Smoked Leg of Lamb

 Some of you long time readers may remember this incident. In about 2005, I smoked a leg of lamb. It was horrible. I don't know what I did or didn't do but I've never tried to cook a leg of lamb again. It smelled weird while smoking and we had Speck, the Dachshund, back then. There was something about that lamb that scared Speck half to death. While it was cooking, he would not go outside and for weeks and weeks, he would not go near the smoker. He would make a huge circle around it but wouldn't get close to it.

The other day Chad was here and he was telling us that Nicole's mom had bought a leg of lamb and had called Chad for advice on how to cook it. He said "Mom, all I could remember was how scared Speck was of that smoker after you smoked that leg of lamb."

Vince and I both thought it was so funny that Chad remembered that incident from 20 years ago. I'm thinking if that same thing happened today, Oscar would be like Speck was and Cooper wouldn't even notice it. But . . I'm not smoking another leg of lamb so we don't have worry about it.  :)

Oscar and His Nails - Again

How many posts can I write about Oscar and his nails? You know me . . many posts!  :)

Yesterday he jumped up on my lap and kept staring at the tray on the table next to where I sit and stitch. He would look at the tray, then look at me, then look at the tray and look at me. He does things like that when he sees something he wants me to look at - a bug or Cooper has something he isn't supposed to have. I thought it was a bug but then I realized he was looking at his nail clippers. I picked them up and said "Do you want your nails cut?" He whirled himself around so he could sit with his back to me, which is how I hold him with his paws sticking forward so I can get to them; he sat there like that holding that right paw out to be cut.

Obviously, I just cannot believe he's doing this. I found one nail that needed just a smidgen taken off so I cut that, gave both Oscar and Cooper their treats. Cooper thinks any time he's going to eat, he needs to go into the crate, which is fine so I close him up in the crate and I toss them to Oscar and he runs across the room and grabs it and sometimes I give him a second one .. and sometimes I'm so happy with how he's acting about those nails, I give him a third one. Of course, Cooper gets as many as Oscar gets . . we have to be fair.  

It isn't really a treat. It's a piece of the T/D Dental dog food. The chunks are much, much bigger than their food and they think it's a treat and it helps clean their teeth so I'm ok with giving them several per day.

I would never ever have guessed we would be playing a game to cut his nails and Oscar would be enjoying it.