I want to talk about my dog, in particular his eating habits. Why? Oh that’s easy, this stuff is bonkers. My dog’s name is Indy,¹ and he’s had some interesting eating habits.

When he was a puppy, he would scoop up some of his dog food in his mouth, walk over to someone sitting down or standing, drop the food, and then proceed to eat the food by their feet. Of course Indy would turn round, walk back to his bowl, scoop more food up and repeat the exercise. Not the most effective eating method, was it?

Fast forward to May of this year, I wrote about what life is like living with a dog. In that blog, I mentioned about his current eating habits. For whatever odd reason, we noticed that he had started eating his food from his bowl, by dividing it in half. Indy was eating nearly half of his food each time, which is nothing special; however you could tell what he’s done, because he was literally eating half.

We have tried to determine if there is a pattern to his madness, but every time we think we have unlocked it, he up and changes it. It’s like he understands what we are doing, and is deliberately being a jerk about it.

Anyway, we did what any geeks would do, we started recording his eating habits. We discovered Indy has several different ways to eat his food. He is fed only once a day, always in the morning, and with the same type of dog chow.

For Indy’s eating methods, they cover different starting points: Left, Right, Top, and Bottom. There is also the Centre, when Indy ate from the centre and not from any side; All, when he ate all of his food in one setting; and the Hour Glass method, where he ate from the left and the right, so the food looked like a hour glass.

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These are the results:

The percentages work out to be:

Left: 45.88% Right: 40.88% Top: 6.63% Bottom: 3.31% Centre: 0.55% All: 2.21% Hour Glass: 0.55%

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So what does this all mean?

1.) My dog is strange, though that’s relative.

2.) Indy is slightly favouring eating from the left side of the bowl (83 days-74 days), though I do have a hypothesis for this. It may have something to do with the Summer months and the door being left open; or it could be some other crazy reason(s).

3.) As the year has progressed, Indy’s eating habits have become more diverse. June was his most diverse month, because the number of times eating from the bottom half of the bowl, was equal to the number of times eating from the right hand side. Very progressive.

4.) So why has Indy actually started eating his food like this? I don’t know. I’m serious, I don’t know. Does he have OCD?

5.) We will continue to monitor his eating habits for the rest of the year, because, you know, why not? At the end of the year, I’ll present our findings for July-December and compare them to January-June. I’m sure some scientist would be interested in the results. Maybe.

Does your dog or pet have any strange eating habits? Please let me know. Alright, that’s it for tonight. Enjoy the blog, walk your dog, and I’ll see you next week.

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¹ He’s named after Indiana Jones.