Khan and Pan are just so happy to eat whatever is put in front of them that
it comes as a shock to the system when a dog turns her nose up at food.
Luna will eat when her food is doctored with something yummy. Otherwise,
she skips breakfast, and picks through dinner like I'm feeding her poison.
I would handle things differently if she were my dog, but since I'm only
watching her and don't want her to turn into a bag of bones, I feed her a
little canned in with her kibble once a day at least, to watch her eat with
relish.

On Saturday morning however, we realized that it wasn't so much that Luna
was a picky eater, but that her concept of food does not apparently include
kibble. She was out on Khan's tether, poking about my garden. There was a
quick bit of activity under a bush, and out she pops with a dead bunny in
her mouth. She came quite readily when I called, and wanted to come inside,
but without giving up her bunny. Anticipating what was coming, I told her
she can stay outside, where she proceeded to dispatch the food in a short
amount of time.

The whole time she was eating, Pan was hovering from a respectful distance,
tail wagging, trying to make nice. When that didn't work (Luna wasn't
sharing), she went into the garden to see if maybe a bunny would jump into
her mouth by accident. For the next day or so, she was exceedingly nice to
her, but that seems to have worn off a bit, now that she knows there are no
more bunnies forthcoming.

Luna remains ever so hopeful of catching herself some breakfast, lunch or
dinner. Unfortunately for her, I am not inclined to agree, although it is
tempting to think that she'll take care of the wabbit problem for me.

Suja

When that didn't work (Luna wasn't
sharing), she went into the garden to see if maybe a bunny would jump into
her mouth by accident.


Maui is convinced that if he cries and pleas loud or long enough, the baby
bunny under the shed will come out for him. Luckily its not that dumb.
Unluckily he got the one under the tree and had it dead before I reached
him. I took it away though, he's not allowed to eat anything that cute,
even if its already dead.

"MauiJNP" wrote in message:

Unluckily he got the one under the tree and had it dead before I reached
him. I took it away though, he's not allowed to eat anything that cute,
even if its already dead.

Welcome to the Mean Dog Owner Club!

Actually, I had half a mind to take it away from her, but then I saw it had
a hole on its side, and since I don't know how good her release command is
(or what it is, for that matter), I decided to not play tug of war with the
bunny.

I kept waiting for her to poop out assorted bunny parts (like fur or teeth),
but that never happened. Not even an upset stomach.

Suja

In article ,
Suja wrote:
I kept waiting for her to poop out assorted bunny parts (like fur or teeth),
but that never happened. Not even an upset stomach.

In my (er, my dogs') experience, bunny is highly digestible,
including the parts you'd think would pass right through.
Slick once barfed up a half-digested bunch of mice and the
vet said she was extremely surprised because they're usually
so easily digested. Which just reinforces that the nitwits
at Hills who say that ingredients don't matter couldn't be
more wrong. I'll be if they threw in some bunny and some
mouse it would improve their feeds a lot.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

On 7 Aug 2007 09:56:17 -0400, (Melinda Shore) wrote:

In article ,
Suja wrote:
I kept waiting for her to poop out assorted bunny parts (like fur or teeth),
but that never happened. Not even an upset stomach.

In my (er, my dogs') experience, bunny is highly digestible,
including the parts you'd think would pass right through.
Slick once barfed up a half-digested bunch of mice and the
vet said she was extremely surprised because they're usually
so easily digested. Which just reinforces that the nitwits
at Hills who say that ingredients don't matter couldn't be
more wrong. I'll be if they threw in some bunny and some
mouse it would improve their feeds a lot.

Tasha ate any number of squirrels (entire squirrels, no leftovers)
over the years and never had the least bit of digestive upset. And
squirrels are readily available, so Hills could add squirrel to their
products without a lot of cost increase.

Mustang Sally

sighthounds & siberians wrote:

On 7 Aug 2007 09:56:17 -0400, (Melinda Shore) wrote:


In article ,
Suja wrote:

I kept waiting for her to poop out assorted bunny parts (like fur or teeth),
but that never happened. Not even an upset stomach.

In my (er, my dogs') experience, bunny is highly digestible,
including the parts you'd think would pass right through.
Slick once barfed up a half-digested bunch of mice and the
vet said she was extremely surprised because they're usually
so easily digested. Which just reinforces that the nitwits
at Hills who say that ingredients don't matter couldn't be
more wrong. I'll be if they threw in some bunny and some
mouse it would improve their feeds a lot.


Tasha ate any number of squirrels (entire squirrels, no leftovers)
over the years and never had the least bit of digestive upset. And
squirrels are readily available, so Hills could add squirrel to their
products without a lot of cost increase.

When I was in high school we had a BC named Tess who was a great
scavenger. What she didn't eat she'd roll in. One day she managed to
scarf up a week-old bunny carcass off the side of the road.

Then she went inside and horked it up on my parents' bed. My mother
tried to pick it up with a handful of cheap paper towels, but because it
was soupy, her fingers went right through the paper and touched the very
dead, but only semi-digested rabbit. She threw up so hard she wound up
wetting her pants.

Good times, I'm tellin' ya. Good times....

Unluckily he got the one under the tree and had it dead before I reached
him. I took it away though, he's not allowed to eat anything that cute,
even if its already dead.

Welcome to the Mean Dog Owner Club!


thanks but hey, where's my membership badge?


Actually, I had half a mind to take it away from her, but then I saw it
had
a hole on its side, and since I don't know how good her release command is
(or what it is, for that matter), I decided to not play tug of war with
the
bunny.

I kept waiting for her to poop out assorted bunny parts (like fur or
teeth),
but that never happened. Not even an upset stomach.


Maui puked up the one he had 2 summers ago but he was only 3 months old.
maybe his little puppy stomach couldn't handle it?

Now, he's moved onto bigger and better things....the four chickens and the
rooster my brother left when we were on vacation. the chicks are fenced but
he's working on that! the rooster is unfenced but too fast and can fly!