What My Shih Tzu Loves to Eat
I have a 2 year old Shih Tzu. His official name is Peter the Great, Conqueror of the Badlands, but we just call him Petey.
As I took Petey out this morning for his first, er, constitutional, he, as usual, tried to find some rabbit poo to eat. We have a warren of rabbits in the park behind our house, and they come into our yard regularly to eat, have babies, hang out, and poo. Petey will chase the rabbits when he sees them, unless he’s tired, but he never catches them. I’m not sure if he wants to or what he’d do if he did. And maybe it’s the excitement of those chases that has gotten him to think eating rabbit poo is the greatest treat in the world.
Before you freak out, we do try to stop him, and usually succeed. But he’ll trick us, kind of wandering around, then jamming his snout into the grass and chowing down as much as possible before we yell at him to stop. We also try to find the poo and clean it up, but it’s little pellets in our 4″ tall grass, and we don’t have the olfactory powers of one Petey Lasker.
This whole topic got me thinking about all the things Petey likes to eat. Here are some of his favorites:
- Bananas
- Peanut Butter
- Meat (okay, like all dogs)
- Carrots
- Sweet Potato Treats
- Popcorn (more than anything in the world)
- Rabbit Poo (we do what we can to stop this, but he sneaks when he can)
- Toilet Paper and Paper Towel Rolls (actually he just likes to tear them up)
- Sale Papers (not newspaper, just the shiny sale papers, just to tear them up and make a mess)
- Stuffed Toy Stuffing (he doesn’t swallow, but he works intently to get the fuzzy stuff out as quickly as possible)
- Greenies Pill Pockets (he’d eat these for dinner)
- Ham (I know this is meat, but he gets especially excited about sliced sandwich ham)
- Purina Carvers, Beef or Chicken
- Three Dog Bakery Treats (I use these most as rewards for tricks, as seen in the video, above)
- Ice (I believe it’s his main hydration source he eats so much of it)
- Flowers (we bring home fresh flowers and hold them for him to smell and he just wants to eat them)
While Petey would eat almost anything, he does NOT like dry dog food, most manufactured dry bone treats, and anything he thinks we want him to eat.
Why do I bring all this up? Good question, because I have no idea if anyone cares. But I’m sick yet again, and bored to death, so I decided to type and this is what came out.
