Little furry friends

Zelda has very strange eating habits.  We all know that she is obsessed with food.  The vet said that it might be a good idea to feed her a few small meals rather than one big meal once a day.  So that she wasn’t thinking about the one meal all day.

So she has breakfast, dinner and supper.  Does that sound a lot?  Breakfast is a small handful of dog biscuits, dinner is two big handfuls and supper is the smallest handful.  She has dry food and it is supposed to be low calorie, for dieting dogs.  She can’t afford to have too much stomach because it could damage her back.

One of our friends had a beagle who had a bit of a weight problem and a healthy obsession with food.  Her name was Penny and she was very charming but she was very clever too and had learnt how to open the biscuit cupboard.  There was nothing she liked better than a party; preferably with lots of people.    She would saunter through the crowd, picking up the odd olive pip or crumb for starters. And then as the party progressed  she would scoff down several plates of food without any one noticing.  Eventually she got quite carried away and did it whether people were noticing or not.  I think at some stage she went on a cabbage diet.  I don’t somehow think a cabbage diet would work with Zelda.

Oh dear Zelda!  What can I say?

She has become quite creative in her insatiable search for the next tasty morsel. And I don’t mean mousel!

A month or so ago I was in the shower and when I reached for the soap, I noticed that there were teeth marks in it.  It didn’t happen again, until yesterday.  I had assumed that Zelda had had a nasty shock when she bit into the soap and had learnt her lesson.

But yesterday when I reached for the soap, it wasn’t there at all.  I searched around the bathroom, on the sofa, in my bed, all her usual haunts.

Oh dear Zelda!

Last week I noticed a tube of paw paw cream on the sofa.  It had had it’s top chewed off and had been delicately licked until all its contents consumed. 

I suppose her insides are nice and clean and moisturized.

If only she would stick to more sensible titbits.  Like avocado.  She loves to lick out the shell of an avocado. Grapes and peas are fun as it is rather like playing Fetch except she doesn’t bring anything back.  She eats it instead.

When she is very desperate she licks the floor where something has been.