Irony?

[JoanneF]

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This morning on our walk, Timber found half a pizza and grabbed a huge slice before I could stop him. And NOTHING was going to beat that as a swap.

So, he had it - it wasn't worth the fight to get it off him.

This afternoon, he has just had the healthiest, firmest poo in ages.

Do I need to make pizza a staple? Or, more seriously, could it be because he didn't have lunch? I don't want him to drop weight but his poo is softer than I'd really like, and I know that can be due to overfeeding. I didn't think I was, based on weight/body condition, but maybe ...

Thoughts?

 

[Rinkydinkydo]

My old girl gets some pizza a couple of times a week. Just the small ones from the co op with some extra mature cheddar sprinkled on top. She loves it and her poos are bang on.

 

[JoanneF]

Timber gets a piece of our pizza crust but I don't mind so much when I give it - it's the scavenging that is the problem.

 

[JudyN]

One of the first decent poos Jasper did was when he found a sun-dried rabbit, on a beach of all places, and ate the lot. It did come out fur-coated though.

Maybe the pizza slowed down transit time? I don't suppose it had sweetcorn on?

 

[JoanneF]

No sweetcorn!

I wonder ...

 

[Hemlock]

This is an interesting scientific debate! We don't like pizza so our dogs have never had it. We can be the 'control' experiment.

How sensible not to make it into a dispute, JoanneF. Of course we have to remove dangerous things from them, but we can choose our 'fights'. One of our terriers ate half a French loaf she found left behind by picnickers. It was like watching a python swallowing a deer.

 

[JoanneF]

There was no point in turning it into an issue @Hemlock.

A few days ago he found a cooked chicken bone and that did have to be removed (his drop is not reliable enough to risk). But I think he knows that if I mean business, I really mean it. So letting him have his pizza prize somehow reinforces that?

 

[JudyN]

Yes - if he doesn't know you disaprove, he won't realise that he can do what he wants regardless of your opinion