INTERVENTION!!

We need to have an intervention for Mr. Booker. Mr. B seems to have become a bit bulimic since a visit to the vets office early this summer where she informed him he was becoming a bit chunky.

A little history... Booker was a stray who was picked up on the streets and brought to the pound. He was rescued by the local ASPCA and then adopted by us when he was around 6-7 months old. He started out as a purge eater - he would eat every kernel of food in the bowl all at once and then promptly vomit it all up. The vet said it was probably from having lived on the street and not having regular meals waiting for him. She suggested we feed him in small amounts many times a day. We called it first breakfast, second breakfast, third breakfast, first dinner, etc... (That's how Hobbits eat isn't it?).

Eventually Mr. B became a grazer and ate a few bites here and there without the regular vomiting. We thought that adding the puppy might bring back the binge and purge eating, but it hasn't - until this recent trip to the vet.

Booker has become a huge fat pig of a dog. We have to pull him off the food dishes so the puppy can get a few bites before Book vacuums up all the food (and then throws it up). When he hears the tinkle of food hitting the aluminum dish, he'll comes out of a dead sleep and lumber over to fill up. When the puppy decides to eat, Booker will sneak over (yes, sneak! We warn him not to if he starts to get up an we see it, so he sneaks.) and shoulder the puppy out of his way so he can eat it all.

The moral of the story? If you are a vet, don't tell the dogs they are getting a bit chunky. It gives them a complex.