Schooled By Simon

Someone took excellent notes while attending the Simon School of Hunger Pangs.  His rules were simple...

1) be on schedule
2) beg with your eyes
3) eat as fast as possible, pretend there's a gold medal on the line

Should things backfire and you don't get fed on time then by all means be resourceful...

1)  Look for extra treats in mommie's purse...true story, he found a couple once.
2)  Look for food laying around.
3)  Start following people around until they get the message that your dinnertime has been missed...true story, daddy forgot to feed him while mommy was out Christmas shopping one year. 4)  If all else fails take matters into your own paws!

Little Miss Piper learned well. She was taught by the master and she was an A+ student of his. So somewhere in heaven little Simon was looking down at his little sister this past Saturday likely cheering her on. Likely bragging that he taught her everything she knows.

Here's the story, soon after Brad arrived home from tennis on Saturday we decided to go out to an "early" dinner then go shopping for an area rug for our living room. Our new place is all ceramic tile except for the bedrooms, therefore, we'd like a nice size area rug for us but also for the pets to enjoy curling up on. Needless to say dinner and shopping went a little late. I soon mentioned we needed to wrap things up to get home to the pets. Mainly Piper needed to be fed, Cody has odd eating times these days.

We were home for about 5 minutes when I went into get Piper's food soon realizing the back-up bag of food next to her container of food had been tampered with. Tampered with in a big way...let's say a Simon would have approved type of way! He wouldn't have been able to do any better himself. The bag had food spilling out in two different areas. She had taken matters into her own paws. She had realized dinnertime had come and gone and nothing was in her tummy. What's a cat to do?  Be resourceful! She was very resourceful! I worried all night and into the next day about how much of the bag she had ingested along with the amount of food she scored. Thanks for the extra moments of worry Piper. As if I don't worry enough....but these days it's mostly about Cody, and whether or not he's still breathing.

Let me just say that will never happen again. She can't break into her container of food but a back-up bag is a challenging yet doable task to take on. That being said, in the future I will be more aware of where I place the back-up bag of food. Back-up bags of food and treats will go in a cupboard from now on. Oh wait that sounds familiar....I had to do the same thing years ago when someone named Simon was lurking about. That's why for so many years our coat closet featured dog food and their snacks. My apartments have always had smaller kitchens with small pantries so dog items usually went in the coat closet, odd I know. But you fit things where you can fit things. I believe I made the mistake once with Simon too. Only one time was a bag of food available to him to break into.  I'm a fast learner too. I learned lessons at the Simon School of Hunger Pangs too, my lessons were about how to keep him in check! Learning how to counter his actions! LOL!