today Josh and I are quite perturbed. Its been one week (we got Smokey Feb 27th) and he WAS eating just fine and dandy. Today he just ate a little bit, but that isn't TOO worrisome...

What we ARE worried about is...

Today (March 6) while Josh was petting him, Smokey barked and growled and snapped at Josh (and it was NOT a playful bark/growl). Josh and I scolded him and we thought that was the end of it... when he wasn't eating and sounded like he wanted to hurl we figured its cuz he's not feeling good.

THEN, Josh was HANDING Smokey a chew toy. Smokey growled at him then too. Which was totally weird. He got scolded again.

THEN, for NO reason, Smokey started growling and barking at NOTHING (he was looking at a wall with nothin on it)... Of course he got scolded again. We bopped him on the nose, but since we don't want Smokey to be scared when we go to pet him, there needs to be another way to scold him.

SO, needless to say we are a bit worried. If he was growling because of us trying to take his food away we'd understand and KNOW what to do. But he's growling cuz he got petted, he got HANDED his chew toy, and for no reason!

He's an awesome pet, its just this is really disconcerting to us (especially me).