Last July, I wrote a post about the eating habits of my dog. If you have not already read the first installment, here are the key points, compressed down like a spinning black hole:

• My dog’s name is Indy and he’s 11 years old this month.
• I noticed Indy was eating figuratively and literally, half of his food in his bowl.
• I decided to study how he was eating the food, by recording it on the calendar; every day for a year.
• It was always the same type of dog food in his bowl.
• After the first six months (January-June 2022), I presented the results in the form of some graphs and data.
• I’m strange, which to be honest, explains a lot about Indy.

The main takeaway from the first six months of the experiment, was that Indy was slightly favouring eating from the left side of his bowl. The percentages were:

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

If you want a better understanding of this ridiculous experiment, please read the post here.

Anyway, this post is about the second six months (July-December 2022) of the experiment.

These are the results:

The percentages work out to be:

Left: 32.24% Right: 26.22%  Top: 14.20%  Bottom: 13.66%  Centre: 1.09% 

All: 7.10%  Hour Glass: 0.54% Did not eat: 5.46%

So what does this all mean?

1.) Indy is still odd, so nothing has changed there.

2.) Indy is still favouring the left side of the bowl with 59 days to the nearest rival; the right side with 48 days. The interesting thing here is that during the July-December period, Indy actually decreased eating on the left and right hand side of the bowl, compared to the January-June period.

3.) Just like the first six months, Indy’s eating habits have become more diverse, especially the increase of All of the food and Did not eat. These two categories can be explained though, because they are connected. During the second six months, when Indy did not eat his food, it was because of three reasons; it was too hot, he was sick and a surprise one.

Trying to decipher dog logic is difficult at the best of times, but I believe that when the temperature was hitting 25°C or higher, Indy was simply feeling too hot to actually eat, so he didn’t. As for the illness, Indy would sometimes eat some random food while he was having a walk, which would make him sick and put him off food for several days. No surprise there.

There is also the third reason, which was when he was on holiday. On the very few times we actually went somewhere for a holiday, Indy would stay with my father-in-law, so he could be looked after. Indy loves him, however he would refuse to eat the food from his bowl, because my father-in-law would feed him lots of different things, that he really shouldn’t be eating. Indy is treated like royalty, every time he goes there. So basically, we had to record it as Did not eat, several times, purely because he did not eat from his bowl.

With Indy eating all of his food in one session, this would usually occur after a day that he did not eat, because he was so hungry. Not every time, but near enough.

4.) With being diverse, Indy had four months with six different options, which is quite progressive for a 10 year old dog.

And with that, I’ll present the entire results of 2022 next month; though to be fair, it’s pretty obvious what Indy prefers.

That’s it for this week and thanks for reading, following and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me. Go walk your dog, read a banned book, watch the Six Nations Championship and I’ll see you next week.

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