Foot Bowl

My weekday morning routine has essentially been the same since junior high school. I get up at least an hour before I leave for work so that I have enough time to relax and read my morning paper over coffee while watching the morning news. After that, I head out for work where I arrive about a half hour early so that I can peruse some blogs, and sometimes prepare an entry for Athenamama.

All that time in the morning sometimes allows for other activities, and this morning in between the news, the newspaper, and my coffee, I took some pictures of Jackie, Angel, Thalia, and Ebby for today's post. Unfortunately I forgot to bring the camera with me to work, so now I can't share these wonderful photos I took of my lovely pets!

Fortunately, I took a few pictures of Jackie eating her dinner the other day and had those on my flash drive. So, at least I have those to work with.

Now, you might be saying to yourself, "Jeeze, doesn't this guy get it that we can only read about his dogs eating their dinner/breakfast only so many times?" I know, I post a lot of pictures of my dogs with their food, but these pictures are different! You see, Jackie and Angel's dinner bowls are located in the kitchen area of our new house, and the floor their is a smooth laminate. If you have ever tried to eat your dinner out of a bowl on the floor using only your mouth you know your dinner bowl has a tendency to scoot across the floor. Jackie has developed a solution to that problem...

Jackie never, ever leaves any food behind in her bowl. She licks it clean. She also makes sure Angel's bowl is clean. But when she licks a bowl like this, it scoots across the floor even worse than when she is just eating out of it. So, she figured out a way to keep it in one place. See what she did here? She put her little foot inside the bowl to hold it in place! Isn't she the smartest dog you have ever seen? Of course I can't have pictures of Jackie without including her big brother Angel, so here is a picture of Papa taken a week or so ago. Papa is getting groomed this weekend, so expect to see some pictures of him looking less like an over-fed little bear, and more like a skinny little white dog here pretty soon.

Well, next week, or maybe even earlier, I will post the pictures I took this morning. Until then, please go check out the Carnival of the Dogs at Mickey's Musings, and the Friday Ark at The Modulator for more interesting animals.

Posted by Jeff at January 12, 2007 7:18 AM