I had just spend a very long time in the kitchen, making some goat curry for our 9 month old.
I became engrossed in a particularly exciting episode of Judge Judy, and did not notice that our teacup Chihuahua had climbed upon the kitchen table and stuck her little nose into my child's food! She ate almost the whole bowl! Now her face is bright yellow from the tumeric powder, and its been that way for a week.
I was so steamed, let me tell you, and from previous experiences, I knew I would have to break out the doggie diapers and the duct tape, which I did, but left for my wife to clean up, cause she is better at this kind of thing, having been a nurse at some point prior to our marriage. But I am getting off topic, no flames please, we have discussed this many times, and she agrees, especially after what happened the last time.
Anyways, she was telling me it was a good thing the dog had gotten into our daughters curry, instead of hers or mine, since we use only 1/2 as much red hot chili powder in deference to our daughter's age and size, so it is quite mild.
This got me thinking! What if I teach the dog a real lesson, a life lesson, like an old Aesop's fable that even a pea sized canine brain could process?
What if I make a big tasty bowl of curry, but with 2xs the amount of red hot chili powder, and leave it on the table, and pretend not to be looking, but that will be a trick, cause I will probably use my cam and put this on YouTube with narration?
Then, the dog, thru her own devices, will learn a powerful, mighty lesson about eating food off the table! Plus, I will hide her water bowl for a couple hours to let it sink in, giving her time to confront the gravity of her error!
As you can see, I have put alot of thot into this, but my wife, who has hidden treasures of wisdom that I have learned the hard way to take seriously, is not so sure. She thinks the dog is acting within normal animal parameters, and it is our responsibility to keep the dog and the human food separate.
To which I replied, if the dog learns to act this way with impunity, there is no telling what she will do next!
To drive in my point, right before we started eating this evening after we had all filled our plates, I secretly dialed the house phone from the cell in my pocket, and began to feed our daughter some steak.
My wife went into the other room to answer the phone, and I disguised my voice and told her I was police informing that our van was on fire! She of course ran outside to look, and quick as a hare I scooped up the dog and placed her nose right in my wife's plate, then went outside to join my wife, and asked what was wrong.
I had hung up, and she was a bit perturbed at the pranksters, probably kids in their neighborhood, yes
and then got even more perturbed when she saw the dog eating up her big juicy steak on the table!
Unfortunately, even this did not cause her to come to complete agreement with my plan to "whisper" the dog into proper dog behavior, but she did agree that we could Ask Yahoo! and get some expert advice. I told her this was a good plan,and that I would forward all the responses to her.
So what do you think, am I on the right track here, or what?
To those who say, it might hurt the dog, my wife brought this up, and my thinking was, better this happens in a controlled environment, than for her to eat something really bad for dogs, like chocolate brownies, which will kill her, as chocolate is deadly to dogs.
I have already had to shoo her away a couple times from eating the brownies!
I became engrossed in a particularly exciting episode of Judge Judy, and did not notice that our teacup Chihuahua had climbed upon the kitchen table and stuck her little nose into my child's food! She ate almost the whole bowl! Now her face is bright yellow from the tumeric powder, and its been that way for a week.
I was so steamed, let me tell you, and from previous experiences, I knew I would have to break out the doggie diapers and the duct tape, which I did, but left for my wife to clean up, cause she is better at this kind of thing, having been a nurse at some point prior to our marriage. But I am getting off topic, no flames please, we have discussed this many times, and she agrees, especially after what happened the last time.
Anyways, she was telling me it was a good thing the dog had gotten into our daughters curry, instead of hers or mine, since we use only 1/2 as much red hot chili powder in deference to our daughter's age and size, so it is quite mild.
This got me thinking! What if I teach the dog a real lesson, a life lesson, like an old Aesop's fable that even a pea sized canine brain could process?
What if I make a big tasty bowl of curry, but with 2xs the amount of red hot chili powder, and leave it on the table, and pretend not to be looking, but that will be a trick, cause I will probably use my cam and put this on YouTube with narration?
Then, the dog, thru her own devices, will learn a powerful, mighty lesson about eating food off the table! Plus, I will hide her water bowl for a couple hours to let it sink in, giving her time to confront the gravity of her error!
As you can see, I have put alot of thot into this, but my wife, who has hidden treasures of wisdom that I have learned the hard way to take seriously, is not so sure. She thinks the dog is acting within normal animal parameters, and it is our responsibility to keep the dog and the human food separate.
To which I replied, if the dog learns to act this way with impunity, there is no telling what she will do next!
To drive in my point, right before we started eating this evening after we had all filled our plates, I secretly dialed the house phone from the cell in my pocket, and began to feed our daughter some steak.
My wife went into the other room to answer the phone, and I disguised my voice and told her I was police informing that our van was on fire! She of course ran outside to look, and quick as a hare I scooped up the dog and placed her nose right in my wife's plate, then went outside to join my wife, and asked what was wrong.
I had hung up, and she was a bit perturbed at the pranksters, probably kids in their neighborhood, yes
and then got even more perturbed when she saw the dog eating up her big juicy steak on the table!Unfortunately, even this did not cause her to come to complete agreement with my plan to "whisper" the dog into proper dog behavior, but she did agree that we could Ask Yahoo! and get some expert advice. I told her this was a good plan,and that I would forward all the responses to her.
So what do you think, am I on the right track here, or what?
To those who say, it might hurt the dog, my wife brought this up, and my thinking was, better this happens in a controlled environment, than for her to eat something really bad for dogs, like chocolate brownies, which will kill her, as chocolate is deadly to dogs.
I have already had to shoo her away a couple times from eating the brownies!