pet food scare and a little T-chat

If you've been following the pet-food scare, here's an article to check out: http://tinyurl.com/2o3rp3 Follow the links in the article--lots of political, economic, and safety issues. The foods I give the Ts are grain-free, but I've gone back to reading the labels for the snacks I sometimes get them (Pedigree chews, for instance).

Also, here's a link to an extensive and detailed list of foods that are safe--or at least, they were safe when the list was posted: http://petsitusa.com/blog/?p=210

I have this bottle toy that dispenses food (Tug-a-Jug, http://tinyurl.com/25oa74 ) and it's interesting to watch the Ts play with it in their different ways. Timber, direct and straight-ahead in his problem-solving, grabs it by the bottom--and it's quite big, sometimes he needs to use a paw to get it out of his mouth!--lifts it, and drops it. Food falls out, he eats it, repeat. Taenzer is more subtle and less forceful, and she's discovered that if you wiggle the rope in the mouth of the bottle, food will fall out, so she lies down on the floor with the bottle between her paws, takes the rope in her mouth and jiggles it back and forth, then eats what comes out. Timber gets more at one time than Taenzer does, but Taenzer probably gets as much in the long run because she's willing to lie there and manipulate it longer.

They're the same with the Buster Cube. Timber picks the whole thing up and carries it onto the couch--it's all scarred and marked up from Timber-teeth now--and then fusses and whines and wrestles with it. Taenzer, like her aunt Stella, uses her nose and paws to roll it along the floor--much more elegant.