My First Blog

      Hello, World! My name is Scout. I am an eighteen month old Golden Retriever/aspiring food blogger. I know the world is full of food bloggers, but I feel that as a dog I can add a new perspective as of yet unheard. My plan is to blog once a week about tastes and bites I had that week. I welcome your feedback on what new foods you've tried and enjoyed as well. My masters keep me on a pretty restricted diet of dog food, but I am able to be creative and adventurous and I've tried many tasty things when they're not looking (and sometimes when they are).
    So far this week, my tastes have been fairly normal. Here is my list of things I've tried:

• Dog food with mozzarella cheese
• Trader Joe's salt and pepper potato chips
• sour cream
• apple slices (several given, one stolen)
• Pumpkin dog treat with sprinkles

• The playstation remote
• Harvest pillows
• Socks
• 3 blankets
• pencil

    I separated the list into commonly accepted foods and less traditional varieties. As far as commonly accepted foods go, I would highly recommend the addition of mozzarella to any dry dog food. The smell of cheese drives me wild yet I feel the mozzarella adds a particularly sophisticated taste to the otherwise dreary dog food. 

      Sometimes items that are typically "human" foods are harder to come by and must be sampled on the sly. I was able to get in two good licks of my masters' sour cream before either of them noticed and even though it meant punishment, the rewards of a sweet smelling yet deliciously tangy cream far outweighed it.

   Now to the less traditional. Do you ever just need a midnight snack? Your masters seem to need rest once it gets dark, but let's face it, you've been sleeping all day, night is our time to party - am I right? So this week, my masters were sleeping and I just couldn't seem to rest. So I did what anyone does when they can't sleep - I turned on the tv and decided to watch some Netflix. But once I had that remote in my mouth I just couldn't let that flavor go. The texture is the first thing you notice, hard plastic mixed with soft buttons make this remote perfect for gnawing. It has just the right give to make you feel like you're making progress contrasted with a toughness that's truly satisfying. Sadly, Nathan got up once he heard the TV turn on and I didn't actually get to destroy this one, but I've got my eye on it.

  

    Brenda seems to have a thing for soft fabric and who can blame her? But she just doesn't want to share! In the harvest season she has put out two new pillows for me. They smell so different from the other pillows we have, which makes them hard to resist. They not only are soft and full of a squishy center that I can't wait to sink my teeth into, but they also have beading and stitching beggin to be torn apart. It's food that is both fun and satisfying. But I've only been able to get a small taste of each. You can keep your pumpkin spice latte, my dream is a harvest pillow or two between my teeth - that's the true taste of fall.

      Thank you for reading my perspective on what's good food. I hope you were enlightened on dog fare and I look forward to sharing more with you as time goes on. Until then - happy chewing.