Puppy Breath

Is there any better smell in the world than Puppy Breath? It is a smell that makes you want to cuddle close with a wiggly puppy that is eagerly licking at your face and just eat him/her with a spoon!!! It is a smell that makes you feel like a child all happy and wide-eyed over the chance to hug a puppy!!! It is a smell that warms your heart and gives you something to smile about all day long!!! It is a smell that rivals all other smells and comes out on top as THE best smell in the whole wide world – bar none!!!

What causes Puppy Breath? Why do they lose it after a while? Why does it turn into Dog Breath (a totally different smell and definitely NOT on the “great smells of the world” list….)?

These are the questions I am pondering today (along with “whatever happened to Peter Frampton’s beautiful hair?”) The reason I am pondering these questions is because my wonderful girls no longer have Puppy Breath! They have developed Dog Breath!!! Their teeth are in good shape and taken care of, but they still can knock you over with their breath from time to time! This morning was one of those times — I’m thinking they got into something I don’t want to know about out in the back yard this morning……

Some years ago, I read that Ben and Jerry’s was planning to launch a new ice cream flavor called “Puppy Breath” — I thought “wow – how brilliant! everyone will want to try that one! if it tastes half as good as the real smell smells like it would taste, it will be FABULOUS!!!!” After all, people flock to buy ice cream flavors like “Chubby Hubby” and “Chunky Monkey” – why not “Puppy Breath”? That sounds so much more appetizing than the other two I just mentioned!!! Although they didn’t provide any details of ingredients or taste, I imagined a light brown color with a very mild coffee/german chocolate flavor – YUM!!! I watched and watched for it — but, alas, it has never come out! I bet it was just a joke that suckered me into thinking it was real…………how cruel!!!!!