When you're the dog of tennis superstar Serena Williams you don't eat discount dried pet food. You eat gourmet, even when you're travelling on the road.
But the downside is your fancy room service can look better than your owner's, and even tempt them into mistakenly trying a mouthful.
That's what happened to Grand Slam winner Serena Williams. Whilst in Rome's Cavalieri hotel for the Rome Masters, Williams tried her Yorkshire terrier Chip's gourmet dog food.
She shared her experience with her fans via Snapchat, vlogging the aftermath of her taste testing gone wrong.
The Cavalieri offers its guests a "Doggy Menu" for their pet canines, who are allowed in some of their hotel rooms.
The menu offers dishes like 'Pasta Chicken and Vegetable' for $24 AUD (€15) and "Lamb and Rice" for $25 AUD (€16) which Williams said, "looks better than [her] food!"
"I was like that looks so good! It was fresh with greens and boiled chicken and beef and it was seared.. tenderly, and it was just perfection." Williams said of the 'Beef with Chicken Rice' she ordered for Chip the day before.
"I was like that looks so good! It was fresh with greens and boiled chicken and beef and it was seared.. tenderly, and it was just perfection." Williams said of the Beef with Chicken and Rice. (Serena Williams / Facebook) Source: Snapchat
Williams goes on to explain she ordered the salmon and rice for Chip so she could try a bit of it. Williams doesn't eat red meat, but eats fish, which is why she chose the salmon dish.
"I ate a spoonful. Don't judge me!" she cried into the camera.
However Williams's verdict was not a positive one, saying she found the salmon and rice tasted "a little bit like a house-cleaner thing".
Two hours later, Williams said she felt an immediate need to use the bathroom, falling sick with just one spoonful of the dog food.
Fortunately, Williams still won her Rome Masters quarterfinals match the following day against Christina McHale in three sets.
Williams ended her Snapchat story with a hilarious plea to the makers of the gourmet dog food that they should mark the food on the menu as not consumable for humans:
It come in the same take away box as human food, Williams said to her Snapchat followers. (Serena Williams / Facebook) Source: Snapchat
"I don't think it's consumable for humans. They should have wrote that!"
