Music City Goldendoodles

When you think you are hungry but Mama says you have had enough

I know, not the best picture but by the time I thought that you all would find this interesting, it was too late. Too be honest, it wouldn’t have been a great picture, regardless of how it was taken, because it wouldn’t have been a picture of regurgitated dog food. Eeeww. See, that’s why I didn’t grab for my camera. But this “Eeewwww” actually represents an “aawwww”, and here’s why. Earlier today I set a brown of puppy food on the kitchen counter to soak. When I went to feed the puppies, the soaked puppy food was gone. Granted, it had been an hour or so since I set it to soak, and I had made an airport run to pick up my husband, but bowls of dog food doesn’t generally go missing. Unless you have a mama dog who is always hungry and can see on counters. After a search, I found the empty bowl with the spoon still in it!! sitting at the front door. Mystery solved. After I made a fresh batch of puppy food I took it up to the puppy room and found that mama had already taken care of things. She left a pile of regurgitated puppy food - her stolen treasure - for her puppies to eat. Unfortunately, it was outside of the puppy pen so they weren’t able to get to it, but it’s the thought that counts, lol. So there’s the story. A smart devoted (tall) mama who sacrifices her snack for her puppies. What a good girl.

Happy Labor Day! Here in puppy-land, it’s a great day for puppy chores. Pups were weighed, wormed, toenails trimmed and puppy pen cleaned. Here’s photo evidence of how everyone is growing.

2 weeks old and getting so big! Sheba is all smiles after splurging on Moon Pies and Pecan Spins this afternoon 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1 boy and 4 girls still available.

Bad Sheba! Bad dog!!! I was gone for 30 minutes this morning and someone was VERY naughty. Yesterday i stopped by the local bakery outlet and got a box of Moon Pies and a package of Pecan Twirls, among other things. When i returned home I found the Moon Pie box - still in the bag but opened - on top of a pile of pillows. (The pillows are on the floor because of a little boy - not dog.) There are crumbs and FOUR empty Moon Pie wrappers on the couch and floor. And empty Pecan Swirls package on the floor. While I can’t be certain it was Sheba, I will explain my reasoning. 1)Tessa is blind and would not be able to find the food on the counter. She might walk around with her nose in the air, dreaming of confectionery capers , but would fail at the actual snatch and grab. 2) Walker has a very low center of gravity and can barely jump on a low sitting couch. Standing on his back legs to gently remove a bag of goodies, carry them into another room and then get them out one-by-one to eat on the couch, is just not in his skill set. Also, Walker is not food motivated and is suspicious of any food, needing to stare at it before gingerly tasting it. 3) Sheba can see on the counters and thinks that obviously if she can see it, we are happy to share. If we didn’t want Sheba to have something, CLEARLY we would put it out of her reach. 4) Sheba didn’t get her chicken quarter this morning, and was reduced to eating kibble. 5) Sheba has 11 puppies who are hungry all the time. 6) Sheba doesn’t think she is a dog but does think she is a Southerner who deserves Moon Pies. So, you be the judge about which one of these doggies was a very bad dog this morning. Now I just have to explain to the human child why the special snacks that he picked out have been depleted by 2/3s.

Dinner time for Sheba’s babies