Dumpster Diving

Have you ever heard the expression "a dog will eat anything?"   We learned our lesson the other day.  We were laying in bed, enjoying my vacation and my husbands day off from the fire house, when we heard a strange noise coming from our living room.  It sounded like Izzy had gotten a hold of a piece of paper.  Slowly we pried ourselves from the bed to go see what she was up to.  When we walked out of the bedroom our 5 month old puppy's head pops out of the garbage bag that was now on the floor, and she comes trotting over with a soggy french fry hanging from her mouth.  As if to say, "look mom I saved you some," she immediately dropped it at my feet. 

Now after looking at the picture, and reading up until now you're probably wondering why there was a pound of french fries in the garbage.  Did I mention we're lousy cooks?   I say that because I can only imagine how much has to go wrong for an ENTIRE bag of frozen french fries to come out tasting bad.  So the night before the french fry binge eating, we had botched a bag of french fries and decided to just throw them out. 

Fast forward to the next day, Izzy is so proud of herself.  When we yell at her, instead of laying and sulking she runs around the house doing her kidney bean dance.  I go to check the bag to see how many fries she actually ate and my jaw hits the floor.  There were only 3 or 4 fries left in the garbage.  I immediately go into freak out mommy mode.  Feeling foolish, I pick up the phone and call our vet.  I explained that our 5 month old puppy just downed a pound of french fries and the vet tech on the phone LAUGHED.  When she finally regained her composure she said to just keep an eye on her and to expect an upset tummy.  

So for the next couple of days we were diligently watching her every move.  Other than feeling sluggish the day of, and not eating her puppy chow that night. She was fine!  I was hoping she'd at least get a bit of an upset tummy to teach her a lesson.  But no, she still tries to dumpster dive....