Buckles by David Gilbert for October 19, 2022

C’mon Buckles, the dry food is good for your teeth…..

I thought he was protecting his food!

I love the precious Buckles in the last panel , but I’m not so sure about the first three ?

We rarely fed our dogs a wet food, they only got dry. As noted above, a dog can and will revert to a primal state out of provocation or necessity.

I didn’t see that coming.

Come on, Buckles, what’s wrong with dry dog food? The dogs that I used to own were fed dry dog food.

All those teeth can be deceptive. Hard food could cause a little pain to intense pain for some dogs.

We fed our dog a mixture of both wet and dry dog food. We’d give her a little bit of Cesar’s or Hill’s Science Diet canned food for breakfast and dinner, and since she was a “grazer” rather than a “gobbler”, she had a bowl of dry kibble available 24/7 whenever she felt a little hungry in-between. Sometimes she’d eat the whole bowl before the end of the day; other times she wouldn’t touch it at all. She was very good at regulating her own food intake and wasn’t fat a single day in her whole 9 lb., 17 years of life.

As for food guarding, she never EVER did that. We could touch her, put our hands near, or even IN, her bowl while she was eating and she never once growled or tried to bite us. We thought she was pretty darn perfect and if we could have had our pick of any dog in the entire world, it would have been impossible to have done any better than her! ♥

“Hiss”? I’ve never heard a dog hiss. Our puddies get both wet and dry food…some prefer one or the other.

Honestly, I’d be grateful to have Lima beans, since Lima shut down after WWII. Baldwin beans are also a nice treat, but Mason beans are such a rarity nowadays. There’s only one producer left! There were two, originally, but one of them was scrapped for the war effort, and…wait, am I still talking about beans? Nope. History buffs, do your stuffs!