Our dog is Nuts!!

Dan has been reading up on dogs this past week. One of the things he read was how dogs shouldn't be fed from plastic bowls because the plastic taste can penetrate into the food. Being the good dog owners that we are, we went to the pet store and bought two new aluminum bowls, throwing the plastic ones in the trash cans.

This morning when Dan got up with Butch he put the dog food in the shiny new bowl and then came back to bed. As we were lying there (at 5:00 am) we heard something coming from the garage. Dan went out and found Butch standing there staring at his food bowl. Not wanting the dog to get the better of us, he came in the house, leaving Butch to figure out that the food is the same, the bowl is just different.

As soon as the garage door shut, Butch started barking. Then the barking turned to whining, then the whining turned into crying. And yes, Dan did go outside and fish the plastic bowl out of the garbage. Once the food was transferred to the "bad" bowl Butch was a happy dog again.

As of today these are a few of Butch's quirks:
Hides under the bed when there is thunder or lightning

Won't walk on the kitchen floor

Runs away when I get baking sheets out of the cupboard

Jumps when the phone rings

Won't walk across the basement floor by himself - if he is in the TV room he'll stay there until we walk him safely across the basement