“Is this all you have for me? I’d like to speak to your manager.”Most of the pups
“Is this all you have for me? I’d like to speak to your manager.”Most of the pups on the back roads of Newberg, Oregon are grateful for the treats that I bring, but there are a few who can be more than a bit entitled and hard to please. Case in point: this choosy chihuahua who chooses only the choicest chunks of chuck, chops and chicken to chew upon. Observe the manner in which my generous offering of not one but two delicious pork flavored milk bones has been utterly rejected with the sneering disdain that can only come from the sort of refined and distinguished palate that yours truly is unworthy of feeding. This fastidious four-legged connoisseur of fine and fancy dining believes that by ignoring my initial donation, I will be forced to dig deep in the biscuit box for the specific flavor of biscuits that can meet her lofty standards. Only *after* I have paid tribute with an offering that she deems to be worthy will I be granted permission to deliver her human’s package and then depart the premises.But there appears to be some sort of a discrepancy in her dietary demands. You see, this is the second time I have delivered to her home this week and the second time in which my initial offering was rejected. Yet the two inferior biscuits I tossed out yesterday…the ones she ignored with utter contempt…are now nowhere to be seen. What could have possibly happened to them? Where did they go? There are no other dogs here to eat them, yet they have disappeared. How could this be? My mind races, trying to wrap itself around the mystery of the missing biscuits, until the sordid truth becomes clear; I have been played. This duplicitous doggo is not nearly as picky as she has made out to be, she simply allows me to *think* she is so that I will offer additional biscuits in a futile attempt to please her. Then when I have departed, she can clean up on the perfectly acceptable treats that she pretended to despise! Some might consider her behavior to be cheating, but all tactics are fair in the quest to extract goodies from the Unlimited Puppy Snacks truck!
By Scott Hodges
