We heard that Jasper was the pick of the litter and that he had a few peculiarities.
Many Labradoodles, we understand, walk to the beat of their own drummer.
Let’s take his eating style for starters.
We were instructed to take a third of a cup and poor it into a plastic bottle. Step two is to place it on the carpet in the den. Step three is watch in amusement as he knocks the bottle over and then kicks or noses it in a helicopter blade fashion until six or seven pellets exit and go flying onto the carpet.
Voila!
Breakfast is served.
I have, for a number of years, wanted to shed 10-15 pounds of unnecessary weight.
Sally, after seeing the ingenuity of Jasper and his food, decided to try it with me.
When I came downstairs for breakfast today, there were no pancakes dripping with maple syrup…no eggs, bacon, and croissants.
Nope…just an empty plastic Coke bottle with a third of a cup of Honey Nut Cheerios inside.
I hemmed and hawed for bit and then decided…’what the heck.’
It took a while to master the helicopter routine and I guess it would have been easier to just pour it human like into my hand but where’s the fun and the challenge in that? At least I didn’t lick it off the carpet like Jasper.
I must report that it worked out fine.
Sure, I miss the bacon, eggs, and pancakes religiously and lovingly prepared by Sally each day since our wedding.
Some routines are hard to break.
But, this Jasper Diet has promise and I’m confident those extra pounds will soon be a thing of the past.
*** Jasper is the perky one in the center. His forlorn sister Annabelle is to his right and is having a tough time adapting to this spin the bottle eating routine.
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