Taking Nadi for Schnitzel and "givin' a dog a bone"

I think that until the renew the specials that our time at Section 30 restaurant is likely coming to a close. I have ventured into the regular menu and I am not impressed, just as I feared would be the case. I do enjoy how they treat my dog and give her a lot of freedom but I will not suffer bad food, regardless of how nice someone is to my doggo.

Now the schnitzel wasn't bad. There wasn't anything terribly wrong with it. It just isn't as special as the specials are and you can get a schnitzel anywhere around here and like I have said before, that is a real problem in our part of town. Everyone has the same things on their menu and menus just become very boring because you alrady know what it is going to have on it even before you look at it.

So I think this will be our last time to Section 30 until they change the specials.

As is often the case with me, I kept going and going and going until I no longer like the place. I regularly ruin restaurants with this tactic because they don't alter their menu often enough and it is unreasonable for me to expect them to do so. I'll just find somewhere else to overeat at and come back to later.

The rain has set back in and that is just fine by me because it means that we don't have to deal with absurdly high temps... but the downside is that taking Nadi on her beloved walks results in her getting badly dirty because she is a low rider and seems to pick up all the dirt on the road and then deposit it inside my apartment shortly thereafter.

We do have a solution though. It's called the "Cute Baby Jumper."

The is the only outfit that I have for my dog because I don't think dogs really like wearing clothes, they just do it because we put it on them. She hates putting this thing on but endures it because I think she has been through the process enough times to realize that by putting this on, she knows that an extra long walk is coming up, and that there will be plenty of treats headed her way as a result.

What she didn't realize was that we were going to make a pit stop to pick up something really special: A lamb shank bone with most of the meat stripped from it.

Dogs love bones with a bit of meat or gristle still attached to it, and Nadi is not an exception to this rule. Nadi also gets very food protective when it comes to bones and although I know she would never bite me, she does act like she is going to do so. I am sure that most people that have dogs are aware of this. I wouldn't want a stranger approaching her when she is working on one of these things.

Danger puppy is on high alert here. She must protect!

This is the only kind of bone that I can allow her to have because although it was many years ago, Nadi nearly died one day because of chicken bone fragments getting lodged in her throat and had it traveled just a centimeter or so further down her throat it would have entered her lungs and likely ended her life. It makes me sad just to think about it but needless to say I do not allow her any bones that she can possible swallow. I suppose she could pull a pelican on this thing and get it all the way down and yes, something like this has happened before but I think most dogs have a built in defense towards this and they simply lie flat on the ground so that their airway is not blocked. I wasn't going to allow that to continue though and this was MANY years ago but I had someone hold her jaw open while I used a needle-nose pliars to remove a bone from her gullet.

This bone was specifically chosen because it is too big for her to even attempt to get it down. I do have to take it away from her after an hour or so because even though I live in a high rise, the ants are relentless in this country and somehow manage to find it and swarm all over it. So after an hour I take it away and put it in the freezer. Then I pull it out the next day and we repeat the entire process again. Since Nadi doesn't have much in the way of offense, we can work on this one bone for a week, maybe more.

They say that giving dogs bones is a bad idea and I agree and disagree. For one thing they really really love them, you just have to make sure that they can't chew through them or splinter them up and get them stuck in their throat. For most dogs, even the splitering isn't much of an issue but Nadi is a pampered pup and has never dealt with much adversity in her life.

I do find it kind of funny that she reacts so loudly whenever I approach her when she has her bone because she is 12 years old and in that time I have taken food away from her a grand total of something like half a dozen times. It must just be built into a dog's DNA to be protective of food. Nadi has never been truly hungry nor has she ever had to compete for food, but the battle is still going on in her mind for some reason.

It's cute and I monitor her like crazy when she has it. As a general rule I would say that especially if you aren't going to watch them like a hawk, it is probably better to NOT give dogs bones.