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.

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Jane, I have noticed the ads horning in lately too!

[Melody & Bruin]

I wanna know what he gets for dessert!

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

Funny, my ad is for StoneDine, Healthy Eating cookware ...... seems appropriate.  Maybe you need to buy some Jane.

[Donna K & Quincy]

There was a commercial but the one I saw was for some sort of investments.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Does anyone else see a Photography "commercial" right in the middle of my blog...or is it just on mine?  OMD..it has been a very strange day.

[Anna and Achilles]

I think Murphy got him to give you a little trouble. He didn't want to be the only one. Instead of peer pressure it is Dood pressure.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I don't have a clue as to why Guinness has suddenly decided that he doesn't like his food dish, but JD says "Thanks, Guinness! Now my mom feels much better about all of my strange quirks!"

[Adina P]

Funny Guinness!  Now MY doodles have never been discriminating nor do they have sensitive tummies...but Guinness and Murphy got lucky to find someone who is willing to cook for them.  Mine would eat decomposing 'Ol Roy out of a trash can :-/

[Jennifer and Jack]

That is really funny. Someone on the Paw Pad fan club page just went through almost the same exact thing.. Same bowl for a long time, then blam wouldn't eat out of it, it was a metal bowl so they thought maybe he didn't like that after a year... Dogs so funny

 

On a side note, I need to read your blogs more often because if I ever think I am going over the top with Jack, I can read on here.. A dessert dish????? Wow, that is so cool, if Jack ever gets dessert, and I mean it is rare once or twice a year it is served in his same food bowl or in the ice cream container it came in.

 

You are such a cool doodle mom

 

[Donna K & Quincy]

Jane, I think he is just trying to keep you guessing and it seems to be working. Only a doodle mom would be intuitive enough to figure out it was the bowl, good for you.