Half Full by Maria Scrivan for June 29, 2022

Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy? You look so fetching!

Running errands with my dog in the car and precisely at 5:00PM, her dinner time, she just starts staring at me without blinking. So I’m in traffic, stopped at a crowded intersection, explaining that she gets dinner after errands. I got a few stares from adjacent drivers!

This must be Feed Your Dog Day or something- Harry Bliss did a similar joke today.

It was full thirty seconds ago.

Dear Diary…?? Better still writing ‘Dear Abby’

Dear Diary? you need to be contacting animal abuse!!!

The diary is a single sheet of paper?

Cats are like “It’s one minute to feeding time and still no food?”

Everyday Tigger wakes me at the same time…and sits and stares at me when it’s treat time…lol

That dog has been hanging out with cats too much.

It took a lot of hospital visits with my dog for her to learn that when we are working, she just might eat late that day. Otherwise, at home, she leans on me about 15 minutes before dinner. Just in case. For snack time, I have Alexa announce it and there are no confusions there. Some dogs (like mine) take time for meals and snacks very, very seriously.

Now 2 minutes past…now 3 minutes past…

My cats are the same way! They jump on my desk like they’re starving!!

Normally, I give the dog a snack and go upstairs at 8:00 p.m. This one’s not super-accurate. Some time from 7:45 to 8:05, she will come and tell me it’s time to go. That is so cute!