Saturday, January 10, 2015

Squirrel Wants To Eat My Fiddle!



Oh, fiddle fuddle!  Help, Ziva!  Some squirrel wants to devour my violin!

These are canine cookies, intended for Ziva's consumption.  If you've ever shopped for pet food, no doubt you've noticed how treats (and even main courses) are designed to please human aesthetic sensibilities.  This is hardly surprising, as we do the buying, but it can sometimes make things amusing for us, and in the case of commercial items, more expensive, because the manufacturers can get away with it, having hooked us.

These two delicacies were home-made gifts from friends.  One is a violinist colleague of mine, and the other has a dear old dog, Alexa, who when young was as interested in chasing squirrels as our Ziva now is.


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4 comments:

  1. Well, if Ziva feels compelled to chew on either violin or squirrel, better that it be of this variety, no?

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    1. Very good point! Ziva likes carrots, and today she showed that she even likes artichoke hearts. Broad tastes in food. It's fortunate that she doesn't chase after my violin the way she goes after squirrels. Lots of momentum...she may be under 40 lbs, but kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity...the violin wouldn't stand a chance!

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  2. Delicious looking but I can't imagine that Ziva is much of a ˈkāˌnīneˈsər.

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    1. I think I'm missing a pun or something? Ziva likes her treats, but I try to limit them...

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