We have Poop!

[daveon]

Anal of me I know (snigger)...  we had to take the dog back to the vet yesterday after a weekend marred by relatively explosive diahorea, and a realisation that the poor boy had lost some weight.  After confirmation that he had lost 3lbs (5% of his weight) it was determined that he didn't have Giardia again, but instead was probably intolerant to rice - which had been the suggested diet we were told to put him onto (with meat) until he got his digestive system back in order.

We were then give pescription dog food.  No, I didn't know such a thing existed.  Anyway, out for a quick walk today (1.5 miles, nothing extreme, I'll take him out again later for another couple) and we had poop, real proper dog crap.

My life is complete.  I should have taken a picture of it I am so pleased :)

Anyway, it amused me.  I might even go to the gym.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

There's nothing quite like dogs and infants to bring you to a heretofore unsuspected (and unwanted) interest in, and intimacy with, the fecal health of another living creature. I'm sure it's salutary for something or other, this earthy casualness you acquire, but also, funny.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's always fun to work out what the nursery fed the nipper at lunchtime when you've forgotten to look at their menu plans.

Oh look! Sweetcorn!

[t--m--i.livejournal.com]

Otherwise known as gold plated dog food because it costs so much!

Very soon you will find yourself (mentally) giving points out of 10 for poo, composed of marks for:

* location (ideally, a secluded spot OUTSIDE on light sand/bark chips/grass clippings, near to a poop bin - not two foot above the ground into your neighbour's holly bush, as they come home)
* consistency (neither porridge splop nor bullets)
* placement (like spinning figure skaters, dogs should STAY IN ONE SPOT when crapping, not creep along while in progress)
* contents (marks deducted for: grass, bits of toys - the dogs or your own! - and anything that waves back at you)
* timing (marks deducted both for over-eagerness - 3am is NOT A GOOD TIME - and tardiness - but added for promptness - the ability to produce five minutes into the walk is great when the weather sucks)
* colour (yellow, green, black and red are all BAD)
and
* clean production (no dingleberries)

Of course then there is the "freestyle" competition, where we have such flamboyant productions as "pooping on another dog's head", "the gross-out" and "so that's who ate that bag of muesli that disappeared".

[syllopsium.livejournal.com]

im surprised youre surprised about prescription dog food existing; at least in the cat world (dogs pteuii) there is cat food not only for kittens, cats and senior cats but different breeds, shiny coats, for teeth etc
Prescription food is not a big shock :)
On a completely unrelated note as this is posted from a nokia e51 with predictive text does anyone actually add punctuation to the inbuilt dictionary?