Someone needs to pay for this crime against sanity....

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**Deadshane1**

Was grocery shopping at Farm Fresh today.

I was astounded when I got to the pet food aisle and saw

W H A T T H E H 3 L L ?

Flavored water for dogs....ONLY "2 for 3.00!", stupid me, I was simply going to use the tap.

After shaking off the bad headache and repeating to myself over and over "thatdidnthappenthatdidnthappenthatdidnthappen......" I got to the frozen food section....

Gentlemen, please help me, this IS still planet earth right? There is something wrong with this, there is something VERY VERY wrong with this.

Perhaps my dog will love me more if I buy her some bottled water and ice cream next time I'm at the store.

**warpcrafter**

Don't these people know they are selling to the owners of animals that lick their backsides and occasionally eat their own poop? Heck, my cats' favorite treat is crickets! Crickets are free!

**Ace_of_Spades**

Wow! That is definitely selling to the over-the-top dog owner (or pet owner) who treat their "little (insert name here)" as a human.

My Akita's favorite snack is sharp cheddar cheese and our new toy Yorkshire terrier (my wife and kids wanted that one) likes sesame chicken! Weird but true.

Pets are just that pets. Here in Vegas we have a shop that specializes in organic all natural food for your dog. Not dog food but people-type food (cookies, cupcakes, brownies...you get where I'm going) on top off that they have "holistic" spa treatments to pamper your pets and reduce their stress.

AoS

**Waaagh_Gonads**

My pug eats cheese and drinks milk for strong bones.

He eats icecream of the lid or stick depending on the packaging (never chocolate).

He is too fat and need to go on a diet...

**grizgrin**

Well, yeah. This is stupid. I'm sitting here on a ship right now overlooking the deepwater port of Kakinada India. There are people clustered up all over the place, thousands of them. Most of them gak in the streets, with traffic driving around them so that they don't hit the "pedestrian" (do they really count as a pedestrian at that point? what do you call them?). These people are starving to death, most of them. Everywhere you look, malnourishment, stunted growth, and diseases that a diet that doesn't involve fecal matter would cure right up. Something wrong? Yeah, it is. 10,000 years of history and they can't even feed their own population well enough to get a decent tax base going off of the second largest population on earth.

**Orlanth**

If this was a way of medicating a dog I would be all for it.

But doggy health snacks, sorry no.

**Da Boss**

Dogs get scraps from the table and whatever's left over after the hunt. They don't get feckin' ice cream sandwiches!

**Frazzled**

A fool and his money are soon partying. Rusty the Tiger drinks puddlewater and eats bugs (when that particular course is on the menu).

**reds8n**

" Rusty the Tiger" ...?

**Frazzled**

Mom's dog (Rusty) when the then five year old Genghis Connie decrees "The Tiger" shall be added, you have no choice but to obey. After all when Genghis Connie speaks, the world trembles.

**reds8n**

Aha, female tyranny, it all makes sense at last.

We're here for you.

**Da Boss**

My niece named her chicken Peanutbutterandhoney. Woe betide anyone who tries to shorten it to Peanuts.

**Frazzled**

Indeed. All hail your future ruler (and one of her enforcers)

Genghis Connie shortly before her smiting of the Tartars

**Da Boss**

Genghis Connie is a cute kid.
Her enforcer looks so Texan it hurts

!
(I know you'll take that as a compliment!)

**Frazzled**

yes and yes

**gorgon**

It really goes a lot deeper than that. Years ago I saw a segment on dog food one of those newsmagazine shows. The guy at Alpo admitted that dogs preferred more organs, etc. in the food as opposed to the "real meat" or whatever they advertise. He said that's for the owners.

So the moral is that that cheap-a$$ dog food with all the organ parts is just fine for your dog and they'll probably like it more.

Never underestimate how much we're being marketed to.

**Da Boss**

We'd a collie lived for 17 years (which is damn old for a collie) eating scraps from the table and sleeping outside in a barrel full of straw. He never even had to go to the vet. Dogs don't need pampering.

**Kilkrazy**

There is an English expression, "Fit as a butcher's dog." The butcher of course feeds his dog on the scraps and offal that he can't sell.

**Gitkikka**

So that water - does it have electrolytes?

It's what dogs crave, you know.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

My Dog is a massive spaz. He sticks his head in the Washing Machine, Woofs, then runs off terrified of the echoes. He tries to speak when he wants attention. He flips over onto his back whenever I go near. He mooches anything and everything he can possibly get away with.

But I still buy him treats, mainly Pigs Ears (tasty those) Jumbones and other assorted canine junk foods. And he loves me for it, because I am great, and he is stupid in the head.

But I wouldn't buy him this. He's an Alsatian. He has his reputation and image to maintain you know.

**Frazzled**

Pig ears and smoked cow hoofs are pretty much doggie crack. When we gave my old pit a cow hoof he would go berserk and run full speed around the yard with it until he ran into a wall or something. Rusty the Tiger will throw them at you if he's bored.

**Ace_of_Spades**

Yeah I've got this big ass horse of a dog that was bred for hunting bears. All he hunts are pigeons (he chomps on them out of the air) and doves. I can't wait until I retire and head back to God's Country (that would be Texas to the rest of y'all). A nice 150 acre ranch in the Hill Country north of San Antonio.

Then my Akita gets real food....wild hog, white tail deer, quail...there are so many wild hogs in the county (Texas has half the N. American population or roughly 6 million) that we get to hunt them everyday with no real bag limit.

So nope no foo foo crap for my dog (except cheese of course)

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Yeah, well my Harley eats anything he thinks he can get away with, and despite me having a pretty stable routine, insists on spending a very long time sniffing my coat whenever I get, before looking puzzled and forgetting what it was he was doing.

We did a Pig Roast at a party once, and duly the ears were hacked off the skull the next morning for Dogbrain. As he easily distracted with a squeaky toy, the dumbass didn't notice me coming in the house. I produce a Pigs Ear from the bag, and what does he do? Jumps up, catching me off balance. Once on the floor, despite having a Pigs Ear freely available in my hand, he pinches the bag, and proceeds to spend the next 10 minutes with it on his head trying to get to the other ear.

Yup. He is significantly stupid for a Dog, and as such, really, really does not need fortifying. I'm not sure he'd know what to do with the extra chemicals. I suspect he'd just shoot them from his eyes, being so thick that biological impossibilites are overcome with sheer Doggy faith.

**Nuclear Mekanik**

Your dog isn't slightly green or red is he Grotsnik? Sounds a little Orkoid to me!!!

**chromedog**

We don't have a dog. We had a cat, but it died (no, it wasn't called 'snowball'. It was a piebald black and white kitty that lived to the age of 23.). Dogs are too much of an attention whore for us.

My sister has two rottweillers.

One of them chews brick (male) - dumber than a box of hammers.
The other one will chew on anything smaller than her. A good thing the male is the larger of the two.