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Yesterday there was an elderly woman in front of me at the checkout in Waitrose buying 40 large beef-flavoured packets of Cesar dog food. It was most odd. She had two people helping her pack her bags (she also had a lot of other shopping, but it was the large quantity of dog food that I noticed most). She appeared to have wiped out the supermarket’s entire stock of this particular brand, as the third and fourth slabs of 10 packets were both still fully wrapped in cardboard. Presumably having already picked up everything on the shelves, she had had to get the staff to get her whatever else they had in the stockroom. Maybe she would have bought more if they had had it.

When the cashier had finished ringing up her purchases, she asked the lady: “is that all he eats?” Presumably, like me, the cashier thought that buying such a large quantity of dog food was not entirely normal, but the lady seemed rather surprised that anyone would ask such a question of her, and took ages to reply that yes, that is, in fact, all he eats.

I’m sure this is not normal, but not being a dog owner, I wouldn’t know. Anyone?

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  1. Cats are definitely, definitely picky about food, and if you find one thing they like, you tend to stick with it, to the point of–yes–buying out the store’s entire stock of that particular food.

    Dogs, in my experience, tend to be less finicky, but having said that, what you describe isn’t really surprising.

  2. Fair enough, I was just wondering. It looked pretty odd to me, but what would I know.

  3. Reminds me of the time I saw a man in Tesco buying 12 large bottles of bubble bath.

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