tiny dog/tomato

[boxofdelights]

My tiny dog has rediscovered that tomatoes on the vine are food. He figured this out once before, a couple of years ago, but I kept him away from the tomato plants for a while and he seemed to forget. This year I noticed a hole in a ripe tomato as if a bird had pecked it for a drink; later I found Newt eating that tomato, still on the vine, and now he'll go get himself one anytime I'm not looking. The big dog will finish a tomato that Newt has started, but won't pick them himself. I don't know whether he doesn't recognize them as food while they are on the vine, or he doesn't recognize them as food unless someone else is actually eating them. I suppose I have enough ripening tomatoes that I could experiment...

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Comments

[jesse_the_k]

That faaaaaaace.

I've read many times that dogs don't do guilt, but photos like this certainly make that hard to believe.

[boxofdelights]

It is hard to believe. And this little guy is just so expressive; his genes have been selected for the job of Companion Animal as thoroughly as a Komondor's genes have been selected for guarding sheep.

[jinian]

That is a very cute tiny dog.

[boxofdelights]

He has recalibrated my idea of what size dogs are. I visited beaq at her mom's house the other day; I had been there before, years ago. "You had a smaller dog then," I said. Nope! Same dog, much older and blinder but same strong opinions about who belongs and who does not, but now he fits my idea of a medium-sized dog.