I love my dogs. We have two of them. They bring so much joy on a daily basis. I cannot imagine living without them. Today my wife turns to me and says "Trixie is hilarious!" Apparently now I'm competing with my dog for my wife's laughs.
Everything is so simple with them. I'm hungry...I'm happy...I'm excited...I'm scared. Sometimes I wish things could be so simple.
Toby is on a diet so "I'm hungry" seems to occupy his his simple mind quite a lot. When we feed him his rations he scarfs them down in an amazing display of speed and graceful mess making. Often time pieces of food go flying from his dish from the frantic consumption and once he is done he has to go find them. Today Wendi fed him and I heard him scarfing it down, then I heard him drinking water. Not really an uncommon occurrence, but he kept drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking.
I looked over at him drinking wondering why he was suddenly so thirsty. Wendi pointed out that a piece of his food flew into his water bowl while he ate. I watched as he repeatedly lapped up water from the bowl trying to get that one tiny piece of food that he had pinned in the corner of his dish. With each lap he failed to successfully retrieve the tiny morsel of delicious food, which continued to float there as if mocking him.
It was as if he could only see that one tiny piece of food floating in his water. Finally Wendi had pity on him and she reached in and fished the food out of his water dish. He licked it up and it was gone as was his apparent unquenchable thirst. Maybe I need to look into my water dish and see what juicy morsel I should be pursuing.
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