Belly Ache!

First let me tell you all that Ian has been gone all weekend in Chicago. Although I did miss him, it was pretty awesome, because I got to sleep in the bed with Woman. Actually, I slept on top of Woman most of the time. She makes a nice cozy body pillow. I couldn't blog about it earlier, because Woman is paranoid about being alone in the house, and she didn't want a serial killer to come and kill her after reading on my blog that she was all alone. I guess she doesn't think I can protect her. P-shaw!

Woman and I spent Friday night at the Gammy's house, and Nate dropped Buddy off there to stay the weekend with us. Nate brought Buddy some food in a plastic grocery bag. I eyed that food pretty good most of the night.

The next morning, Woman and Gammy went to get some free plants from a lady who was thinning out her garden, and then Woman, Buddy and I went home to plant the plants. The plants had been placed in plastic grocery bags. Woman unloaded all the plastic grocery bags onto the back porch and proceeded to plant the new flowers. In her hasty unloading, Woman inadvertantly (that's a word, right?) put Buddy's plastic grocery bag of food on the porch with the other plastic grocery bags of plants. I noticed this immediately and played it cool ... Then, when she was up in the corner of the yard digging, I made my move. SNARF! SNARF! Woman came back down and saw me snarfing and was afraid I had found the garlic bulbs the friend gave her. As she approached me asking, "What are you eating?" I proceeded to SNARF with more fury, because I knew my time was short. She was relieved to see that it was just Buddy's food, but not so relieved to see that I had eaten it all. Yes, all of it - about 4 cups! Buddy is a big boy, and he eats a lot of food. She gave me a scolding, but I didn't care, because I got the food, and it was worth a scolding.

Later that night around supper time, she had forgotten about the snarfing incident and fed me my dinner as usual. She was surprised that I didn't demand my dinner like I do every night and every morning, but she thought little about it. Finally we headed for bed, where I proceeded to toot and toot and toot! My belly grumbled and ached and ached. Woman noticed I was REALLY bloated and remembered that I had eaten all of Buddy's food. I got another scolding and we went to sleep.

At around 5am, I woke Woman with whining and whimpering. I needed to go OUTSIDE! I needed to go NOW! Reluctantly, Woman took me out into the chilly Autumn morning and I did some serious BUSINESS! I felt a lot better, but I was still bloated to the gills. LOL!

I am feeling better today, and I have learned a lesson - only eat half of Buddy's food, and save the other half for later!