Way too much about poop

So I mentioned that Daive has been sick, right? Riiiiight. This particular brand of sickness has involved a lot of pooping (mostly inside, which has been a bad thing) and a fair amount of vomiting (also inside, though when she has to do it in my room, she thoughtfully has chosen the exercise mat in my closet, which makes me happy b/c it's cheap and it's not carpet). The vet diagnosed it tenatively as food intolerance, and so I've been forced to make the switch from Hill's Science Diet to...something else. Daive has been eating Science Diet pretty much as long as I've had her. Even in Israel and Korea. Anyway, so I researched it, and had basically decided on Royal Canin. It's an expensive and rather snooty brand of dog food, but they have a line named "Special" for Mini dogs with sensitive stomachs. Then I stumbled across Nature's Recipe online, but thought Petsmart probably wouldn't have it, and I'd just go with RC. Lo and behold, Petsmart did have the Nature's Recipe. It has no beef, corn, or wheat, no by-products or fillers, and no artificial preservatives.

For my freshman English class, I wrote a paper entitled "What Are You Feeding Fido?" That's right folks, it was all about dog food. And I learned some rather horrifying things. Like blood-soaked sawdust from slaughterhouses can be included in dog food as a meat by-product. Ditto for chicken beaks, feet, and a gel made from steaming the feathers plucked from the chickens. In a word? Disgusting. This was an issue with my parents. They were loyal Ol' Roy dog food buyers. I wish evil things upon the heads of the Ol' Roy makers. In any case, the point it, all the bad stuff that can somehow legitimately go in dog food, is NOT in this particular brand of dog food. And so I bought it yesterday, and Daive ate it for the first time yesterday.

Now, you needed all that as background for the actual important part of this post. It was because of all that that I was found this morning exclaiming, "YES! SOLID POOP! OUTSIDE! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Thank you, Nature's Recipe.