Desy the Driven
Desy has a thyroid condition which causes her to be very hungry at times. She's taking medication each morning for it but she is often driven to find food. Every once in a while when I'm away from the house she finds something to eat on her own, something I'd rather she didn't eat.
Yesterday I brought in the jar of chunky peanut butter from the cold entry room off the kitchen. It's the peanut butter I have to make the birdcake that I put in the holes in the critter log. I expected to let it get warmed up and then I'd make the mixture in the afternoon.
When I got home from Aquarobics, I found that Desy had taken the jar down from the kitchen counter and chewed the plastic lid off of it and cleaned out most of the peanut butter. There's maybe half a cup left in the chewed up plastic jar. Fortunately, it wasn't a big jar. Amazingly, she didn't get sick from that binge.
Submitted by
mary lou
at 1/25/2005 11:43:38 AM- LOLOLOL Well at least it is fairly healthy for her. Treat of choice here for Sadie, is used kleenex. She will get in the garbage and shred all she can find, I dont EVEN want to analyze her poop!!
Submitted by
NJ
at 1/25/2005 2:08:29 PM- Oh, yeah, most dogs do like to chew Kleenex. It disgusts us but they are so ANIMAL. The peanut butter didn't seem to hurt her but even before I saw the "spoor" I knew it was Desy who had chewed open the jar. She will do crime for food!
Submitted by
Lorraine
at 1/26/2005 5:57:11 AM- Well, at least it's not ink pens and furniture. :)
Submitted by
NJ
at 1/26/2005 7:04:59 AM- That's true, Lorraine. I don't remember Desy being very destructive, even as a puppy. She is very food oriented. She gets into things that I would never expect her to get, --things with lids. She destroys those containers. She chewed through the bottom of a canvas tote bag that I had hanging on a door knob to get some candy bars that I had in it. Destroyed the bag. She's taken bananas out of the cupboard and eaten them, and cookies from various places where I thought she couldn't reach. She keeps on surprising me with her ability to steal food.
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'Driven' is definitely the appropriate word. It mustn't have been easy to chew off that lid, nor finish off most of the jar of such a gooey treat.