I'm going to Kroger and I need to know is IAMS dog food is on sale...

(Or, subtitle, yes, my articles are all gone now.  Which is likely to be a permanent situation.)

I'm going to Kroger, because I need to get some dog food and other stuff.  The last time I was at Kroger, the IAMS dog food was not on sale.  I still have enough for the next day or so.  But I do have a little brat dog and unfortunately, I have gotten him spoiled on IAMS.

I thought I would write a Gather "article" about this.  After all, what else is a "points whore" to do?  Wondering if anyone knows whether Kroger has put the IAMS dog food on sale seems to be almost the least offensive thing that I know of.  But knowing some readers and commenters, maybe they will be able to find something to take offense about this.

Maybe I shouldn't have a dog?  After all, the economy is tanking and everyone is in need.  Maybe there are countries where people are actually eating dogs for food.  And maybe there are Americans who are buying dog food to eat as food, as was depicted in the 1970s show Good Times, (you know the one with Jimmie "JJ" Walker).  Well, I KNOW they didn't have IAMS back then.  And even if they did, I wouldn't have fed it to my dog.  (My 1990s dog, not my 1970s dog!)

But here's a relatively innocuous request, and one that I thought I would put out to the Gather community.  My dog needs food and the last time I went to the grocery store to buy some, it wasn't on sale.

But as you can see, the subject of buying dog food has world wide and global-reaching political implications!   How dare I have a dog, when there are so many needy people?  And now, having dared to have a dog (where I picked him up for chump change, at the local humane society), how do I dare to feed him the most expensive dog food sold?

It was this month five years ago.  The Humane Society was "having a sale."  Instead of their usual $35 fee to adopt a dog, they were "on sale" for $20.  I had to FORCE them to take my $35.  That was after making a substantial donation to deworm and take care of another dog, a purebred dog, that was suffering from heartworms.  As soon as the news story hit, that there were some great purebred small dogs, there was a great rush to the Humane Society to get them.  I went to the Humane Society, and there was one, and I even gave him a name:  "Bennie."  I don't know why I picked that name, but it gave me focus.  I focused on Bennie, and paid for him to immediately be de-heartwormed. 

The Humane Society being what they are, they used my donation for something else.  Poor Bennie sat there and was not expedited for heartworm treatment.  Eventually I heard that they did worm him.  But before that, I went to the Humane Society to look after him, and I found another dog instead.  He was a dog that would like to break your heart.  He was a mutt (or a "potcake" as they call them in The Bahamas).  Part Jack Russell Terrier and part another breed, which I can't remember the name, but it is a very large dog with long legs.  So my new dog is just the funniest and cutest dog going.  He has incredibly long legs that he wraps himself around in contortions that only double-jointed human beings have. 

He's also loyal, devoted, special, loving, and during my darkest hours of 2004 and the years after, he kept me going.  He's kept me here.  After all, I have a very "dog-friendly house."  I won't move, because moving means that I would have to make my plans around the dog.  He is not an apartment dog.  He's spoiled rotten.  I won't unspoil him and I won't give him away. 

He deserves IAMS.  And IAMS he is going to get.  But I want to get it on sale.  Does anyone know if Kroger is having a sale on IAMS?