Hello, hello! How’s it going? Today is trucking along smoothly over here.
After barre and breakfast, I published my morning blog post, caught up on some emails and headed out to get this little stinker some food.
Sadie eats Orijen dog food and we often feed her large-breed puppy food because she’s so dang scrawny. Vizslas as a breed are very lean dogs and Sadie has access to food 24-hours a day (she’s a free-feeder), but she has always been a feast or famine-type creature and will eat a bunch one day and then nibble sporadically the next. Our vet(s) have never been concerned, but one suggested giving her puppy food as an adult, so we filter it in every other time we buy her food.
The only time Sadie becomes extremely interested in her food is when other dogs are around. Then her food quickly becomes the most delicious thing ever and her dominance is asserted. It’s kind of amusing (and unexpected) to see since she typically rolls over and pees a little when she meets other dogs on our walks together. Alpha Sadie comes out in our house around her food bowl and “her couch” (aka the couch we always snuggle on with her).
After picking up some grub for Sadie, I stopped into Earth Fare because I needed to buy a few ingredients for a freelance recipe development project.
I couldn’t leave without grabbing a snack for the road and polished off a small bag of Krave teriyaki pork jerky on the car ride home.
I first sampled Krave jerky at Wanderlust this summer and have loved every single flavor I’ve tried to date.
Once I made it home, I took Sadie out on a quick lunchtime walk around the neighborhood before working in the kitchen on a project, writing on my laptop and snapping some photos.
Lunch
Eventually it was time for lunch and I made myself a spinach salad topped with chopped broccoli, sliced ham and lots of feta cheese.
The feta cheese was fantastic but the tub of “watery cheese” in the fridge totally grosses out Ryan.
Lunch did a semi-decent job of keeping me full, but I found myself feeling rather snacky about an hour later, so I put together a small snack plate with Almond Nut Thins, The Laughing Cow creamy Swiss cheese and cracked pepper.
Apparently I’m craving lots of ham and cheese today!
Enjoy your afternoon!
Question of the Afternoon
- Pet owners: Are your pets big eaters or do they have somewhat strange eating habits like Sadie?
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My little puppy is a big eater! He eats so fast most the time like someone is trying to steal his food, he also goes crazy when he just hears me pour the food in his bowl haha, but he is going to be a big boy so I guess it makes sense!
Our dog is a free feeder too and he has his days….some days he’ll eat his entire bowl full, and others he will eat only half of it. And sometimes he gets up in the middle of the night and eats instead of eating during the day 🙂
I have a boxer named Louie and he’s also a free feeder. If we aren’t home, he will not eat and if we haven’t eaten our human food yet, he will not eat. Mostly because he knows he’s going to get food from us and then supplements with his food after the human food has been put away. He is such a spoiled dog! When we are at my brother’s house with his two boxers he also doesn’t eat until I say “Okay Louie we are going home.” Then he bolts for their laundry room and gobbles down as much food as he can. It’s the same brand of food just chicken and rice instead of lamb and rice but apparently it’s too good to pass up!
My friends have pugs and those dogs would eat until they die, they have no self control! She only gives them a certain amount of food at certain times of the day and they have to lock up their dog food or they will get into it; crazy pugs!
My pup Henry is the same way about his food when other dogs are around! He normally eats all his food in one sitting but he is also very submissive. However, if another dog is around, he eats as if he is a prisoner being allotted 2.5 minutes for food and snaps at other dogs. I am not a huge fan of that reaction, but I do understand that a lot of dogs want to assert themselves when it comes to food.
I wish I could get as excited about anything as Princess did about breakfast. That dog enjoyed her food. Her sister liked food, but not nearly as much and would often leave half her food to eat later. Princess would wait until she walked away and then start to gobble down her breakfast too.
Looks like you’re wearing some cool leggings in the Krave photo! Where are they from!?
Reebok 🙂
Just so you know Champion Pets (the ones who make Orijen and Acana) just broke ground on their first ever US plant in Kentucky! They will be getting all of their fish same day shipped from the gulf and using all local Kentucky farmers for their meats!
Love those workout pants you’re wearing! Sadie is super cute too!
xx Maddy
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