When he arrived home that evening, the bowl was empty.
“I thought if you got hungry enough you’d eat that stuff,” he said to Mr. Tibbs.
He put a can of the new moist food into the dish. Mr. Tibbs sniffed it and left the kitchen disdainfully. When Ben came to the kitchen the next morning, however, the bowl was empty. After that, Tibbs accepted his new regimen. A couple of weeks later, Ben noticed Tibbs was looking a bit sleeker, more like his former trim self.
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Kris Anders had decided he and Ben should have a working lunch twice a week. They had food brought in as they exchanged information and ideas about how the department was running. Ben was uncomfortable with the arrangement. Anders, thoroughly professional, seemed sincere in asking for Ben’s take on things. But it was diffi
