the shop i work in is now, more or less officially, called "stella's full circle emporium". stella is my boss's dog, a hyperactive (is there any other kind?) jack russell terrier. she has free run of the store. last week i spilled some peanuts on the floor. i thought i had cleaned up most of them. but then stella showed and started snorfling around for all the peanuts i missed. so now stella considers me and my area of commerce a source of food. today i was behind my counter and eating an orange. i consider it important to eat high nutrition foods while drinking on the job. stella shows up and gives me her "give-me-food" look. i said: "it's an orange, you idiot," under the assumption that dogs don't eat oranges. i stuck an orange slice in her face expecting her to turn up her nose and leave. instead, she snaps it out of my hand and gobbles it down. i say: "you've got to be kidding." i present her with another slice and she does the same thing. stella is eager for a third orange section, but i'm not sure i should give her one. i go off to another part of the store to find shannon, whose other job is as an veterinarian nurse or something like that. i say: "shannon? can you feed dogs oranges?" shannon: "won't kill her, far as i know." i say: "i've fed stella two orange slices." shannon: "christ, that dog will eat anything. i've seen her eat raw onions. don't give her any more; between the sugars and the citric acid, she's had enough."

Reese the peanut butter cup LOVES lemons. She will play with them, then eat them. It's weird, she's the only dog I know who does this.

my mother had a toy poodle named 'motley', whom we considered retarded.........every morning the dog had to have a cup of coffee with cream and 2 sugars, plus an orange....a peeled orange, of course......no she couldn't do it........we had to peel for her......she ate a complete orange most a.m.'s....wasn't really too retarded, was she.......just odd........

Rufus, my basset hound, is like a goat. He'll eat ANYTHING. His favorite snack is a white cotton sock, the stinkier the better. He's also fond of nylon knee-highs. He snarfs 'em up and about 24 hours later they come out the other end, still in one piece. He once ate some steel wool that had fallen behind the recycling bins. He coughed for a few hours, drank a lot of water and that was it. He also snatched a full bag of M&Ms off the counter and ate them, wrapping and all. Chocolate is supposed to be toxic to dogs, but it didn't even phase him. That's probably why that poisoned dog food didn't kill him. However, he won't eat peas, carrots or grapes.

Henry loves oranges. Henry eats everything: oranges, peanut butter, wood chips, cat poo, dust bunnies.... I don't know how he can tell the difference between food and notfood.

...Snorfling?????this is a made up word that is not in a dictionary,right?

My cats love grapes. They like to chase them around the house and then scarf them. They also really like pumpkin puree and carrot slices. Go figure.

I give henry pumpkin puree to help with his anal glands

plat,its fat spiders for my 2 cats.,Tia and Pals.

plat,lost track of your cats names.Can you post them?

Loki gets pumpkin to help with his exploding ass I mean irritable bowel disease. But the other two are into it as well, and I figure more fiber cannot hurt.

4 cats????

plat,both my cats try to kill each other,so as one comes in,I have to put one out,how do you run 4 cats?

This thread rules. Dave had a dog named Stella that became partly mine when our households merged. I loved that damn dog. She was a good dog, for being such a bad dog. My animals all like popcorn, but only if it's heavy on the butter and nutritional yeast.

Reese steals undies and takes them outside. And socks. And yesterday she ate a pound of butter. She's been counter surfing the little mushface.

The cats had a bra obsession for awhile, but they seem to have gotten over it. Fortunately.

my young {at the time] daughter {maybe 10} had a bra obsession, also.....thought she was elly-may clampitt.....made my bras into double-barrelled sling-shots..........pretty funny at first, 'til i had no more bras. we also had toy poodles {nasty ones] that would wait for my sisters or me to have a date, right before the guy came to the front door, to wait in the front hallway for us-the dogs would drag out our old used, bloody tampons-and leave them sittimg there for our guys to see......nasty, nasty, dogs!!!!!!

i just found a web site that has a picture of stella on it. http://thiseclecticlife.com/category/shopping/

stella is a weird looking dog - nice, but different......i'm glad the store is not in k.c.mo., but fort worth-'cause i'd spend ALL my money there..it looks cool.......

leroy loves steamed broccoli. when he smells it cooking, he sits at the edge of the kitchen and waits patiently for his portion. lulu tries to like broccoli because leroy does, but she ends up spitting it out. they both love green grapes. if you toss one in the air, lulu can catch it. leroy can't, he has to chase it down.

sarah, not supposed to feed dogs grapes: http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ope/enotes/showarticle.cfm?id=160

fed stella more oranges today. i've got her hooked. i didn't feed her the jalapeņo pickled egg i brought to work, though; i thought that would be too much. when i left work to go home, a massive storm front came in. asked antigone if you don't believe me; texas weather has been vicious, lately. it's a long story that i'm too tired to tell, but my ride home was an adventure...and very wet. the bus i rode to downtown actually flooded at one point. when i got home, there were several messages on my machine asking if i was alive. i'm a living, waterlogged cripple. life is an adventure.

Max (my cat) loves black olives.