Hold, inu, hold
Inu just could not wait to get to her food once she sensed that food was on the way to her. She still does not understand that even taking and preparing for food takes time. We decided to teach her to hold on while placing her food bowl in front of her.
As you can imagine, the first few time was a big failure. We had to hold her up tightly between our hands and kept yelling: “Hold, inu, hold.” Inu just did not care for anything else once she saw her food. She would struggle with all forces trying to rush to her food.
After a few practices, inu seemed to be able to hold up a couple seconds before dashing for her food. Sometimes, she would walk around our back trying to get to her food from the other side. Apparently, she understood that we were trying to block her from reaching her food directly. We were very glad even with this small progress. We will need to train her more.
We took inu to central park during the past weekend. It's a well maintained park that allows pets. Surprisingly, inu was the only pet in the morning walking around the ponds.
Inu finished her 7.5 kg puppy dried food in 6 weeks. We bought her first bag of dog food on March 11th and we bought the second one on April 23rd. Let's see how fast inu can finish the second bag. For extra treats, we also bought a can food of beef/chicken flavors for inu. She seemed to like it very much. She kept licking her bowl after finishing the food.
I learned a special medical term for dog lately, Coprophagy, which means “stool/feces eating” in Greek. Copro = feces and phagy = eat. I can't even pronounce it though. Anyway, it's so disgusting seeing inu enjoy eating her stool and she would eat them SLOWLY. I still don't understand why on earth dogs would eat their own stool as it stinks so badly and dogs have better noses than human. Well, may be it smells great for the dogs. While searching the Internet, I found that there is one kind of tablet that can be added to dog food. It is tasteless at the beginning. After going through the digesting system, it makes the stool a very bad (or bitter?) taste. But I sincerely wonder how much more 'bad' could the taste go as the stool itself is unbearable already. Inu, please grow up.
As you can imagine, the first few time was a big failure. We had to hold her up tightly between our hands and kept yelling: “Hold, inu, hold.” Inu just did not care for anything else once she saw her food. She would struggle with all forces trying to rush to her food.
After a few practices, inu seemed to be able to hold up a couple seconds before dashing for her food. Sometimes, she would walk around our back trying to get to her food from the other side. Apparently, she understood that we were trying to block her from reaching her food directly. We were very glad even with this small progress. We will need to train her more.
We took inu to central park during the past weekend. It's a well maintained park that allows pets. Surprisingly, inu was the only pet in the morning walking around the ponds.
Inu finished her 7.5 kg puppy dried food in 6 weeks. We bought her first bag of dog food on March 11th and we bought the second one on April 23rd. Let's see how fast inu can finish the second bag. For extra treats, we also bought a can food of beef/chicken flavors for inu. She seemed to like it very much. She kept licking her bowl after finishing the food.
I learned a special medical term for dog lately, Coprophagy, which means “stool/feces eating” in Greek. Copro = feces and phagy = eat. I can't even pronounce it though. Anyway, it's so disgusting seeing inu enjoy eating her stool and she would eat them SLOWLY. I still don't understand why on earth dogs would eat their own stool as it stinks so badly and dogs have better noses than human. Well, may be it smells great for the dogs. While searching the Internet, I found that there is one kind of tablet that can be added to dog food. It is tasteless at the beginning. After going through the digesting system, it makes the stool a very bad (or bitter?) taste. But I sincerely wonder how much more 'bad' could the taste go as the stool itself is unbearable already. Inu, please grow up.
posted by inusan at 4/24/2006 06:21:00 PM
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