WetNoz

So Coco has been having an anxiety attack all this week. Last Sabbath, on the way out the door with his pointy-toed dress shoes, Carl stepped on her food dish and broke it. So all this week we've fed her out of a plastic container and she looks nervously at her food, shifts in reverse and backs away as if crunchies monster was going to eat her. I tried to help her by standing by her and petting her. The only thing gained by doing this was that I could observe her heart thumping like a jack rabbit running in the Appleton's pasture as Andy was driving by in the Explorer trying to hit them. No such drama in our kitchen was happening, except in Coco's little nervous mind. By Wednesday, still not having eaten more than a hand-fed kibble, it was apparent she was not going to start eating again. She started becoming extra depressed and lethargic and I knew I needed to find her a replacement bowl for her precious kibble. Of course, having looked at a pet store and Target, I could not find a bowl that would meet her safety requirements. In the pet store, they had only fancy painted ones that had metal liners. As everyone knows, metal liners can creep out and crawl across the floor and nip at little doggies in there beds at night. Target only had plastic ones and that clearly won't do for our little doggie. So, I went to Two Paws Up, a local pet boutique in Frederick and found just the bowl for Coco FiveStarFido - Zen Dish now not only does this dish have the perfect name to market to Coco...it has a treat spot by the bowl so if she gets scared, she starts to smell the wonderful aroma coming from her treat and will get reined in by it. So far (since yesterday afternoon when I found this little treasure) she's eaten two meals! That's two more meals eaten than the rest of the week - Sabbath to Thursday. Hope this keeps up after she gets used to eating a treat at each meal...