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Thanksgiving Leftovers – A Canine Point of ViewBy BJChips(5,642)   Well another Thanksgiving has come and gone. Another feast has been devoured and it’s on to the leftovers! I’ve noticed that humans always over do the food thing on holidays. It’s a compulsion of the species to have at least twice the food that they can eat on any given holiday. This is just one of the differences between canines and humans. Canines, at least our wild ancestors killed for food. They tracked and hunted down their prey and consumed it.Say a pack of five wolves went out for Thanksgiving dinner and the meal of choice was venison. Ma and Pa wolf didn’t get together and say “Gosh we’ve got two kids and Grandma let’s go take down a fat buck in the morning and track down another one for a late afternoon snack.” Humans on the other hand will say,” Gee it’s the four of us plus Grandma, and maybe Uncle Pete so let’s get a twenty-five pound turkey, a ten pound ham and throw in a roast beef just in case someone doesn’t like the other two.” Hence leftovers!Hey, it’s not that I mind leftovers. Goodness no, I relish the fact that there will be turkey skin, ham rind and beef fat laying around the house for three, maybe four days. It’s like a whole week of holiday meals for me, and of course, the cat. Mind you it’s not only the meat, it’s the mashed potatoes, the candied yams, the stuffing, and of course the desserts. Our refrigerator looks like the bargain basement at Macy’s the day before a clearance sale. Every shelf, every nook and cranny is packed full of those seal and store containers humans buy to put food in. It’s almost certain if you hang out near the fridge something is going to hit the floor, pop open, or fall off, and land within range of your mouth. Another thing that amazes me about humans is their ability to prepare the same food twenty-five different ways. Take the turkey for example; yesterday it was carved into lovely slices and topped with rich gravy, today it’s served cold in sandwiches and tomorrow it’s going to divided between turkey hash and turkey soup. It’s one turkey for goodness sake give the poor thing a break! The same thing goes for the ham and the roast beef, each will have it’s turn as hash, soup, sandwiches, and goodness knows what before finally, dried and curled, shriveled and puckered the remains will hit the trash bin!Canines are different about leftovers too. In the wild you kill, you eat and you move on. What’s left is for the next animal on the food chain. Share and share alike is the norm in the animal world. There’s no such thing as leaving the pack in the middle of the night to run down to the carcus and make yourself a cold venison sandwich! Well, just goes to show you that we’re all different in this world. To each his own I say, humans have there way, we have ours. Now if you’ll all excuse me, I think I hear my human getting the turkey platter out of the fridge…. something about more sandwiches?This Blog Post has been read 3 times. Posted to ProBlogs.com on Monday, January 01, 2007 View other posts by BJChips Comments on this blog post: No comments yet. Leave a Public Comment or Question: Welcome Online Dog Show - VOTES NEEDED!! VOTES NEEDED!! Painting Leaving Las Vegas (but with more alcohol) Off into the Wild West The city with the big bridge (Im sure thats the offical title) The Blizzard |
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