For Being So Smart, He Sure Can Be Stupid

Benny has always been too smart for his own good.  This is most obvious when he figures out how to open the refrigerator or get past two different kinds of baby locks in order to get into the garbage.

Because of this, it amazes me how stupid he can be sometimes.  Benny has always had a bit of an addiction to snow and ice and the stuff seriously makes him high.  He runs around outside sticking his nose in snow banks, eating a big mouthful of snow, and then jumps up with the strangest look in his eyes that can only be described as being high.

His habit of snow and ice eating is hysterical, but can be a bit irritating.  The amount of snow and ice he eats is directly related to how often we must take him outside to pee.  Yet, when he goes outside to pee, he eats more snow and ice and we get into a vicious cycle of snow eating and hourly trips outside.

But I can handle that.  I can handle the huge amount of pee trips he must make to rid himself of all the snow he eats.  What I don’t like is when he eats rock salt!  Yes, this dog eats rock salt!  He walks long the road and eats snow, ice, and rock salt!  It’s all mixed up with the snow, so he eats that as well.  How can that taste good?!

Rock salt is obviously not meant to be consumed.  Yesterday, Benny must have eaten a lot of it and wound up puking on our Oriental rug twice.  Why he feels the need to puke on that rug of all the flooring in our house is beyond me.  If he had just moved two feet, he would have puked on the hardwood floor instead.

I have no idea what possesses him to eat rock salt.  It’s disgusting and he pukes it up, which is more disgusting.  And he doesn’t learn from it, either.  He pukes it up and then wants to go outside and eat more.