This may not be true about other breeds of dogs, or even other dogs, period, but our Pomeranian likes to eat vegetable and meat salads. It happened quite coincidentally. We were in the food court of a mall here where they have a strange, but nice, dish. A nice Asian woman will hand you a list of sauces and spices you want to choose from, and a list of meat, seafood and cheese items available. There will be a large buffet lookalike table with a choice of pasta, noodles and chopsuey, and about 25 different kinds of extremely tasty, fresh, exotic vegetables. The usual vegetables – baby corn, lettuce, spring onions, jalapeno and mushroom – are all there, but there’s a bunch of Thai, Chinese, Mexican and other vegetables that I had never seen before.

So the recipe basically goes like this, you mix the things you want in your food, choose your condiments, sauces and spices, meat or seafood, and the chef fries that up in a wok and hands over. It’s simple, it’s delicious, and it’s just what my dog wants when I need him to take his daily petmeds.

Yes, I brought that stuff home once, and gave him the leftovers. He just loved it, and that’s the first time he when he did not quibble over his medication. So that gave me the idea; its bean a few years now, but I always do a daily dish of veggies and meat salad for him, and he takes his meds as nonchalantly as ever.

That’s something strange about a dog – or about a man, if you look at it the other way – a dog can eat the same good food for years on end without getting bored. But give a man something good, and he will eat it for 2 days; and start grumbling on the third. So, anyways, my dog still likes this stuff, and I have never had a problem feeding him his meds since.