Gratuitous dog-blogging: Who took the yogurt? edition
By Gina Spadafori
May 1, 2008
Me: “McKenzie, the yogurt container disappeared off the counter. You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?”
McKenzie: “Nope. Don’t know a thing about it, and why are you asking me? You can’t prove anything, anyway. White stuff on my nose? What white stuff on my nose? I bet it was the new kitten.”
…and besides, it would have gone bad if it sat up on the counter much longer!
Comment by 2CatMom — May 1, 2008 @ 8:30 am
I absolutely believe you McK.
Comment by slt — May 1, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Could that face lie?
My guess is she got yogurt on her face trying to get the container away from the kitten.
Comment by Christie Keith — May 1, 2008 @ 10:34 am
McKenzie, sweetie, if you want us to believe you didn’t eat that yoghurt, you’ll have to wipe the smirk off your face. And the traces of yoghurt…
Comment by EmilyS — May 1, 2008 @ 10:41 am
Comment by Christie Keith — May 1, 2008 @ 10:34 am
“My guess is she got yogurt on her face trying to get the container away from the kitten.”
Yeah. That’s the ticket! That’s her story and she’s sticking to it!
Comment by The OTHER Pat — May 1, 2008 @ 10:45 am
I believe the innocent angel…..McK, next time make sure you wipe some of that yogurt on the kitty, even if it means having to kiss her!
Comment by Sandi K — May 1, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Okay, since we’re talking about flatcoats, does anyone have a favorite NSAI for “limber tail”?
Pepper has been getting what I’ve called “spraining her tail” at least once a year since she was a puppy — usually this time of year. I thought it was a “design flaw” with her having a Shiba Inu tail on a Border Collie body.
Anyway, she did it again on Tuesday — chased a cat and whipped her tail side to side so hard that she couldn’t curl it up over her back like she always does.
After 5 years and seeing it in no other dogs in the practice, my vet was frustrated — gave her the pred, but wished there was something else to do.
So, I very bravely Googled “canine gay tail injury” and found it out the injury is called “limber” or “cold tail” and is so common in active sporting dogs (like flatcoats) that sports folks keep NSAI on hand to treat it on the spot.
Unfortunately, nobody is saying WHICH NSAI they prefer. Can anyone give my vet some pointers so that we can skip the steriods next time?
Thanks!
Comment by Dorene — May 1, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
They always blame the victim—but who is the victim? Gina? Mckenzie? Ilario?
I hope your frig. has another yogurt! I just had mine. It was good, too. Luckily, my cats won’t eat yogurt.
Comment by Colorado Transplant — May 1, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
Dorene-
I looked up the cold or limber tail syndrome and found something on a beagle site.
Here is a link on aspirin/NSAIDs that was on that site.
http://lowchensaustralia.com/health/aspirin.htm
Comment by glock — May 1, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
This happens to be Scoutie’s signiture move…
When I first got him we had ordered pizza and had more than we could eat. I had given him some that be begged for eagerly but the rest was left in the boxes on the kitchen island.
After a while I noticed from the living room that he was walking back and forth between the kitchen and the basement door being very careful not to look at me or be seen for that matter.
When I followed him to see what he was doing I found that he was stealing pizza one piece at a time and taking it into the basement and rolling it up in the laundry hiding it for later consumption.
More recently he grabbed a package of cream cheese off the counter and my wife caught him. He quickly spat it out and looked very guilty. But he sat and looked at the package for some time. My wife not wanting to take it back or waste it just let him keep it figuring the damage was done. But no, he would NOT touch it having been yelled at.
Eventually he walked away from it but it just sat there and the next morning there he was sitting and watching it like the RCA dog with his head cocked sideways.
Finally, I felt bad for him and took it and opened it up and put it in his bowl. Only then would he touch it.
But he really didnt get the bigger picture because just last night there was a piece of chicke left on someone’s plate and I heard a clinking noise so I investigate. Here he had gotten his paw up on the counter and dragged the chicken off to the edge over the plate and the klink was the fork getting dragged over the plate. When I got there he was eating furiously trying to get it down before the reprimand came. I dont think he wanted to conduct another mournful vigil on the chicken.
His favorite is still cheese though. My wife has been known to walk out of the room for just a moment while grating cheddar for tacos only to return to a missing brick of cheese!
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — May 1, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
I gotta love the missing food stories. I have a thief too. My favorite is coming home to find 3 banana peels on the dog bed. Bananas live in the microwave now. Or maybe a better story is me driving down the freeway yelling “leave it” while in the back of the SUV my dog chewed the lid off a gallon of milk, tipped it over and lapped it up. I bet Scoutie would have listened. McKenzie, keep Gina on her toes!
Comment by kb — May 1, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
I love it when black dogs get into yoghurt. I let my Scottie finish off the plain tubs…
http://www.terriertown.com/scr.....ile=42.htm
Comment by Patti and Max — May 2, 2008 @ 6:38 am
I have similar conversations on a regular basis with ever-starving FCRs Flyer and Giddy. (Sunny the Golden doesn’t even attempt to counter surf.)
Comment by Theresa Bergeron — May 2, 2008 @ 7:04 am
charlee says no way did she dig a hole for her tennis ball or steal the watermellon rind…and has complete and total solidarity with mackenzie
http://mainepets.mainetoday.co.....ml?id=1967
Comment by nancy freedman-smith — May 2, 2008 @ 7:14 am
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — May 1, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
That pizza rolled up in the laundry story is like the funniest thing I’ve ever read!
You are lucky to have one who feels bad after being yelled at for stealing food. Graham just gulps it down faster as I’m on my way over to her, shrieking like a fool. She is a little Beagle and once swallowed a muffin - whole - because I was within steps of reaching her to stop the crime.
Comment by slt — May 2, 2008 @ 7:20 am
Sydney wasn’t interested in what was on the table until we had kids. Now all food has to be off the table at the end of the meal. We have the “Mystery of the Disappearing Sandwiches” at our house. At least she has the decency to look guilty. She goes to her bed and makes no eye contact. If caught in the act she just eats as fast as she can and THEN she looks guilty.
Comment by C.L.H. — May 2, 2008 @ 9:25 am
Teddy says it wasn’t him to opened the cabinet, got out the little bag of cat nip, ripped it open and flung it all over the kitchen.
He also wasn’t the one who knocked the plastic jar with the dry cat food off the kitchen counter, helped the top off, and then helped himself to about two cups of food. And didn’t get sick! And the sleeping on the back pose wasn’t part of it, he was exhausted from thinking about how he was going to make sure his evil sister didn’t get the blame for the bad, bad thing she had done…not!
Comment by 2CatMom — May 2, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
SO adorable!
Comment by Amy — May 2, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
I was amused by the other doggies that also gulp down the pilferred snacks when caught in the act. As I posted above he has done that a couple of times but mostly he will drop it and do his level best to look sorry as with the cream cheese package.
Poor guy is cooped up at home all week now that I have a regular job again. He is now waiting patiently for me to get up and go to the farm. He always knows when its farm day because I dont leave for work and he drapes himself over my feet no matter where I sit so he cant be left behind when I get up to go.
If I were to speak the magic words “Go for ride?” he would immediately be bouncing off the walls like a little kid told he was going to the circus.
Of couse we will get the obligatory bag of cheeseburgers or something to have for lunch. Considering that, why shouldnt he think that the food on the counter isnt for him too? He shares everything that he has and is with me. Why cant I share my food with him? If I had come to that conlusion a couple years ago Brandy would have at least had last summer with me. I dont know what great savings I would realize for feeding him only “meaty-Os” or cans of “dog food” that appear only to be for dogs because some corporation tells me that that is what it is and that only their secret formula of downer cows and magical Chinese ingredients is good enough for my dog, but what price would I have paid for that one last summer?
So, so what if he helps himself once in a while? If it got left out it probably would have found its way into his bowl anyway. Then of course there is the other Scout buffet table. You might call it the garbage can. Thats a whole other topic.
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — May 3, 2008 @ 5:47 am
You people think you have it tough.
I have drunk tea mistakenly after my cat has had his fill of it. I have had to switch to herbal tea so he won’t get hyper from the caffeine.
Have any of you eaten food after a cat’s tail has switched around the top of it or drunk juice after the same tail has dipped inside?
Comment by Colorado Transplant — May 6, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
OK, show of hands:
How many of you have eaten something AFTER picking a cat or dog hair off it?
C’mon. ‘Fess up.
Comment by Gina Spadafori — May 6, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
Y’mean we’re supposed to pick the hair off FIRST?
Comment by The OTHER Pat — May 6, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
I’m pulling a McKenzie. Nope, I didn’t see the dog lick that before I ate it. Never saw the dog eating my Cherrios and milk. Don’t know what you are talking about.
Comment by kb — May 6, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
Doesn’t the 5 second rule still apply? If the cat wasn’t shedding on it for more than 5 seconds, its fine to eat!
Comment by 2CatMom — May 7, 2008 @ 6:42 am
I thought dog hair was an excellent source of protein.
Comment by C.L.H. — May 7, 2008 @ 6:56 am