DOGS

An Old Dog Learns a New Trick

Our Yorkie-poo Discovers Geometry

Captain. photo by author.

Captain, our 14-year-old Yorkie-poo, had been eating the same brand of kibble since he was a puppy. We bought it online in gigantic sacks that were considerably larger than Captain was himself.

Captain, a small fluffy dog, weighs just 5 pounds. So each 8 pound bag of dog food lasted for many months.

Recently the company that makes Captain’s kibble went out of business. Suddenly his particular brand of chow was no longer available. We went online to try to buy up any that was still around — but other small dog owners had beat us to it.

The supply we had on hand would only last a few months.

What to do? After exhaustive research, we settled on a new brand of dog food, and ordered it. When it arrived, we put a combination of new and old kibble in Captain’s dish.

Would Captain notice? Would he care? Would he reject the new food?

What Captain did was decide that he preferred the new kibble. Very much so. In fact, it was so much tastier than the old stuff that he went through his dish, eating the new kibble and leaving the the old.

He picked it up, piece by piece. If it was New Kibble, he’d eat it. If was Old kibble, it went back in…