Last week I received this text message from my friend Maegan:
"I left Shadow alone for 1 hour and she ate a whole loaf of Amish bread and then tried to eat 3 raw potatoes and a can of Pringles!"
I should back up. I don't think I've mentioned my friends Maegan and Kurt or their dog, Shadow. I met them (actually I met Kurt first) at our apartment complex in Charleston, SC. They had just gotten Shadow at Pet Helpers. Shadow is gorgeous. She's half shepherd, half husky. It took Rocky all of about ten seconds to fall in love with her and she's been his "girlfriend" ever since. It's awesome. They're about the same size and they get along really well. When we were living in Charleston, we saw each other pretty much every day. They moved to Maryland last year and I followed them about a year later.
Anyway, Shadow is the better behaved of the two. She can actually be left alone without being put up and away from the kitchen. Or at least she could. Rocky has always been the bad one. The one with the funny stories and the diarrhea. So you can imagine my utter delight when I received the above text message. I was not supportive at all and I actually encouraged Shadow to try harder to get the Pringles can open.
This whole incident got me thinking about everything Rocky has eaten. I've decided to start a list. I'm sure there's no way I can remember everything he's eaten, but I'm going to try.
Here goes nothing:
- my paycheck: he got this out of my lab jacket
- a pound of DRY pasta
- a tin full of treats: he opened the tin himself
- an entire bag of caramel candies, sans the wrappers
- unsalted pumpkin seeds
- rotten blueberries: he ate these along with the pumpkin seeds
- a box of Triscuits that he got down from the back of the stove
- a box of Lucky Charms off of the top of the refrigerator
- 2 pounds of meat, cheese and Hunt's tomato paste: He ate this out of a crock pot. He got the crock pot down off of the counter then preceded to help himself and destroyed the crock pot in the process.
- a half of can of queso dip: he unscrewed the top off of the can
I KNOW there's more and I just can't think of them all, so I welcome any comments from anyone who remembers something I don't. I plan to keep adding to this list as I'm sure it will grow.
Okay, Mimi wants to break up with Rocky due to his "romance" with Shadow. I could add something to list of things that Rocky has eaten. :-)
ReplyDeleteyou forgot the bag of raw bread ingredients....basically flour, milk, and sugar that had been growing yeast for 10 days.
ReplyDeleteKurt-I realized that right after I posted this. I have a couple of things I need to add.
ReplyDeleteLisa-Add away!! I'm sure you can remember things I don't and Rocky broke up with Mimi a long time ago. Said he was tired of her playing hard to get.