𝗗𝗼𝗴: 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚒𝚝. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚎𝚍. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛.

August 26, 2018 12:57 PM

In honor of National Dog Day (previously), here's a heartwarming story of hunger and determination. [h/t joycehealy]
posted by Johnny Wallflower (25 comments total)

They're all good boys, Brant.
posted by Splunge at 1:07 PM on August 26, 2018 [2 favorites]

More hungry, hungry dogs: internet classic Dogs In Elk helpfully recreated in carved vegetable form.
(Previously)
[cw: blood, dead elk]
posted by Shark Hat at 1:27 PM on August 26, 2018 [12 favorites]

A nontrivial advantage of small dogs, such as our vallhunds, is that they don't need to be good to not steal sweet potatoes, squash, etc from the counter or table. They just need to keep having stumpy wee legs.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 2:02 PM on August 26, 2018 [8 favorites]

....I remember having read the saga of the sweet potato when it was originally posted to Livejournal eleven years ago. Still worth it.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 3:02 PM on August 26, 2018 [13 favorites]

I was thinking to myself all day, it's 'National Dog Day' if Johnny Wallflower doesn't post about dogs. I'm going to be a sad. Just like dogs, this is a good post.
posted by Fizz at 3:15 PM on August 26, 2018 [8 favorites]

Amusing, but Dogs in Elk will ALWAYS be the ne plus ultra of dog starvation posts on the intarwebs.

And you, Dog! Stop eating horse hoof trimmings. They come out in the same hard sharp condition as they went in, albeit in slightly smaller chewed chunks. On one end of a dog, it's disgusting, on the other, it's painful. Figure it out, Dog.
posted by BlueHorse at 3:32 PM on August 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

Our wiener dogs would pull all the cucumbers they could reach through the chainlink fence I used as a trellis and gleefully gnaw on them for hours. Dogs are happily omnivorous, as long as you keep them away from the few things that actually poison them.
posted by Jacqueline at 3:37 PM on August 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

That was a great story.

I wish I had a dog.
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:58 PM on August 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

So earlier today was National Dog Day Afternoon?
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:29 PM on August 26, 2018 [18 favorites]

Thanks! My RottieX once chewed her way through a tin can of beans to get to the beans (without damage to her teeth-both alarmingly and thankfully) and it's good to know I'm not alone.
posted by frumiousb at 4:40 PM on August 26, 2018 [2 favorites]

My dogs were amazed and surprised that today was just like any other day. Except that they got to have a few, very small, pieces of potato chip as snackies.

I'm sure that in dog news it would be:

HUMAN GAVE THOSE THINGS I SMELLED FOREVER. HAVING HAD THEM I REGRET ALL OF LIFE BEFORE THEM.

Then a few minutes later...

MUST LICK BUTT. OOH SO GOOD!
posted by Splunge at 5:14 PM on August 26, 2018 [6 favorites]

I miss [the good parts of] LiveJournal.
posted by latkes at 8:19 PM on August 26, 2018 [9 favorites]

My dog will BEG for raw green peas in the shell. So nummy crunchy.
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee at 11:34 PM on August 26, 2018 [2 favorites]

I just came home for a break, and my dog had stolen an entire rye bread with caraway seeds I baked yesterday. He couldn't even eat it all up, which is rare. So this is a very appropriate post. I'll have lunch at work, thank you.
posted by mumimor at 1:37 AM on August 27, 2018 [2 favorites]

Dogs have this theory: if it turns out not ot be food, ou can just throw it up later.
posted by thelonius at 2:14 AM on August 27, 2018 [17 favorites]

My cat stole an avocado sandwich a few days ago. Dragged it off a plate and under the sofa. I thought I managed to get it back (and bin it) but the last two days I keep finding chunks of lightly nibbled sandwich in mysterious places around the house.

I guess at least it wasn't a sweet potato?
posted by lollusc at 4:57 AM on August 27, 2018 [2 favorites]

I bought a bushel of pickling cucumbers a couple years ago to make bread and butter pickles and left them sitting on the kitchen floor and went out. When I came home, one of the resident Dogs and a guest Dog we were watching for the weekend had opened the crate and helped themselves to many many cucumbers. I was finding half-gnawed cucumbers around the house for days, including in my bed. Dogs are assholes sometimes...
posted by Cocodrillo at 5:11 AM on August 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

As a child, I had a beagle who would run through my uncle's strawberry patch and snatch strawberries off the plants at top speed. Then she would hide under a vehicle and eat them. She never casually walked up to a strawberry plant and bit off a strawberry, nope, she'd only grab them at full speed.

She also buried the cornbread our neighbors gave her in my mother's flower garden. Leading my mother to believe that her roses had some sort of crazy new yellow mold in the soil for a good two months until she saw the dog in the act.
posted by teleri025 at 6:55 AM on August 27, 2018

One of my cats loves ice lollies. I've never given her any, but she's convinced they must be amazing. (note- i tried to make cat ice lollies using an ice cube tray and chicken stock. they weren't interested.) She does this thing where she comes up to me, sits on my lap, headbutts my face like "oooh I looooove you" and then suddenly will do a snake-like pivot half way through a headbutt towards the hand with the ice lolly in it.

She also likes to steal cheese oatcakes and then lick them until they are damp and gross.

My other cat managed to break into the cupboard and bite holes in a bunch of wet cat food sachets. I found him licking them for the juice. To add insult to injury, it was a brand of cat food that he *refuses to eat*.
posted by stillnocturnal at 8:07 AM on August 27, 2018 [7 favorites]

We changed Jake's middle name to "Dispos-All" after he ate an entire roasted chicken carcass with (thank god) no ill effects. Bread is a special favorite, but he'll go for anything he thinks might be edible. Plus, he's a gulper. I had to stop giving him sweet potato treats because they were going through him mostly undigested. He didn't even chew them.

If only I could get him to eat poop bags, clean up would be easier.
posted by corvikate at 8:29 AM on August 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

Since this seems to have veered into Cat territory, I have no qualms about posting this display of typical Cat behavior.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:41 AM on August 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

So tired after National Dog Day.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:46 AM on August 27, 2018 [6 favorites]

My other cat managed to break into the cupboard and bite holes in a bunch of wet cat food sachets. I found him licking them for the juice. To add insult to injury, it was a brand of cat food that he *refuses to eat*.


Yes, this is indeed a cat. I am about to spend a few days cat-sitting for my mom. She has two rescues, and the newer arrival at first ate quite minimally. He didn’t seem to be in any distress, but he did not have much in the way of stored fat to live on, so she was beginning to get concerned after a week or so of him eating only a few bites a day.

Experimentation revealed that he liked cheese, but only when grated and fed to him by hand. Also chicken. And ham. And, I learned a couple of days ago, olives.

If you’ll excuse me, I have to go peel some grapes for a former stray cat.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 11:05 AM on August 27, 2018 [3 favorites]

Dogs living their best lives.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:11 PM on August 27, 2018

100 Tweets For Everyone Who Knows Dogs Are Better Than People (Pleated Jeans compilation, no Twitter required)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:54 PM on August 27, 2018 [2 favorites]