goes uneaten. Tonight I put Ginger's bowl down and she looked at me as though I were feeding her commercial dogfood. But as the family sat and ate pizza, she was at my feet waiting for her crust. So even I have some craziness over food. Cody is the one who will pick a piece, run to the rug and eat, come back for another and so on. Now Jack, I think I could feed that boy straight rat poison and he'd eat it. He eats anything and everything. Including cardboard. That's his favorite lately. And don't forget the sofa and chair he ate when younger.

Jack also had a thing this summer for sunflower leaves. Not the flower, the leaves. Every one was stripped clean of it's greenery and Jack was caught in the act several times. Ginger is the one who gets fussy sometimes. But the Dogswell "chicken things" are her favorite. She will sit, stare at the cupboard and cry until someone comes to get her one. She also likes mail. Tears it, flips it over her head and runs away with it. I think she thinks it's a game. The things we do ...

Anyway, I don't think it will hurt to skip a meal or two. And NJ is too cold this time of the year. Come in the summer.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I am laughing over all of your adorable goofballs! It's so funny to hear about the cardboard, pizza crust, and sunflower leaves, and a relief to know that even you "have some craziness over food!"

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

LOL!!...I'm laughing at all of these posts!....Don't kid yourself Lynne....Ginger is tearing through the mail looking for her Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes check.....and maybe Jack is trying to tell you that he simply would like a goodhealthy salad for a change!..lol

[Lynne Fowler-Oodles of Doodles]

Ginger checks the mail to see if there are any chicken things (jerky) in it. And Jack does eat salad. He will eat anything. His favorite are tomatoes right off the vine. Squished tomatoe seeds from his face are lovely to clean. He also likes French Dressing on his lettuce leaves.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I am laughing out loud at the image of this white doodle with lettuce sticking out of his mouth and a little dollop of French dressing on his nose! And yes, I know it isn't me that has to clean his beard afterwards- LOL!

[Lynne Fowler-Oodles of Doodles]

He is a character. Not much makes it to his beard.

[Adina P]

Jack, Jack, Jack! Don't you know your Mama is just trying to maintain your ability to play fetch for a long time???

My three are all too eager to eat food -- ANY food or resemblance to food! I drop a piece of dry spaghetti on the ground and a little vacuum named Thule emerges out of nowhere. This same Thule would march down to our grass compost bin every morning, fill herself up on " salad" and when called to come in...would ever so slowly meander forward trying to chew and swallow the last bits of her outdoor meal in hopes I wouldn't notice the sprigs of green poking out of her beard. It was of course easier to see on my apricot's chin.

None of my dogs, knock on wood, eat their own poop. BUT that of other species is a delicacy. On the day Rosco took his delta therapy evaluation...we stopped for a potty break after the 3 hour drive in cold Nov weather. well lo and behold before i could even blink he scarfed up a wad of poop that left drizzle down one side of his beard......BLEEECHHH! Thank goodness I had a bottle of water to pour on his beard. I was afraid that the evaluator would get too close to him and fail him, blaming me for improper doggie hygiene.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

LOL! This is one photo we are glad you're not posting!

[Adrianne Matzkin]

The thought of that gorgeous face with the drizzle is too much to bear!!

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oh the eating of the poo's...makes me GAG! we had a scotty when i was still in high school, and every chance she could get she would fly down the stairs, slide around the corner into our laundry room and jump into the kitty litter box to gobble at the speed of light any kitty poo's, litter included... that she could before we would catch up to her and drag her out...and what was funny (and it was hard to find anything funny at that point) but her little doggie lips and beard would be covered in litter...gross!!! sorry i have no photo! lol

now, onto the pups that i have now.....so far i can't complain...except for the issue we have with this dogwood tree that produces these pointy berries that are about the size of a quarter and about as round as a lg. grape. we had them every where and you would have thought that i had just taken izzy & tucker to the fruit buffet at the local Eat and Park! they would fly out the door, run right to the tree and gobble these berries...at first i panicked, called the vet, searched the internet...izzy never got sick..then we got tucker...he does the same...so neither of them got sick, or even an upset belly, so i guess next fall they will have their fruit bar back in our front yard!

karen, what kind of food did you decide? the only reason i ask (not giving advice...lol) is that i got the salmon n. variety and oh baby the gas!!! lol which is great i have family coming in for thanksgiving tomorrow and i have gassy, very gassy dogs just what i need!!

lol and it is mainly tuck he has never had this before...lol

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I started with the NV Lamb, because it's closest to what he's been eating, but evidently he hates it. I think he will like the salmon better, but with this loony dog, who knows. He really needs a "buffet", like your dogs' fruit tree, LOL. (Lynne is so right about them needing variety!) I did give in tonight and scrambled an egg to mix into his food, but I only did it because he's having blood work in the a.m., and he had to eat before 9 pm or go w/o food until we get back from the vet tomorrow.
I admit, he has me completely wrapped around his paw, and he knows it. I use the excuse that he is my "change-of-life baby" to explain why he's soooo spoiled!