What’s up with that?
I had to create a fruit dish and a vegetable platter for my mother-in-law’s 80th birthday recently. Her twin brother visited from Australia, and we had a wonderful time. So I did something I rarely do—I bought a cantaloupe.
I hate cantaloupe. I just don’t get the taste. It bothers me. In fact, as I think about it, the only melon I really, really like is of the water variety. Yum.
So I had leftover cantaloupe, and then My Liege and I had to go out of town to move Youngest Son into residence at his university in another province (he won’t be home until Christmas, sob). I thought Eldest Son and his GF would eat up all the leftover fruit and vegetable platters while I was gone. Alas, they did not. I made short work of the vegetable platter as soon as I got home. But no way was I touching that cantaloupe.
E.S. went through a cantaloupe stage in high school. I was buying them every week, and he’d gobble them up. However, he hasn’t requested a cantaloupe purchase in a couple of years now. I thought I’d rubbed off on him.
But he started eating the leftover cantaloupe. And then he discovered that Allie McBeagle loves it, too! She not only loves it, she adores it. She’d ravish an entire cantaloupe in one licking, I do believe. She just would not leave him alone while he enjoyed his slice.
The next morning, we discovered this weird note on the kitchen table. From the dog. Don’t ask me how it got there. But she was begging for cantaloupe. She was simply beside herself with wanting more. E.S. obliged. Since then, she made her life’s mission to leave these odd notes about cantaloupe all over the house—until she and E.S. had consumed every last slice.
Right now she’s looking up at me communicating with her eyes, “Buy more cantaloupe!” But I will not. Maybe next week.
What weird thing (to you) does your dog (or other pet) like to consume? I’ve tried feeding Allie grapes and bananas, and she turns up her beagle nose. But whisper “cantaloupe” to her, and she’s goes crazy.
