"What Do I Want to Eat Today" Game

Below is one of my favorite Sections from the book "The Havanese"! This is the typical scenario of the new Puppy owner, trying to get their Havanese to eat...

Meal One: The new owner drives across town and buys the brand of dog food suggested by the breeder, which of course the puppy has been eating all his life - lets say a high-quality chicken and rice formula for the sake of argument. The owner brings it home, and adds whatever the breeder suggests for palatability - perhaps a spoonful of cottage cheese mixed in, and some cooked egg yolk. The puppy sniffs it and recoils as though the owner is trying to poison him. Won't touch it. The owner, concerned that their new darling will fall over from hypoglycemia or something, offers some cut-up cooked chicken, which the puppy dutifully eats before running off to play.

Meal Two: Owner adds some cut-up chicken to the kibble along with the egg and cottage cheese. Puppy eats the chicken, the cottage cheese, and the egg, and runs off to play. Convinced the kibble is the problem, owner drives back across town and buys the same brand in a new formula, this time lamb and rice.

Meal Three: Puppy loves the lamb and rick kibble, eats every last bit of it, but won't touch the cutup chicken, the egg, or the cottage cheese, all of which he now considers toxic waste. Puppy runs off to play.

Meal Four: Plain Lamb and Rice Kibble? You're Kidding, right I'd like some cottage cheese please.

Meal Five: This chicken and rice kibble isn't too bad, but you really don't expect me to eat this cottage cheesy junk, do you??

Meal six: More eggs, please. I don't eat kibble. And what happened to the cut-up chicken, did we run out??

Meal Seven: I don't have time to eat, sorry, I have to go play now. But it was nice of you to drive across town to buy this turkey and barley kibble - too bad I don't like it. Maybe I'll like it tommorrow, though.

(This entire scenario can take place over a forty-eight hour period, by the way) Playing "What do I want to Eat today" is a game the average Havanese can play indefinitely, and runs a close second to RunlikeHell, another game which seems to be firmly entrenched in the breed's genetic code.

So, If you don't want to play the "What do I want to Eat today Game", check back tommorrow for the conclusion....