Hello, Skootr here. My mom bought me a new bowl last week because she is worried I eat too fast and will get something called "Bloat" which is apparently Very Bad. (My mom worries about EVERYTHING). I, Skootr, DO NOT LIKE this new bowl. It makes eating hard work and I cannot eat my whole half can of food in 30 seconds or less like I used to! FAIL.
Here you can see my new evil bowl: http://www.brake-fast.net/
I growl at the bowl the whole time I am eating from it but it refuses to retract its silly bowl bumps and it does not help that mom laffs at me while I am in such terrible distress. MEAN MOMMY.
What terrible torments will she think of next? Bad enough she gave me a pedicure this weekend, too. POOR ME!
I know you are probably all feeling very sorry for my poor small brown handsome self right now. Quite right, too. Luckily I am also very smart and know how to fix this! You will feel much better if you send me large amounts of sympathy HAM. And maybe a normal bowl too.
xoxo,
Skootr
:bkiss: Dear, dear Skootr:
Honey, I share your pain, I feel your angst. Auntie Karen has the same liberal, activist attitude towards my dinner. I mean what business is it of hoomans if we eat in 12 seconds flat? Whose dinner is it anyway? Do I complain if she eats perfectly good chicken with a knife and fork?
She did the same thing to me, putting a small can in the middle of my bowl, and I had to keep pushing that thing out of my way to eat! Now I get to eat like the rest of the boys, although I do get fed last and finish first.
Love and kisses - Ima :hkiss:
P.S. No ham here - Auntie Karen says, "No dead pigs" at her house.
LOL! Penny has the same bowl! I'm not sure it really slows her down all that much :verdict:
Dear Ima,
Thank you for the comiseration! Why must our humans judge our way of living? You are right - we do not look down upon them for eating their food in an unneccesarily complicated fashion! (Well, I don't look DOWN on many things, except grass and carpeting and very short bugs. Maybe squirrels, as long as they're not up on their hind legs. Anyway.)
Your Auntie Karen sounds diabolically clever! A small can, eh? That must have been very hard work, indeed; and I admire you for rising to - and above - the challenge! You said you get to eat like the rest of the boys now - has the Can of Interference been banished from your bowl?
xoxo,
Skootr
Skooter, after seeing this bowl, we agree with you......mean mommy and poor Skooter! Try our trick, iffen we don't like something, we take our nose and tip the dish over or take our footies and flip the bowl over.......then the food is spilled all over the floor! Much easier to eat then! We'll try to sneak some ham, iffen Mom gets any, and send it off to you. Sarge & Duggie
tee hee. Didja see the doggie on the link--love his expression.
Skooter, your mommy is doin' right by ya.
Fin Says: I don eet my foods fast, there is too much other fun stuffs goings on! I eet a little bite, then run to mommy to make sure she still loves me, then i eats a bit more and go find the cat just in cases she is plotting about my foods.. Then maybe ill hasve a little more, but if i hear anything i goes finds it.
But i feel your yuckies on the pedicure, i got one too! My mommy even files them because she tortures PEOPLE and gives them pedis and it bugs her if she doesn't...yuck.
P.S No ham...
Penny! I am super-impressed that you have triumphed over the Evil Bumpy Bowl!
xoxo,
Skootr
Sarge and Duggie! That is a brilliant plan! You are clearly the cleverest of Dachsies. I am going to try this plan immediately! Well, by 'immediately' I mean 'when Mom feeds me next'.
Cheers!
Skootr
p.s. Thank you for the possible FUTURE HAM!
Leslie - yes I did! So did my mom - and it cracked her up too!
xoxo,
Skootr
oh honey.....that is so sad.... your handsome brown sweet self should practice tumping the bowl over and all the food will go over the floor and then you can hoover it :2funny:
Seriously, mommy just doesn't want you to blow up like a balloon and be miserable... :comfort:
Barb - what a great idea! Sarge and Duggie also suggested this. So now there are three votes for spilling and then hoovering my food! I love hoovering food. It is what I do best. Well, that and nap. And chase squirrels. And bark real loud. Also look cute. I am great at looking cute.
I try and bite the bumps in my bowl too but that's mighty hard to do with almost no teeth. It is HARD being me.
xoxo,
Skootr
Dude....you are so right!! Yer mama's mean for making you eat outta dat ebil bowl. I like Sarge and Duggie's idea. Good Luck buddy!!
:heart: Porky Pie
Ha! Thank you Porky Pie - I knew I was being OPPRESSED UNFAIRLY! I made Mom take me on a nice long walk at lunch today and feed me bites of the turkey from her sammich to make it up to me. We Wieners have got to stand up for our rights, after all!
xoxo,
Skootr
Max P. here - Skootr - your have the bestest mommy (next to mine) in the whole big world. The first time I metted her at Auntie Dee Dee's she played ball wit me for hours. Then when she came to bizit us, she played ball wit me for hours. She is really kewl!!!! I am sure that the bowl is just to make sure you don't get sick or nuttin'. I would send you Ham, but it just disappears before mom can put it in a box. Don't know what happens to it! -Your pal, Max
WEz with you skooter dat is an efil thing to do, but tipping it might be da answer...............we'd like to send ham, but it sorta disappears before da parcel gets sent
Da Gang
Oh wow - are you the famous Max that does "cute puppy" and can subdue dangerous styrofoam blocks in mere seconds flat? My mom has told me all about you and how brave and handsome you are and how much you reminded her of her beloved Sparky-angel. She also has very nice things to say about your mom and how happy she is to have metted her at Auntie DD's. (Aw, remember the Bow Wows?) It is so excellent to talk to you!
Thank you for offering to send me HAM if you could. I don't know where it disappears either; but HAM has a way of magically doing that around us Dachshies, doesn't it?
Do you still like to play ball? I'd like to play ball, but I cannot hold one in my mouth really, anymore, due to the ALMOST NO TEETH thing. WOE. Luckily I have some nice flat squeaky toys that I can gum to my little heart's content.
Give lots of love and puppy kisses to your Momma for me, Mr. Max!
xoxo,
Skootr
Patches here my momma bought me one of those bowls does not bother me,I do not think I'm as hungry when i eat out of the bowl.Patches
Hewwo Skootr's Mom. 'Member me, da Maddewoo? Here's my take on da bumpy bowl. When dere is two long dawgs in da hoose, fud must be consooomed at lightening speed for fear the faster eater will butt into the slower dawg's dish and hep themselves. I.....ahem.....do dis to Bonnie all da time but mommy tells me "no." Mommy's a party pooper. She thinks Bonnie will bite my snoot off or sumptin'. Ha! Bonnie let's me hep myself. She likes me. Anyway, we has only kibbo to eat, since weez gots all our teefs around here. We DO chew and I tink dat makes Mommy happy. When Dolly was here, she rarely chews and could eat all her dinner in 10 seconds flat. Papa said she had a cast iron tummy. So da moral of da stowwy......no bumpy dish heah. Kisses to you, sweet Scoot man.
:heart: Madison
dis is Parker: perhaps your momma should eat out of dat bumpy dish, see how she likes it! Maybe you could hide it somewheres. Closets are good places for hiding stuff, an in da cushions of da couch.
I eats real slow, I am too busys playing and doin my "security" jobs. I'ms a hard workin little doxie. Sometimes my momma has to give me special tweets so I don't starvs to death.
Quote from: peterparker on May 28, 2009, 06:10:39 AM
perhaps your momma should eat out of dat bumpy dish, see how she likes it! Maybe you could hide it somewheres. Closets are good places for hiding stuff, an in da cushions of da couch.
I eats real slow, I am too busys playing and doin my "security" jobs. I'ms a hard workin little doxie. Sometimes my momma has to give me special tweets so I don't starvs to death.
Parker, you're right! I'd like to see my mom try and eat her Cookie Crisp cereal out of my bumpy bowl. Ha! I'd try to hide the bumpy bowl, but it's awfully hard to pick stuff up anymore being as dentally compromised as I am. *sniffle* But I could try to push it someplace with my snoot...hm....
It's a good job your mommy takes care of you with special treats since you're such a hardworking pupper! Doing "security" is a big job!
Quote from: Madderoos Mom on May 27, 2009, 11:05:03 PM
Hewwo Skootr's Mom. 'Member me, da Maddewoo? Here's my take on da bumpy bowl. When dere is two long dawgs in da hoose, fud must be consooomed at lightening speed for fear the faster eater will butt into the slower dawg's dish and hep themselves. I.....ahem.....do dis to Bonnie all da time but mommy tells me "no." Mommy's a party pooper. She thinks Bonnie will bite my snoot off or sumptin'. Ha! Bonnie let's me hep myself. She likes me. Anyway, we has only kibbo to eat, since weez gots all our teefs around here. We DO chew and I tink dat makes Mommy happy. When Dolly was here, she rarely chews and could eat all her dinner in 10 seconds flat. Papa said she had a cast iron tummy. So da moral of da stowwy......no bumpy dish heah. Kisses to you, sweet Scoot man.
:heart: Madison
Madderroo! How could I forget you? :heart:
I am glad that you and Bonnie are such good friends and she shares her kibblefood with you! And that you are not subjected to bumpy dishes!
*smooches right back*
Skootr
Patches! I am happy to hear you like your bumpy bowl!
Cheers,
Skootr
We've been looking for a bowl like this. I don't believe an industrial shop-vac could go through food as fast as Sam. So I looked at the web site. Plastic bowls are out - Sam made his first bowl into a chew toy and we found shreds of plastic everywhere. But $30 for a bowl. Ouch! Today Sam got his food surrounding a can of tuna in his bowl. It slowed him down some - but the food still disappeared in record time. I don't know whether he has a tongue or a tentacle!
Quote from: Rich on May 28, 2009, 11:58:08 AM
We've been looking for a bowl like this. I don't believe an industrial shop-vac could go through food as fast as Sam. So I looked at the web site. Plastic bowls are out - Sam made his first bowl into a chew toy and we found shreds of plastic everywhere. But $30 for a bowl. Ouch! Today Sam got his food surrounding a can of tuna in his bowl. It slowed him down some - but the food still disappeared in record time. I don't know whether he has a tongue or a tentacle!
Rich, the little shop by my house where I bought my bowl for Scooter has sales occasionally. Would you like me to keep an eye out for the metal bowl for you? If it goes on clearance I would be happy to pick one up for you and send it your way...
And your shop-vac comparison is very apt. Scooter used to inhale his food with a speed that bordered on downright ALARMING.
Thanks for the offer, Noel. The tuna can seems to be working fairly well but I will keep you in mind if I think we have to gear down any farther.
You're very welcome! I checked out eBay as well - unfortunately, most of the Brake Fast bowls there had set prices which were the same or more than the one you saw; though one bowl's seller was accepting "Best Offer" for his.
Whatever happened to good old auctions? FAIL, EBAY.
Anyhow, good luck with the tuna can and feel free to email me if you do want me to keep a vigilant eye out for a bargain on your bowl!
(Scooter: YOU CAN HAVE MINE)