Ms. P has taken to feeding our dog Moses. It first started with her playing in his water bowl then to feeding him dinner and now, she has found his treat drawer. Ms. P by all respects is a very caring person. She is always concerned that Moses (and mom and dad) get some bites. This, along with the reduction in human food for Moses has made him quite the aggressive little guy when it comes to food. He pretty much stalks Ms. P whenever she has food because he knows he is going to get something from her whether she a) gives it to him, b) it drops accidentally or c) if he is really inclined, he will just take it out of her hands, reducing her to tears. Despite our constant warnings, Ms. P still finds it fun to play in his water bowl. I think she tips his bowl over on purpose to see how mad her father and I get. We just can't understand how she doesn't understand why its wrong. Surely, she understands our "No's." Well, I guess that is why Ms. P's very first teacher, Jenny said she was "spicy." She is spicy alright, she likes to spice the heck out of mom and dad with that water bowl. When she isn't dumping the water, she is picking the other food bowl up. She has learned where we keep Moses food and each night after she eats dinner she will go pick up his bowl and bring it to the cabinet. We let her scoop Moses' food out and put it in the bowl and we let her carry the bowl back to his eating area. Sometimes she takes a really long way back to his tray much to his dismay. Sometimes she will like to set the bowl down in one spot and then pick it up and take it to another area and repeat several times before Moses can get his nose in the food. This, not the water bowl dumping, is really cute to watch. Now that she knows about his food and water it was only time before she learned about his treats. Today she discovered Moses' Made in the USA chicken treats (not to be confused with those evil Made in China Chicken treats). AS she loves to open and close containers it was only natural she was drawn to Moses' treat container. She took one out and almost instantly Moses who is bigger than her in size was upon her small frame and in true Moses style snatched it out of her hand quickly. Then she got another one and he did the same thing. You could see her trying to figure our the whole process and want to experiment again and again with what Moses would do. It was a good experiment on her part until we had to step in and say that Moses had had enough. Now Moses has a third person in the house who can go to that snack cabinet and get him a treat.
