Eating

Eating has always been a delicate sport with me. Here is my latest eating process lined out for you to emulate. I don't really like the dish my Mom bought me, and I prefer to eat off the mat. But, I am not uncouth, and so I will not allow anyone to pour the food onto the mat, how offensive! If anyone stoops to that level, I will simply run away. So, our little feeding ritual is thus: Mom pours the food in the dishes, Skimble and Sweetie commence chowing down. I sit demurely by my dish until Mom gets me started by choosing some likely looking morsels out of the dish and placing them in front of me on the mat, whence I shall commence eating as well. As long as I get started this way, I will condescend to dip the rest of the food out myself before eating it. I've illustrated the latter half of the eating period below.