#dog parent

[shadowisabean]

My life revolves around Shadow 🐶❤️

[halltastic]

Happy Saturday Everyone!

[jrlunaart]

Laundry basket + zip ties + pool noodles = dog float

[littlealienproducts]

All of my friends are dogs yellow t-shirt by ilikeCATSshop

[fly-the-pattern]

[aspenonpawzzz]

my daughter <3

[another-little-hippie]

i now live for this comment. the first time i listened to Led Zeppelin was also my first time taking edibles. obviously it was a great experience. i am that dog.

[furbabiesart]

What do Dog Mom day mean

The term "dog mom or dad" typically refers to a person, usually a woman or male, who is very devoted to her pet dog(s), treating them with affection similar to how a parent would care for a child. It's a playful and endearing way to describe someone who loves and nurtures their dogs as if they were their own children.

[larajeandoodles]

A year ago today Mimsy joined my little family! Let’s celebrate! Shipping is $5 in the US.

3 slots!

[gorgonstaringcontest]

Dog has been getting fussy and picky about the food I was giving her. Nothing's wrong, it's just a natural consequence of her life up until now.

The first night she was with me and for the first couple of weeks, I cooked her food myself to get her eating comfortably and up to a healthy weight. Then tried introducing actual pet foods because I was worried she wasn't getting exactly the right nutrients.

The brands swapped around because of availability and finding better options and did my best to smoothly transition between them. In the meantime, I'd give her things just for the joy of seeing her try things for the first time - chicken, roast lamb, blueberries, egg. She loved them all.

Then, she really started eating a lot. So I did what I thought was logical - bought in bulk of the food she liked. She'd tried a lot different things by this point so the newness was dying down, but about 3/4ths the way through the bulk food I bought, she just... Stopped being interested.

She went off the wet food first, and seemed to only want dry and to drink more water. Seemed fine. But then, she got sick of the dry food - only eating it begrudgingly after I'd eaten like "well, if this is all there is". So I bought different dry food, and it was okay for like a week and a bit and then, meh. Tried mixing the wet and dry together (actually mixing not just in the same bowl) and that was apparently the worst of both worlds.

So... Dog is apparently a gourmand now. She has a refined palate, and seeks new experiences.

According to advice I could find on the matter, the suggestion was to mix new things into the existing food to spice things up a bit.

I bought things to do this today, and she just... Didn't eat her lunch. Not interested, but kept doing the "feed me" things. So I decided that if it was a flavour sensation she wanted, she'd get it. And this way I could see if she didn't like any of it and could cull it from being mixed in in future.

Now we all understand dogs don't taste things the way we do, which is good, because although each individual thing is something I eat, the resulting mix was a bit more adventurous than most people would be. I made a plain rice congee, roasted off some sweet potato, pumpkin, and carrot, steamed some peas and corn, and sauteed some beef strips and - the real star of the show - liver. Topped it off with a few blueberries and some diced dried apricot as well and decided to really spoil her with a drizzle of peanut butter.

Dog was ecstatic. Ate her whole dinner. Licked the bowl clean. And then came and gave me lots of attention, very clearly pleased with the evening's offering, before going back to lick the bowl again in case a single molecule of flavour was left behind. She licked my hands, because I can only assume they smell a bit like the food from cooking it.

Every time I go NEAR the kitchen, she goes and sits by the fridge, because she saw that I cooked multiple meals worth of food and put the rest in there - the mana from heaven is trapped in the food prison, as far as she's concerned.

So I'm heading to bed now and, and she's curled up in her bed with a full tummy, which makes me glad. Aside from the extremely deadly liver-tinged dogfart that she perpetrated that is going to lead me to sleep with the windows open even though it's like 13°, I feel like I've achieved responsible dog parent status.

And for those wondering - liver is something I've eaten since I was a kid, no it's not because of rewatching Hannibal, yes I was tempted to see if dogs can have fava beans but no didn't actually check.

[gracies-dreams]

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒚 ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ฅ𐂯

¹³ ᵒⁿ ᶠʳⁱᵈᵃʸ, ᵗʰᵉ ¹³ᵗʰ 𖹭

[shadowisabean]

No thoughts, only scritches 🐶❤️

[halltastic]

Those eyes 😊

[victusinveritas]

[twomanyfandomshelp]

Just realized I haven’t shared a doggo pic with y’all in ages, and that simply will not do.

Took this one earlier while we were all waiting very impatiently for my sister to finish making dinner.

Here’s some of our family friends’ dog, his name is Oliver. I took these while I was babysitting for them (you can kinda see the kid in the background lol).

@nyx-of-darkness-1620, more dog pics for ya!

[curiositysavesthecat]

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