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It occurs to me that my dog treats her food bowl a lot like the rest of the household treats email.
First thing in the morning, before cuddles, peeing, or breakfast, she has a quick look in the bowl just to check if anything interesting's landed in it overnight. Nothing ever has.
She checks it multiple times a day, in case anything interesting has arrived.
Usually it's full of boring predictable stuff that's been there for some days. She spends a lot of time sniffing over it, poking it about, and then ignoring it.
Despite generally seeming uninterested in the actual contents, she guards her bowl fiercely.
A lot of what arrives in the bowl is stuff more important people don't want to eat, such as pieces of saggy broccoli, but it's still more interesting than the stuff already in there.
Scavenging food is vastly, vastly more interesting than eating it out of the bowl, even when the content is identical, but especially when it's something dirty off the street.
There is probably a lesson in all this somewhere.
First thing in the morning, before cuddles, peeing, or breakfast, she has a quick look in the bowl just to check if anything interesting's landed in it overnight. Nothing ever has.
She checks it multiple times a day, in case anything interesting has arrived.
Usually it's full of boring predictable stuff that's been there for some days. She spends a lot of time sniffing over it, poking it about, and then ignoring it.
Despite generally seeming uninterested in the actual contents, she guards her bowl fiercely.
A lot of what arrives in the bowl is stuff more important people don't want to eat, such as pieces of saggy broccoli, but it's still more interesting than the stuff already in there.
Scavenging food is vastly, vastly more interesting than eating it out of the bowl, even when the content is identical, but especially when it's something dirty off the street.
There is probably a lesson in all this somewhere.