It May Not Look Like Much...

You might think I write a lot about the eating habits of my dogs… and I do, but only because I think they are peculiar, especially the habits of a certain little black terrier mix named Chica…

Chica is rather eccentric, especially when it comes to her food. We’ve already discussed how she likes to cover it up, bury it, etc. So, now we are going to discuss how she likes to sort it… yes, as in categories, organizing, by like attributes sorting.

You see, Chica has particular food tastes. We feed them hard food, but Chica prefers the kibble that has softer pieces in it. She also hates anything other than meat flavored food. For a while, we used to buy them a home-style type food that had fake green beans and carrots in it… Chica would seriously pick around the green beans. After she was done eating, the bottom of the bowl would be nothing but green beans. She would even pick them out of the bowl and set them aside. I can’t tell you how many of those stupid green beans I stepped on because she didn’t want to eat them.

Now we feed them a brand with several different kinds of pieces, and she continues sorting. She will pick the food out of the bowl piece by piece. She will make two piles. One, a pile of the pieces she likes to eat. The other, a pile of the ones she does not like. She will then proceed to eat the good pile, and will leave the bad pile behind to be scavenged by the unpicky Dachshund. Want proof? Here is a picture of her food mid-sort.

The pieces on the right are the piles... a little pile of the good food, a bigger pile of the bad food. The pieces on the left are just rogue pieces. It may not look like much, but this is a picture of the hard work of a very industrious, picky, old and crusty dog with a mohawk...

                               

I quite adore her, I do.