Dogs...and their food!

The other day when my boyfriend and I were buying dog food for our German Shepard Bella, I suggested we get the lamb mix for her instead of the chicken mix to give her some variety and he said back, "She's doing good with the chicken." This particular brand has been helping her gain some weight that she needed, but it also got me thinking about why dogs beg and how boring their food must taste to them after eating the same thing day after day.

I always hated it when a dog begged before I adopted Bella and referred myself as her "Momma", but thinking about it, if I was a dog I would beg for a different type of food, if I smelt something rather than the same old chicken and rice I ate everyday.

It's amazing how dogs can function and live off of the same basic elements, dry dog food and water every single day for years and still be happy, compared to humans and the diffent elements and food groups we need to survive! I don't feel so bad letting her lick my plate of nachos, like she's doing right now, or let her lick a bowl clean of her favorite thing- ice cream- afterall, the only bad thing it can do is give her some doggy diarrhea!