Not Good for You – Conversations with the Pack

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I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges. What are you eating, Lady Human? I’ll have some, please

Me: No, it has chocolate in it. Bad for you.

Sweetie: Is that another made-up human rule to keep us from having fun?

Me: Nope. “Bad for you” means it will make you sick and that is not fun.

MoonCat: May I have…?

Me: No. Same reason.

MoonCat: I was going to ask if I may have a healthy, nutritious, non-chocolate cat snack before I was so rudely cut off. Hmmmph.

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Sound Bulldog Advice – Conversations with the Pack

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I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Sweetie: Lady Human, we know how to break your chocolate fixation. Every time you want to pick up a piece of chocolate, stop.

Me: Easily said. Not as easily done.

Doodlebug: Stop and turn around and go get us a treat instead.

Sweetie: And you never want to give us too many treats, do you? Even though there is no such thing as too many treats for bulldogs, so…

Doodlebug: You will stop thinking of your treats so much.

Sweetie: Because you don’t want us to get fat from too many treats, even though there is no such thing as too many treats for bulldogs.

Me: Hmmm. Practiced distraction. Redirection. It might work.

MoonCat: Good advice from bulldogs? Wonders never cease. Distract some cat treats my way while you’re at it.

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Bulldog Intervention – Conversations with the Pack

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I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges. Lady Human, is that yet another chocolate bar you’re holding?

Sweetie: Tucked safely away in your front pocket with your floppy sleeve covering it?

Doodlebug: Hiding it from man and beast?

Me: Maybe.

Sweetie: Psst! Doodle, we could snatch it and bury it in the backyard. Then the ants could eat it and Lady Human would be saved.

Doodlebug: No, she’d worry that we had eaten it and we can’t have chocolate at all. But we could stare at her until she gets embarrassed.

Sweetie: She’s already embarrassed or she wouldn’t be hiding it.

MoonCat: No chocolate! Never! Sneaking rich treats? Shameful behavior. Unless, of course, it’s a sardine and I’m doing the sneaking. Then it’s perfectly justified.

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