Day 62
I’m busy. To put it mildly. However, I’m not as busy as some people I know. I’m feeling more scattered, frantic-busy than productive and having a lot of things going on busy … if that makes any sense.
Lately I’m too busy to notice the time (and for some reason this year’s time change has me all whacked out!) and I’ve forgotten to feed the animals – again.
I’m late with dinner and the dogs are (ahem) hounding me. It doesn’t matter if they ate breakfast just before noon … if at 6:00 p.m. and dinner is not served they are ready to chew my leg off if given the opportunity. Well, at least one of them. Mobes is sound asleep next to me having given up the begging, Dori is in the dog bed under my desk licking her leg, Gert is up on her perch overlooking the front yard. Yosh, my old lady, is the one I can hear howling … her version of the dinner bell.
Funny, how they want to eat on a regular basis.
Years ago – which now seems like eons ago or from another lifetime or a recollection from some movie I once viewed … I was in Chicago with the kids for a summertime visit at my folks’ home.
Tim called and sometime during our conversation he mentioned that the cats just would not leave him alone. They were mewing and following him around and sitting next to him staring him down and giving him the “eyeball treatment” … (if you have a cat you know what I mean). He didn’t know what was going on and I finally asked him what he was feeding them … and there was absolute SILENCE on the other end of the line.
And then a quasi question-statement from him about “them having to be fed on a regular basis.” Gee, ya think, hon?! Who knew?
Good thing I had the kids with me! We all had a good laugh and years later we still laugh over that the pets (and children) have to be fed on a regular basis. Sigh. Poor Tim … he was so clueless at times (part of his endearing nature).
Feeding animals … I had this conversation with my little neighbors the other day. I was invited to dinner and we were eating green beans and I mentioned that the dogs had warmed up frozen green beans as part of their breakfast that day. I had leftovers from the night before and I mixed them in with their regular dog food. Gertie loves veggies. She sucked those beans down like noodles!
Gert is also my tomato thief. The last few years I had to put a little fence around my tomato plants … not to keep out deer … but to keep out the veggie-eating Pug! She would eat the tomatoes off the plants whenever possible. If she could reach them – she’d eat them! Same thing with peppers. She is definitely a veggie-hound!
I recently started giving the cats baby food. Per my little neighbor (who went to cat camp over break) turkey and gravy is really yummy and good for cats. So, Oscar and Henry have been getting some of that lately … and they do like it. Henry has always been a gravy fan.
Before they start gnawing on me I’m off to make dinner for the animals … after all, they do have to eat on a regular basis.