Silly, Silly Doodles

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I think everyone is very familiar with the fact that Murph is my "challenge"....always has been.  Guinness, well he's always been the easy to figure out guy....what you see is what you get....well all except that thing about how he drinks his own pee right while he's going.   Never mind, that's old news.   Once we got Guinness through his IBS and put him on home cooking and I stopped even looking at him when he peed, it's been totally clear sailing with this guy.  A couple of weeks ago, little Guinness pretty much stopped eating.  He only ate enough to keep himself alive...no kidding.  So of course I freaked out and tried to make his home cooked meals a little more "inviting".  Our daughters were pretty disgusted by the fact that I home cooked for him at all, so when they heard I was trying to make the meals a little more "gourmet", that just about did it....I really think they were talking to lawyers about commitment.  They just don't get it...they still think you should just open up a bag of kibble, pour into a bowl and call it a day.  Thank heavens they don't have Doodles...that may work with the Golden and the Lab....but certainly not a Doodle.  Doodles have sensitive tummies and are VERY discriminating.  Anyway, back to my story about Guinness.  So, even these super yummy home cooked meals just wern't working.  Then he decided to take it to the next level.  Two days ago he decided he would not even come into the kitchen when I put his food down.  This was the absolute ultimate hunger strike.  I noticed that he would sit at the door of the kitchen and just wait until I took his food dish away.  That's when the "lightening bolt" hit me.  Maybe it was the dish...could that even be possible?  So I picked the dish up (it's the same dish he's had since the day we brought him home as a puppy) and put the food in a ceramic bowl (his dessert dish).  He saw it, came running, and ate every morsel of food.  Since then his food only goes in that dish, and he's eating like a poor starving boy.  So, help me make sense of this whole thing.  Why would a two year dog suddenly decide that he HATED his dish and would NOT eat out of it?  It's always clean....through the dishwasher.  Nothing changed about this dish.  The complexity of these dogs will never cease to amaze me.  I really think I might need a Dog Psychologist on retainer....or maybe I could find one who was willing to move in here....free room and board.

[Adina P]

I've poured Boca's scoop onto her crate floor when she's moved her bowl to the far end of her crate and I don't want to crawl inside to fetch it. She doesn't care as long as the food is vacuumable by her :) And Guinness I came back to this blog because I saw in the latest activity a mention of you drinking your pee and I remembered how last week Natalie tried to catch Rosco's pee in midstream...luckily she wasn't fast enough. Umm catch with her outstretched hands that is. NO attempted drinking going on!

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Guinness..come on!  Give your mom a break!  I try to always pig out no matter what just so mom doesn't have to worry about me along with picky sickly Taquito!  Be nice to your mom and don't be picky.

Luv your friend Lady Peri

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

OK Guinness you can drink your pee AS you are going and that's just fine but you can't eat out of a bowl that's not proper?? How do you even accomplish that first act? Stange little doodles-what's next is the theme in our house. Glad you have a smart mom and are eating again!

[Frannie & Callie]

Pat - don't feel bad about Trav's food on the floor. I put Callie's in her dish, then she takes out a mouthful, spits it on the ground, eats it, and repeats until she is done.

 

Jane - your boys just crack me up!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

My kids refer to Ned as my favorite child!

[Bonnie and Kona]

Jane, I think it is so cute that you give your doodle dessert! I just put the yogurt on the dog food... and I don't do home cooking for them. You are one great doodle mom!

[Pat and Traveler]

HAHAHA--love that Guinness has a dessert dish!  Sometimes when Trav isn't eating his Wellness kibble, I take a handful and toss it on the floor and THEN he eats it.  Now I feel like a doodle-abuser--ON THE FLOOR???  I should have provided him with a dessert dish.  :)

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Guinness will you adopt me!  You're Mom makes great desserts.  I promise to bring Clover so you and Murph have a playmate.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

For those of you wondering about what the guys get for "dessert"....here it is.  This is the bowl that Guinness WILL eat out of.

[Coco Chanel and Cheryl]

I thought that Coco was like that too. I tried different bowls, different places to put the bowls and nothing seemed to work. Well my vet put her on prescription food and she didn't like that either. I realized that maybe it was the flavor, plus I was not keeping her on rx food if I didn't have to. I am trying Nutro Natrural Balance in the herring recipe for sensitive tummies, which I think she has. Knock on wood, she is tearing. It up!!! I think she was just tired of chicken flavored food!! Picky doodles!!