Ask Miss Sunshine 4/4/2012

Sunshine here with my weekly advice column. Make sure you use the form over to the right to put in questions for me. Every question between now and 4/30/2012 gives you a chance to win a blue tag collar. The same type of tag collars that I wear! You can enter as many times as you want.

I don't know who sent in this question, but they have a very valid one!

Dear Miss Sunshine,

Why don't the mommas feed us more? Don't they know how hungry we are?

Well my fellow puppy friend, you need to learn how to work it! If your too much of a pest you never get any extra cookies. You have to act like you don't want it.

Technique #1 Always be super polite. If your humans are eating at the table or on the couch, make sure you lay down at the farthest place possible. They will always go "oh what a well behaved polite skinny puppy!" and you get extra table scraps.  This also works if they are eating on the couch while your trying to sleep on the couch. If you drool on their plate you will NEVER get any numnums. You must never take any food off that plate unless your told to. I sure learned that the hard way. Rainy always gets lots of numnums.

Technique #2 Always be hungry! When your laying on your side try to angle yourself on the dog bed so that your ribs stick up. Almost like your on a hill with your side. This will make the humans look at you and think you really need some extra food to cover up those giant ribs.

Technique #3 Eat non food items to help fill that giant hole inside you. My most successful lately has been eating a pile of dust/grass clippings that was being swept into a pile in the kitchen.  The humans were horrified! Tasted pretty darn good though...

Technique #4 Train your humans. I have trained my Mommy to give me a cookie every time we potty outside. After you have that behavior down reliably, you can pee out two drops every 15 minutes on the weekends. That equals A LOT of cookies. To make this successful you also have to train your humans to let you outside when you ask so it's a bit more complicated.

Technique #5 Let the humans think they are teaching you something. If you act like you can't catch cookies they will spend hours with you practicing. They will practice with cheese balls and even pop corn! This can easily fill your belly every night.

Just remember you get more success with being behaved than being pushy and just  taking what you want. We are able to get tons of food with these steps. breakfast on weekends, yogurt, ice cream, pop corn, bacon, hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, turkey, etc.

Good luck on your mission! It takes lots of work to get that belly full!