Cosmo: Chapter IV
#4 of Cosmo Series
Chapter 4
"You can choose between milk or some solid puppy food." Was the choice that Lou gave Cosmo.
"I'll take the um... solid food." He replied choosing the lesser of two evils.
"Good puppy, I'm glad that you chose to cooperate with me in this matter." She replied shifting him over to her left arm and pulling out a high chair that looked too big to be sized for a normal puppy.
"Now, I'm going to leave you and be back with some food, don't move again or this time you know the real consequences." She said sternly while firmly buckling him into the highchair and adding attaching a tray that had a locking mechanism under the tray, preventing him from removing the tray and escaping from the chair even if his paws were not useless.
"Is this really necessary?" He whined pawing with his mittened paws at the tray.
"Yes it is little one, Puppies like you can fall down and hurt themselves if they're not held in safely." She replied from the other room.
Cosmo then tried to shake the highchair to have it fall over and possibly loosen him, however the base was much too wide to allow that to happen and only wiggled slightly as a result of his efforts. Cosmo would not be beaten that easily, he tried to stand up and finding that the straps on his shoulders prevented that, tried to slide down only to meet a piece of hard plastic preventing him from doing that too.
"Shit," He swore under his breath. Unfortunately, Lou came into the room at the exact moment he said that.
"What was that? I'll have you know, puppies don't say those kinds of things, Don't make me catch you saying that again, that's another thing you're going to regret if you carry on with that kind of behavior." She scolded in a stern voice.
"I'm sorry." He whispered looking away about to cry again as his ears flattened. He didn't know why but Lou made his fear manifest itself in his submissive emotions, which almost never happened out in the streets.
It was then that Lou seriously doubted her morals and realized that she really needed to be loving rather than strict on Cosmo. Like a pincushion that had been stuck too many times, he was only a little puppy inside who had been hardened to the world and most certainly not a brat as described. It truly made her feel sorry for him, as he was in his heart still only a puppy who had never experienced playtime, friends, school or a loving parent, only the pain and exposure to the real world. She then proceeded to walk towards the sniffling wolf and pull him into an embrace.
"I'm sorry I did that Cosmo, I just wanted to make sure you don't use that language, puppies can't do that and you know that. You're my puppy Cosmo, I want you to grow up again as a responsible young adult, I can't let you say those kind of things around other people." She consoled in a soothing voice.
"Understand that I'm doing this out of love, not just to be mean, if I wanted to, I could have done so many things to you, yet I only took care of you and made sure you were fine while you slept. Now do you understand why you're here, I will not let you go Cosmo, I've come too far and sacrificed so much to have you as my puppy, my son. Everything will be clear to you as soon as I can, however the time is not right now." She said looking him in the eyes, not with fury, but with love, the type of love a mother looks at a newborn with.
"Now, lets get you fed." She took her paw and dabbed at his eyes wiping away whatever tears were remaining while pulling out a jar of beef puppy food and another jar of mixed vegetables and meats. When she opened the first jar, the smell wafted into Cosmo's nostril making him immediately identify the brown jar of food as beef, he had more trouble with the second green one, as it had some sort of chicken mixed with two other things he could not identify.
"On the menu today is strained beef and chicken mixed with spinach and cabbage." She said tying a bib around his neck.
"Yeaghh I think I'll take the bottle..." Was all Cosmo could say in response to the second item before Lou stuffed a mouthful of strained beef into his muzzle.
"Hmmm... not bad..." He said before another mouthful went in. This process continued until the jar of strained beef was finished.
"Now for item number two." said Lou as she took a spoonful from the green.
"I think I'm feeling full," Said Cosmo trying to excuse himself from eating the horrid mixture. "I'm feeling a little tired too." He continued through clenched teeth.
"Nice try, but a little fiber never killed a wolf, now open up little one." She said unconvincingly. "Fine then, I'll play dirty too." She continued smiling at the obstinate wolf. She walked away coming back with a funnel tip bottle of vinegar, which she slowly but surely worked between his lips and squeezed.
"Bleghhh..." Was all he could say trying to spit out the vinegar in disgust before she stuffed in a mouthful of the green substance. It didn't taste as bad as he had thought, It tasted a little like some rotten fish he had the other day, plus with the vinegar, it didn't taste as bad.
"Oh God, It tastes like rotten..." Was what he choked out before she stuffed in another mouthful.
"Fish, , I know, I keep telling them that it tastes like that but hey it's good for you." She finished for him. "It contains, Omega 3 and other oils for growing puppies, like you. They love to put all the bad-tasting stuff into one jar so that you don't throw up at everything they give you. Now lets get this over with." She finished.
"I'm still not going to eat it." He said stubbornly.
"Suits me just fine." She said grinning and pulling out the vinegar bottle.
After a very messy feeding, thank goodness for the bib, the sleeper was spared. Lou pulled a protesting Cosmo from his seat after unbuckling him and removing the tray. She then proceeded to bottle feed the slightly large puppy. She used a bottle of formula that had been laced with trace amounts of diuretics, laxatives, muscle relaxants and sedatives so that he couldn't taste it but would still make him into a puppy and as dependent as possible on his mommy.
"Now, little one, I'm going to feed you a bottle, I'm sure you know how it works, all you need to do is to suck on it. It's like a paci, ok? And don't worry it doesn't taste as bad as you'll think, it's just some formula." She said softly all the while stroking his ears.
"Okay, but it better not taste too bad, but after that disgusting mush, I think there can't be anything worse than that." He replied sarcastically.
"Oh there is." She replied sarcastically quickly lodging the bottle into his muzzle. "But not today."
She began to stroke his head fur gently as she watched him nurse on the bottle. Unbeknownst to Cosmo, the moment he locked eyes with Lou, a bond was formed, weak but still a bond.
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