Re: The dogs dinner...

"PeterLucas" wrote

Could well be Peter is only using the term 'feeding' for when he adds
a cup or 2 of dry dog food and the rest of the time, the dog gets
other things in fairly substantial quantity but calls that a 'treat'.
Just a minor language difference there, kinda like Canada folks spell
Color wierd (grin).

Her 'treat' was having the human food meal. That was her also her feed.

Makes sense to me!

Her normal feeds (every 2 days) are either dry dog food with maybe some
pasta and veges mixed in, or raw meat such as chicken thighs, wings,
drunsticks, chicken frames, kangaroo meat etc.

That works. In nature, a dog would be happy to eat every 2 days. Something
noted overseas from my current location is a more 'nature feeding' plan but
USA folks can even freak out at less than 2 feedings a day. JUst what
they've been raised to expect is proper behavior.

In nature, a dog would be really fat and sassy healthy if they could eat all
they needed every other day. Sure, I feed *mine* 2 substantials a day and a
'lunch treat' but that's not really what nature has a canine catch in the
wild.

What we have here is a misunderstanding of the word 'treat'.

A treat for her is something that she doesn't normally have .... like
the can of whole fish cat food. For some reason, she *loves* it, but
she'll only get maybe 2 cans per month.

;-) Cash loves fish but that the one time Daisy-cat will swat him away and
say 'all mine til I'm done' and so we have this 12lb cat holding a 50lb dog
at cowering bay til she's done. Then she will saunter off and let him have
her leavings (grin).

Your meaning of the word treat would come under our word snack.

Yes.

She doesn't have snacks between feeds........ apart from a pigs ear
maybe 3 times a week.

Heheeh 3 times a week? Heck, them's a meal!

And it's Colour :-)

Drats, one of these days I'll spell it right eh?


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