Maturity

Several months ago, we realized it was time to move our golden retriever, who is now 9 years old, onto a new food that is more suitable for older dogs. We did some searching to find the best formula for her, and settled on Iams active maturity large breed formula. I love Iam's marketing campaign. Instead of slapping the word "senior" on the bag, which would force owners to see in black and white that their dogs are getting old, they have side stepped the issue. By sticking the word "matuirty" there, we owners that are in denial about our dog's age, can continue on in our blissful state of ignorance.

The dogfood has helped Casey lose a few pounds, but we were ultimately hoping it would help Casey "mature" a little bit. We are coming to grips with the fact that our dog is a senior dog who will never be mature. In order to prevent Casey from eating trash, we will always have to have Casey-proof lids on the trash cans. We will always have to keep Kleenex boxes out of Casey's range, so that she doesn't spend her afternoon snacking on Kleenex. We will always be on the alert for the lip smacking sound at the top of the stairs, which means she is eating a roll of toilet paper. And as Scott was reminded this week, we will always have to be diligent about putting food out of Casey range if we plan on leaving the kitchen. The good news for us, in our attempt to Casey-proof the home, it's almost 100% kid proofed.

So whoever tells you that dogs and kids have nothing in common, clearly hasn't met Casey.