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Owned by Dogs (and Steve)

by John Cole|  August 23, 201612:15 am| 42 Comments

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So when I went to the big city today, I decided I wanted some apples, and I got a couple beautiful ones. I then decided I wanted some cheese with them, so I got a really nice block of Vermont cheddar. Started to walk away, and I turned around and also got a block of really cheap cheddar.

And everyone who has a dog knows why I did this.

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  1. 1.

    ruemara

    August 23, 2016 at 12:18 am

    CLOMP! Bonne nuit, grande pieds

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 23, 2016 at 12:23 am

    John, you aren’t following the model. Cut it out.

  3. 3.

    Eric U.

    August 23, 2016 at 12:23 am

    you got the cheap cheese so the dogs could eat the Vermont Cheddar?

    @Major Major Major Major: a model of a random process is no good if there aren’t any outliers.

  4. 4.

    Mobil RoonieRoo

    August 23, 2016 at 12:25 am

    Absolutely with you on this. We have two different cheese groupings in our fridge for this very reason.

  5. 5.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 23, 2016 at 12:26 am

    @Eric U.: it’s 2% better than chance!

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    August 23, 2016 at 12:29 am

    And everyone who has a dog knows why I did this.

    So that you would have at least some cheese for yourself after the dogs ate the good stuff.

    The dog my family had when I was growing up loved cheese, and in particular absolutely adored a smoked gouda that one of the vendors at the local farmers market sold. He had good taste in cheese, that was for sure.

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 23, 2016 at 12:30 am

    @Eric U.: and it’s actually quite useful if you want to determine if a process is random.

    Bigfooting appears to be.

  8. 8.

    JCT

    August 23, 2016 at 12:30 am

    My sweet Rosie the rottie mix LOVES mozzarella. And no, she gets the pizza version and I take the fresh.

  9. 9.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 23, 2016 at 12:33 am

    Sasquatch strikes again. Kittehs are cuter.

  10. 10.

    Vixen Strangely

    August 23, 2016 at 12:39 am

    Heh–Buster the Shiba Inu will eat cheese with no regrets–he doesn’t care if he gets crackers or salami when snacks come out, but his little eyes light up for some velveeta-looking cheese. He is a little snobby, but not where cheese is happening.

  11. 11.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    August 23, 2016 at 12:43 am

    Smedley (Smedley Darlington Mingobat, that is, the dog) lives for watermelon. Also honeydews and some kind of Korean melon I get at the El Grande called a komi or koni or homi or honi or something. He gets crazed when he smells any, and he can smell it from anywhere in the house. Our last brittany spaniel was the same way. She was nuts for any kind of melon. I wonder if all brittany spaniels have this craving for melons. Does anybody else know anything about this?

  12. 12.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 23, 2016 at 12:46 am

    Actually, much cuteness on both threads. Thanks for the smiles and warm fee-fees.

  13. 13.

    seaboogie

    August 23, 2016 at 12:47 am

    Doing that hipster thing and curating your dog farts?

  14. 14.

    seaboogie

    August 23, 2016 at 12:50 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): My pooch would eat nearly everything I gave him, and my old kitty will try most anything I offer her by hand (except pickled things). But all of the cats I’ve had LOVE cantaloupe.

  15. 15.

    Vixen Strangely

    August 23, 2016 at 12:52 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I don’t know if melons are a thing for any particular dogs, but they are at least totally safe for dogs. (unless you just give them a bunch of seeds and that would be weird) but apparently, dogs should not ever get grapes. Although I have found dogs hate food that is round and scoots across the floor and that tends to make them not big grape fans anyway. They also tend to lick all the gravy off peas. I think they can eat them, but I’ve seen them go out of their way not to.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    August 23, 2016 at 12:56 am

    @seaboogie:

    If you ever read the book Chuck Amuck, by animator Chuck Jones, he talks about his childhood cat, Johnson, that LOVED grapefruit. Just went bonkers for it. They would put one on the kitchen floor for him and the cat would corral it into a corner and go to town.

  17. 17.

    Miss Bianca

    August 23, 2016 at 1:03 am

    @Vixen Strangely: Fed my dog some “Boston baked beans” today (candy-coated peanuts) basically because she was staring a hole in me and also because I thought it would be hilarious to watch her try to eat them. It was.

  18. 18.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 23, 2016 at 1:09 am

    Apropos of nothing:

    (1) I am an enthusiastic Hillary voter; and
    (2) Las Vegas creeps me out.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    August 23, 2016 at 1:14 am

    I’m back on the FODMAPs bandwagon (woo) which means I need to make my overnight oatmeal for tomorrow’s breakfast before I take myself off to bed. The Yummy Life has lots of good overnight oatmeal (aka muesli) recipes, for the interested. Good night!

  20. 20.

    TaMara (BHF)

    August 23, 2016 at 1:22 am

    Bixby would prefer the apples. And bacon. I think if I put bacon on his apple half he’d collapse in pure joy.

  21. 21.

    sukabi

    August 23, 2016 at 1:23 am

    @Vixen Strangely: grapes, raisins can be deadly for some dogs….can shut kidneys down.

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 23, 2016 at 1:27 am

    We now have definitive proof that Bigfoot is real and lives in a small town in West(by God) Virginia.

  23. 23.

    Suzanne

    August 23, 2016 at 1:27 am

    Out cat Zellie goes apeshit for green beans. Luna (Lab/Pit) snorks up Brussels sprouts. And my cat Scout will sit in one place and lick plastic grocery bags for 30 minutes at a time.

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    August 23, 2016 at 1:28 am

    @sukabi:

    The cat version of that is lilies or, really, anything that grows from a bulb — onions, hyacinths, tulips, etc. Two of our cats had to spend a weekend getting fluids when G brought a lily home and I didn’t remember how dangerous they are until one of them had taken a few bites from it.

  25. 25.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 23, 2016 at 1:30 am

    @sukabi: I’ve been wondering about prunes. The consensuses that I’ve seen online is they’re OK if they’re pitted, the seeds have cyanide and are poisonous. I’ve give the cocker a few(pitted) and she likes them and doesn’t exhibit any digestive problems.

    ETA: My wife used to give our previous cocker grapes(she didn’t know that she shouldn’t), maybe that why the dog only lived 16 years.

  26. 26.

    Vixen Strangely

    August 23, 2016 at 2:02 am

    @Miss Bianca: Most dogs I know like peanut butter flavor–except my parents’ dog Buster the Shiba Inu–he’s snobby. He wants vittles in precisely a certain chewable size and in one area of the floor. He has particularities that have to be in place even before we get to his flavor faves. As dogs go, Buster is sort of a choosy butt.

  27. 27.

    LesGS

    August 23, 2016 at 2:13 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Don’t know about dogs. I do know that my subscription organic produce guys, who deliver a box of veggies and fruit to my doorstep every week, recently had to say, “Sorry, we were scheduled to deliver you cantaloupes today, but the coyotes came down out of the hills this week and ate all the melons off the vines.”

    I’m not mad. The coyotes are welcome to my melons.

  28. 28.

    LesGS

    August 23, 2016 at 2:14 am

    And, one of my favorite cats as a teen could not pass up kalamata olives.

  29. 29.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    August 23, 2016 at 2:31 am

    @LesGS:

    The coyotes are welcome to my melons.

    There’s an innuendo in there . . .

  30. 30.

    Central Planning

    August 23, 2016 at 2:36 am

    @Steve in the ATL: are you currently in Vegas? I am, and I agree.

  31. 31.

    pattonbt

    August 23, 2016 at 2:58 am

    So if I understand The Washington Post correctly (not going to link), Trump’s new immigration plan is to keep on with Obama’s policies just with MOAR ENERGY!

    That’s not going to go down well with the rubes (though truth be told he’ll pay no price for it – because IOKIYAR and all that). But it will be interesting to see the logical pretzels his followers will tie themselves into with that one (can’t give O-man any praise, but their new God will follow his design).

  32. 32.

    cmorenc

    August 23, 2016 at 3:34 am

    Our Italian Greyhound *loves* cheese – and bits of my steak, chicken, pork chops, turkey, flounder, or shrimp. Or hot dogs. We did learn the hard way not to give her any sort of pepperjack-type cheese; it risks giving her the runs. But dang, for a skinny little dog, she sure does have a voracious appetite.

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    August 23, 2016 at 3:52 am

    @pattonbt:
    Donald’s fans don’t listen to what he says, do they? They just catch a general impression of him — “he says what I feel”, etc. — because that’s all he offers. And his complete lack of substance doesn’t matter to an audience that comes to his rallies basically looking for him to vent on their behalf.

  34. 34.

    manyakitty

    August 23, 2016 at 8:16 am

    2/3 of my cats, but especially the nyminal Manya, adore cheese. Her favorite is dill havarti. Go figure.

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    August 23, 2016 at 8:43 am

    Current soul dog climbs the stairway to heaven with each fresh green bean. Previous dog would stretch back her lips to delicately pick one blueberry at a time off the bushes.

  36. 36.

    Aleta

    August 23, 2016 at 8:45 am

    @LesGS: I’d love to see coyotes having dessert in the melon patch.

  37. 37.

    Quinerly

    August 23, 2016 at 8:50 am

    My dad had a dog named Ruby. He taught her how to eat cheese in 6 different positions (subtle hand signals with words). “Centerfold” was always a crowd pleaser….just dropped a small piece in her mouth when she was flat on her back, spread eagle.

  38. 38.

    manyakitty

    August 23, 2016 at 8:54 am

    @Quinerly: Heisenberg kitty will jump in the air to bite a tiny ball of string cheese. It’s quite something for an 18 pound linebacker of a cat.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    August 23, 2016 at 9:04 am

    @Mnemosyne: Can you eat fruit? Asking because OzarkHillbilly has a great recipe for an oatmeal casserole, but it has fruit in it and I’m not sure you can eat fruit. If you’re interested, let me know.

  40. 40.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 23, 2016 at 11:09 am

    @Central Planning: yes, and suffering from sensory overload. Everything is too big and too bright and too tacky!

  41. 41.

    Carolyn Kay

    August 23, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    A crisp apple, good cheddar cheese, and unsalted roasted peanuts in the shell. A great supper on a warm day.

    I must be a superior human being, since my dog gets the same cheddar cheese I get, only not as much.

  42. 42.

    steverinoCT

    August 23, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    My cats never begged, perhaps because they knew I would let them lick my plate and I’d leave them a bit. Especially good ol’ Kraft Mac and Cheese: milk and cheez sauce!

    My mom’s cats liked when I visited because I’d get pizza and share. Oddly they didn’t like the sauce and cheese as mine did, but the crust. My mom got some dough from the pizza place and would make little crusts for them to chase, torture, kill, and finally eat.

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