Barley the Lurcher Loves to Eat

Barley, our lovely Lurcher has several favourite things in life.
Eating.
Playing.
Sleeping.
Not necessarily in that order.

Barley would happily spend all day, and night, in bed sleeping.

He would also happily spend hours playing, with his toys, and with me and Mr.R.
By playing with us I mean nibbling, he likes to nibble - especially me.
I guess I must taste good.

Barley is always obedient when there's food on offer, he instantly sits.

And that nicely leads me on to eating.
Like a lot of dogs, Barley loves to eat. He will eat anything, literally - it doesn't even have to be food.

We feed him a healthy balanced diet of two home-cooked meals a day. He also has the occasional treat.
This huge bone was a freebie from a local butcher. We'd popped in to buy some ox hearts for Barley, and lamb chops for our lunch, and the butcher asked if we'd like some beef knuckles for Barley.
Barley barked a loud, Yes!
He didn't really, but I like the thought of it.

I was standing outside the butcher shop with Barley, while Mr.R was inside making the purchases.
As soon as we got home Barley got to enjoy gnawing on one of the beef knuckles.
He was a very happy chappy indeed.
Do you give your dog raw bones?

Lamb Ribs

A few days ago Mr.R popped in to the local butchers to buy some ox hearts and liver for the dog, Barley loves hearts, and liver, well, he loves pretty much all food.
Anyway, as Mr.R stood waiting to be saw the butcher had lamb ribs, in the meat counter, not on his person - that would be weird, so Mr.R bought some ribs for us to nibble on.

In the evening Mr.R bunged the lamb ribs in the oven to roast, no sauce, just plain and simple, and seriously tasty.

As the ribs were finger food, we decided to munch them sitting on the sofa in front of the TV.
We were closely watched by Barley, who seemed most unimpressed that we were gnawing on the bones, making mmm sounds, and licking our fingers while he had no ribs to eat.
We're not cruel, we did save a morsel for Barley which he swallowed so fast I doubt it even touched the sides.

Ribs!
Do you love 'em?