SUMMARY: The Careful Shopper's Diary, plus Who Hates Pet Stores?
So, it's not only people-related stuff that can be subject to goofy pricing. At Pet Club, you can buy one individually wrapped Savory Prime 4.5" pressed rawhide bone for 69 cents:
To be fair, there are places where it's an extreme in the other direction. For example, I can buy a single 12" Cadet Bully Stick for--$4.99?!? Holy steerpizzle! My dogs sometimes get 2 or 3 or 4 of these a week! EACH. That price would kill me!
Boost likes these at home, but she hates pet stores. HATES them. Tail down, ears down, miserable terrified little Border Collie. I keep trying to take her into these places briefly so she can see the wonders of all the food and toys, but she HATES IT MOM LET'S GO RIGHT NOW. On the way out a couple of months ago, she suddenly hunkered down, went into growling mode while I tried to figure out what she was looking at, then into full-scale alarm barking. I realized she was looking UP. A cute little flop-eared cartoon dog on a sign, fer pet's sake!
Tika, like all my other dogs before her, loves pet stores and would spend all day there finding little scraps of food and chew toys and bones in open bins that someone left there JUST FOR HER. However, since no pet store is immediately at hand--same bed, 12 hours later--she rests up for the coming weekend.
Katie used to be afraid of the big scary building...but now she can't wait to get in there. She's a vacuum cleaner,I have to be careful and watch what she's getting into.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this week she DID bark at our car tire. Seems we lost the hub cap and it looked different and SHE DID NOT LIKE IT!
Goofy dog.
That sounds like what I've been led to believe is a common border collie thing, maybe herding breeds in general? A hyper sensitivity to the environment and changes in it, which is what you'd kind of want in a herding dog. But it's insane in a normal modern life.
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