New proposed standards of measurement

[altivo]

After serving the dogs their dinners tonight, we decided to propose two new units of measurement specifically adapted to canine food appreciation:

• The dish-inch is defined as the amount of persistence in appreciation that displaces a stainless steel dog dish that weighs 6 ounces by a distance of one inch. The metric equivalent, of course, is the dish-centimeter which uses a dog dish that weighs 100 grams.


• The lick-second is defined as the amount of appreciation that causes one standard dog to continue licking the dish for one second after all the food has disappeared. Metric uses the same unit.

This proposal is hereby opened for comments from the public.

Comments

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Inch? Give Otto something really good in his bowl, and he goes on tour with it.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Precisely. So our elkhound-collie mix, Sarah, rated tonight's offering at about 28 dish-inches and an uncounted number of lick-seconds because I didn't have a stop watch handy. Perhaps Otto rates his dinner at 150 dish-inches or more. [grin]

[chakawolf.livejournal.com]

There's also the 'magical food effect' when the dog checks the bowl repeatedly, when he knows damn good and well that there's nothing in it!