Red and Rover by Brian Basset for September 26, 2022

Like this would ever happen!

My dog is the same way sometimes.

There is a sort of logic there…..

He’s not going to make it very long standing with his nose right over his food like that!

Eat up, Rover…I bet there are Milky Bones for dessert!

you could eat it slowly and smaller bites.

Poor little darling! But Red can’t feed you too much! You’ll get sick! I have that struggle every day with my Lizzie.

Harvey has an amazing sense of time, he’s always an hour early begging for dinner and comes back a 15 minutes intervals until it’s time.

Ha! Pooches have no will power….he’ll snort it up in a minute…

My JRT would just stare at her dinner for sometimes over 5 minutes before eating it all slowly.

Beagle #1 skipped breakfast once. I was immediately on the phone to my vet and had her in within a few hours. She had no other symptoms. It was a very, very rough week – she was near death due to Addison’s disease. She needed two medications for the rest of her life. Know your pets – this was ONE meal ignored. Beagles are pigs. Some dogs are picky eaters, so what I saw would not concern you very much. But mine? With a second dog who would steal it in seconds? Very abnormal, and she wouldn’t have survived the week. I have heard of dogs who just died in a few days because they refused to eat. They could have also been Addison’s dogs. All I knew about Addison’s at the time was that John Kennedy had it. Eventually I knew more than my vet and kept slowly and politely asking to change the regimen as my dog kept improving slowly. Vets have to know thousands of diseases. I only needed to know one, and I learned it very well. I didn’t make any changes on my own, I always discussed it with the vet first. While I had learned a lot, there could easily have been reasons not to make a change I thought would help that I didn’t know about. Slowly the vet came to trust me pretty well on the topic and actually learned a few things – it’s fairly rare, so most vets go by the book. My dog was not by the book.

Good idea, Rover. Smarter than the average dog.