stoutfellow | One, Two, Three...

I buy more than one kind of treat for my dogs: regular treats, given several times a day, and special treats, once a day at most. Currently, for special treats, I give them Beneful Dental Twists. These come in bags, of two kinds: ten regular twists, or twenty-four mini-twists. Given the sizes of the treats and of my dogs, I generally buy the mini-twists. Buster and Gracie love them; their bouncing as I open the other bag is as nothing compared to their frantic joy when I open up the Dental Twists.

Now, I hand out Twists two at a time - one per dog. Being a mathematician, I have been surprised to find, on more than one occasion, a single Twist remaining in the bag. I finally decided to actually count the treats; I spent the last couple of weeks making tick-marks on a convenient sheet of paper each time I gave the dogs treats. When the bag was empty, there were twenty-two ticks. Thinking about it, I couldn't be sure that I hadn't forgotten to make marks one day. Today, then, when I brought home a new bag, I decided to immediately count them all. After opening the bag, I gave treats to Buster and Gracie and dumped the rest into a bowl, which I then counted.

Including the two that I had given out at the beginning, the bag contained twenty-six treats.

I am semi-seriously considering counting each bag I buy for, say, the next six months, to see what the distribution is like.

:is curious: