Friday, January 11, 2013

lurchers and whippets, oh my

Things my dogs love to eat:

Carrots
Cabbage
Potatoes
Eggplant
Cauliflower
Broccoli
- all of the above, raw as well as cooked -
Bananas

The whippet's food obsessions:

Soup (preferable chicken, no noodles)
Chinese food
Mashed potatoes
Lentils

They also know how to eat from a spoon or a fork.

Yeah, I got some weird dogs. The whippet though is an oddball. We initially thought he is smarter than the average dog, so about the intelligence of a 2-3 years old. In the last year we discovered that he is way, way smarter than that.

Things he does:
- he understands complex sentences. As "you forgot your ball outside, go get it"
- when they are done with their business out, he comes and nags you to go close the back door.
- he taught himself to bow as "please" when he wants something. No idea where he got that one, but one day he suddenly started bowing "please"

Otherwise, he is the standard spoiled rotten dog, with an extra flavor of idiosyncrasies and emotional issues. The emotional issues coming from his childhood, being abused as  a puppy and then surrendered to a (thank goodness) no-kill shelter where I got him from, freshly neutered and having a bad case of Kennel Cough.


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