Um, Dinner?

The hubs and I were sharing a rare moment...eating dinner at a decent hour of the day!
We decided to celebrate the occasion by eating at the rarely used dinner table.
Odie thinks this is wierd, since he can usually see what we're eating when we eat on the couch, and the table is so very high.
So he sits, and whines and paws at the table trying to get our attention.
So I throw him a piece of chicken, which he opens his mouth to catch and by the time it reaches him he is already looking on the floor for where it landed, (no he's not a genius, I know).
I start laughing cuz, come on it's silly.
So I try to recreate it for the hubs saying, 'watch, he goes to open his mouth before I even throw it and then after I throw it he thinks it's on the floor already, he misses it by like half a second'.
So, while the thought of this is cute, what transpired is fucking funny.
I throw it, he starts looking for it on the floor while it's still in midair and it LANDS ON HIS BACK! He spends the next 5 minutes pacing around, in a panic trying to figure out where it went before it finally falls off.
What I don't understand is how he didn't feel it land there...God I wish I had video of that.

To Eat or Not to Eat...is that a question?

I recently had a talk with a friend regarding plans to do dinner. Now I 'claim' to not be a picky person, but after looking at what I WON'T eat...I think I have to rethink that.

It all started when I adopted Odie, I couldn't look at a piece of meat the same way again, (considering my dad kept joking that the people he used to live with wanted to eat him).

Then I saw 'Super Size Me'. Great movie, but I do NOT eat McDonalds, Burger King, or anything else remotely related to them. Then my husband thought that "Fast Food Nation" was a comedy...uh no. It completely turned me off of all mammal related foods.

Then I did some PETA research...BIGGER MISTAKE! Now I only want to buy, kosher or from the Humane Farming Association...more expensive but morally I can't argue with it.

So long story short, I don't eat any mammal that could remotely be related to my dog...
I don't eat anything like lobster or crab that has to be "prepared" prior to being put on the table. And I buy cage free, cruelty free eggs.

I walk into a grocery store and I get sad at the amounts of meat. Odie gets vegan pig ears to snack on...
I mean, most of us have pets, and we love them and their personalities.

What makes a cow, pig, lamb or any other animal different? Why are they mass producing these animals? To make money.

If you are an animal lover, think about your pet the next time you sit down to a hamburger, or a porkchop.

And then have sympanthy for me, because I really really miss the taste of a good steak...stupid conscience.