I mentioned in a previous posting that my brother, Patrick, made a paper mache dog to accompany his groom’s cake at their wedding reception. The dog’s face was smeared with icing and it was positioned over the cake, which had several large bites missing. Khara, the photographer, got several good photos of the dog and cake.
Photo Credit: Khara Plicanic – KaBloom Studios
The dog represented here is Henry, Patrick’s yellow lab.
The sculpture of the dog eating the cake is not just a cute idea. Henry has a long and proud history of surfing kitchen counters for unwatched food. Many loaves of bread and half-eaten entrees have been claimed by this counter-clearing canine. So imagine our lack of surprise when we came back from an outing one day last week to discover that the leftover wedding cake had actually been partially devoured by a dog.
If you click on the photo, it’s pretty easy to see where the clean cut line of the knife stops and the bite marks begin. The floor was also covered with foil that had been licked clean. While some were quick to point out that Henry was not the only dog in the house that day, I believe that the sculpture from the reception (art imitating life) proved prophetic (life re-imitating art).
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Being a dog Person, I got a really big kick out of the sculpture. The half eaten cake is hysterical. I have walked away from a half eaten sandwich I left on a plate on the coffee table to find it clean as a whistle. My friend had her husband’s boss and his wife over for dinner one night and she had a beef tenderloin resting on the kitchen table while they were having salad. When she came in to serve the tenderloin, it was not to be found, the platter was clean. She thought she had gone crazy and was looking in the oven when her black lab walked by licking his chops. Needless to say, they made reservations at that point. But, we still love our little four legged friends.
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