Because being serious all the time is wearing to the soul, so I want to go back and discuss one of my four footed furries. The Hoarder gets her name from her habit of taking packages of food down to her kennel where she either opens the package and proceeds to consume the contents prior to stashing the evidence of her crime under her bedding, or she stashes the whole thing under her bedding to be stealthily eaten at another time. One of her favorite things in the world is to get hold of a jar of peanut butter, how does she get to the contents? She somehow manages to chew the bottom out in a perfect circle like those can openers that open the side of the can instead of inside the top.
The other day I walked downstairs to change the laundry and seeing that the blankets in her kennel seemed to be gaining in height decided maybe I needed to clean it out. Here's the tally and identity of the remains.
Her kennel contained: 1 soft shelled flour tortilla wrapper, 1 hard corn taco shell box, 2 Slurpee cups(the big plastic ones), 1 Subway sandwich wrapper, 6 empty fry sauce containers, 8 ketchup packets, 1 knife, 1 fork, 1 spoon(maybe she is trying to be lady like), 1 peanut butter jar, 1 plastic bag that used to hold a half dozen bread rolls, 6 paper plates, 1 empty bread bag, 2 butter wrappers(her other favorite food) and last but not least, 1 Styrofoam take out food container.
She should be fat, or at least normal weight, but alas no, she constantly looks as if no one ever feeds her, German Shorthairs tend to be thin but if dogs wore pants she would be a size zero, with room to spare. She is otherwise healthy, hyper and loving just as her breed tends to be, in fact I have always described Shorthairs as springs covered with a small amount of fur. Fat Dog knows she is a Hoarder and is constantly surveying that kennel just in case something got missed, after all a good mother dog cleans up after her children and though she never had any litters of puppies, she has decided all the other dogs and babies must be kept clean, and if she gets a little treat for her work, then it's like money found in the dryer, it belongs to she who finds it!
The Hoarder still can't find a treat under a cup even if you show it to her before you put it under the cup but with her other skills who needs that treat anyway. She can just go down and console herself with peanut butter after all.
Enough for Now
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