dog food compromise

meanwhile, in the life lived, the incredible staring dog continues to do his thing on my day offs when i stay home writing or watching tv or whatever... he sits and stares hoping for food or a walk or just more attention (depending on time of day)... and he's getting a little better about staring at me eating when jackson is not home, he usually doesn't anymore, but he's such a beggar whenever he has any home of getting any scrap... alas, his age and kidneys and bladders stones and the vet says he can't have any food other than the very expensive hills prescription k/d diet, so he's sadly out of luck...

speaking of happiness and his food, i called the company that mail-orders the hills diet and they are quite inept at mail order which is odd since that is their business... i had to cancel two orders because the site somehow entered the quantities wrong and while on the phone i found out that there were more auto-ship orders that were not cancelled but they did not appear on the website and they would have been shipped and i would have been billed if i did not ask the third csr i spoke to today to double check my order one more time... a deliberate confusion to scam people?... seems so since it took multiple calls and requests to identify the "mistakes"...

and then i find out that the prescription for the food does not cover the treats, so i asked them to take the treats off the order so the order could actually be shipped (and not just charged to my card several times)... so anyway, they say the order is pending and should be shipped when it is processed, but could not give me an estimate... really poor quality shipping business for a very expensive prescription dog food that may actually be nutritional crap or at least not the right food...

sadly, jackson will not hear questioning her vet, so i buy it for them...