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HappyHoundBiscuits.com
has a product now! Here’s a pic without the label.

There is no label because I wasn’t well-prepared when I went to the UPS store. Not because I needed fitness equipment, but because the label and logo, etc was still in .ai form.
Why am I such a slacker? I didn’t even look at them to make sure they were pdf or gif, or some such.
UPS is the best place to print because they are about half the price of anywhere else and they let you pick you own file out of your own flash drive, or even email.
I really like UPS for printing.

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The first batch of really crunchy dog cookies is done!
It took days of drying in the sun after a brief bake in the oven.
Before dog owners worldwide start looking at a diet pill review magazine for their snack-happy dog (and these are proven to be very tasty), there are a couple of bugs I need to work out.
I need a cookie press that holds production amounts of ‘cookie’ dough, and I need a faster drying time.
My panel of judges have approved the recipe.
Here’s part of the test panel, relaxing on the couch.
They let us sit there, too, sometimes.

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I am as excited as I can be about the birth of my new enterprise! Break out the cigars!!
So go over and see some of the great posts and videos I have been fortunate enough to find.
Happy Hounds Biscuits dot com’s blog page is filled with posts from talented bloggers and videographers from around the world. Thank you, you many talented people. I hope you get some link backs and viewers from letting me use your posts.

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Third installment in the kibble salmonella scare:
You should never let your guard down when it comes to huge corporations. They’re just trying to make some money, in accord with the American Dream (and it is a very good dream, I love capitalism).
Corporations don’t make the decisions; people make the decisions, and they have to please the board, which is made up of people who are yet another step removed from whatever the corporation does to make the money that makes the board happy. How can they police themselves? Really. It’s a very rare corporation that has any morals. The individuals that make up the corporate entity may be (and mostly are) very fine people, but a corporation cannot have a soul or conscience, really, it’s not in the nature of the beast.
That leaves it up to the consumer. The American Way (and again, it’s a darn good way).
Somehow i missed the salmonella poisoning issue of 2007, but found plenty on line about it the other day.
In August 2007, Mars Petcare voluntarily recalled select bags of its Red Flannel Large Breed Adult Formula dry dog food and Krasdale Gravy dry dog food.
Maybe I missed that because I had already started feeding them human-grade kibble (Canidae)and started cooking for my dogs, so I felt safe. I researched and settled on Canidae kibble for the human-grade ingredients and low carbohydrates, which dogs don’t need. I found some easy and affordable crock pot recipes. For instance:

Crock Pot Dog Dinner
chicken legs and thighs (we use the cheap ten-pound bag)
carrots
white rice or macaroni

Break the carrots into a couple of pieces and lay them on the bottom of the crockpot and put a layer of chicken on top of that so the chicken won’t stick. Pour in some rice or macaroni (a cup or less) and top with as much chicken as will fill the pot. Add enough water to leave a couple of inches from the top so it won’t overflow.
Set the crock pot up on the porch if you have a small kitchen like me, and out of your pets’ reach (it gets hot). The porch is also great because it smells up the whole house when it’s inside.
Let it cook four hours or so on high or six on medium, the chicken should fall off the bone when you stir it.
Take the long bones out, the rest will be so cooked that it’s okay. You need to use your judgement based on your own dog. Cool to wrist-temperature before you feed it to them and keep it refrigerated since there are no preservatives. Once it cools you can skim off the fat for low-cal diets. Use this in the same amounts as your usual canned portion.
Sometimes I add (very cheap) liver trimmings or pork kidney and the dogs really love it. Boy can that stuff stink while it cooks!

The reason I use white rice and pastas is because one of our dogs has an occasional digestive thing and the vet told me that if she wants roughage, she will eat weeds and grass, but bulk in the form of brown rice and whole wheat bran is probably part of her problem and not that good for her, although carrots in small amount are allowed. (She really loves her cooked carrots).
Cooking every few days is no problem for us and it’s a lot cheaper than canned. I also feel I’m generating less waste in the form of packaging than I did with canned, so that adds to the appeal for me. Dogs love this food and they don’t even care that it’s really, really good for them.
Lack of trust in commercial dog food generated by big business drove me to the point of cooking for my dogs, and it turns out it’s a good place to be driven to.
Good luck to you whatever you decide.

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Jeff brought Lur (his name is now Boyd) over for the weekend. I told him to just take his time returning. He laughed.
Lur knew right where he was, slammed out of the car and into the house. Had the submissive wee-wees for the first half hour or so, then settled right in.
He doesn’t know what to think of the new fountain. Everyone else dashes right in after the ball, and I think he will soon.
He’s such a love. He was hungry, and his nails are too long, but he really looks great and his attitude is real fine. Jeff’s doing a good job.
I might send care packages of frozen meals home with him, though. You know bachelors, never anything to eat in the house.
Boyd was happy to tear into some frozen eggs, I’m spoiling him, though. Between the chicken bites and all the eggs, he actually just ate the yolks out of the eggs once he got them open. I’ll just smash the egg whites into their dinner tonite.

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