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Easter hunt for dogs

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I think I’ve invented what could be an Easter Hunt for dogs instead of young kids.

Every once in a while when my puppy seems to be acting hungry or deserves a treat I’ll get a very small handful of dry dog food. I throw a couple on the ground ahead of me and whiles she’s occupied I’ll drop one or two somewhere else. Throwing one on a couch or chair, at the base of the stairs and so on.

She loves it. It becomes a food hunt for her and it keeps her busy for 10 to 15 minutes at a time because even once she’s retrieved all the hidden treats she’ll keep checking around to make sure she didn’t miss any. I guess that’s probably because the smell of the food is still hanging around.

Do you do fun things with your dog or other pets to make it think and have some fun?





Getting an iPod – which one should I buy?

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Now that Spring is almost here I know I’ll be getting outside more often. Actually I’ve been outside a lot this winter thanks to our puppy! Last winter there were days I didn’t go out at all, especially when it was really cold or snowing simply because I didn’t have to, but this year I had to go outside each day several times to walk the dog and or to step outside with her so that she could do her business.

Our puppy is getting older too so our walks will soon be longer. She’ll be able to endure longer walks and so will I! So … I’ve been thinking about finally getting an iPod. Can you believe that we don’t have one yet? Are we the last people around to not have an iPod or what?

I think I’ll enjoy listening to music as I walk the dog.

I’m going to see if I can find any deals at directbuy. I know the older models have come down in price, but really I’m lost … I don’t know what kind of iPod to buy. I’m not really interested in one of the video capable models. I’ll be walking and I don’t think I can watch a video and walk the dog at the same time.

We have a large music collection that I could transfer to the iPod so I guess I’ll need one with a fair amount of space.

So … what kind of iPod should I get?

Puppie’s got a head scarf on

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A few days ago I posted about having fun with dressing up our puppy. Well I didn’t really dress her up … I just put the bandanna that we’d been given by the Petsmart groomers on her in a different way.

I made it into a scarf …

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I didn’t post photos the other day when I mentioned what I’d been up to with our little Lab. The photos were still on the camera, but I finally got around to uploading them onto the computer so now you can see how silly our dog looked.

We have a lot of elderly neighbors – mostly Macedonian and Greek and they tend to wear head scarves when they are out and about. Midnight really looked like one of my neighbors that day. We’d just put ointment in her eyes – she might have an eye infection (she’s been treated with medicated ointment several times since we got her) or maybe allergies – and the ointment made her eyes look a bit watery in the photos.

So what do you think? Does she look like a pitiful little dog with the scarf around her head or what?

Pampered Puppy

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We have a very pampered puppy.

She has so many toys it’s not funny. I jokingly call her my yuppy. She’s even got two doggy beds. Of course the one that’s in her crate has to be removed during the day because she’s still teething and lately she’s taken to chewing on everything again – including her doggy bed!

A couple of months ago I ordered her a new doggy bed from a Canadian company called Mammoth. Our dog is a Labrador Retriever and her first doggy bed is a donut shape and it’s only about two feet long. Midnight is 6 months old now and she just fits in the original doggy bed. It will be too small soon … so, as I was saying a couple of months ago I ordered her a new bed, one that will be more than big enough even when she’s fully grown.

I think the new bed is about 40 inches around! It’s huge! Oh and it’s filled with a memory foam mattress or well maybe not a mattress but memory foam. It’s so soft! She really is pampered! I wish my bed were that comfortable!

The new bed is too big to fit in the crate. Well we could cram it in, but we probably won’t do that. Right now it’s in our living room on the floor in front of the TV and it’s filled with her toys and a real bone that she likes to gnaw on.

I think we’ve finally got enough things to keep our dog happy for a long time. Well unless she goes nuts and destroys all her toys, that is!

Do you pamper your dog or cat? Does your pet have more toys than you did when you were a kid?

Oh what a headache!

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I’ve barely posted on any of my many blogs over the last two days. On Wednesday I woke up with a severe migraine. I’d been headachey the night before, but I thought a good sleep would make it go away. It didn’t.

My headache just got worse and worse throughout the day. I just lay on the couch unable to get up.

I’m so grateful that we have a crate for our puppy. She ended up being in the crate most of the day because of my migraine. If we didn’t have a crate or if she’d been out she would have been jumping on me all day and making me feel worse. Don’t worry. I did let her out twice during the day and she had lunch too. She wasn’t totally deprived!

I still had a bit of headache on Thursday when I awoke and I guess it stayed with me most of the day but it was a lot better than the day before!

I haven’t had a headache that bad for a long time! I don’t know if I was fighting something or if the headache came on as a result of the strange weather we’ve been having here. On Wednesday we had snow and an ice storm all day and today we’re expecting a LOT of snow.

What do you do when you get a bad headache? Or are you like my mother in law and you’ve never had one?

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