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Peanut and Cookie

The arizona poodle rescue guys think they can place her, so we’ll try that.
I might even get approved to foster some of their pups once Cookie is gone. I don’t think I need anything special. If I do I am sure they have an equipment leasing arrangement.
Cookie always looks a little worried. She’s relaxing a little bit, but it’s slow work. She spends a lot of time in the closet, she has a nest arranged back there and her favorite pillow and woolie blanket. This morning on the walk she was feeling her oats! What a cutie! And I’ve discovered that she likes a sweater when it’s cold. I think her name might have been Cucaracha, Cuci for short. Or maybe I’m imagining things.

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La Fea means the ugly one (feminine) in Spanish. I named Fay that when she was just a pocket-sized baby. I wasn’t meant to stick, that was just what we called that dog while I tried to find her a home, five or six years ago.
But look at her now! She’s so cute when she’s chasing varmints.
I think the lizards are asleep, so she must be after a rodent.

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My two dog clients will be going home today. I really enjoyed them, Foxy and Kiwi. Kiwi is the giant German Shepard and Foxy is something else. I can’t figure out what, but she’s so cute! They are real good girls, I had them for about 10 days and really fell in love with them.
But their mom is coming home today, all rested from her cruise, so the dogs will probably get real excited when they see her. Hope I get them again.

Kiwi

Foxy

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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.

One happy hound

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One way a dog’s meat-and-greens prefering digestive system helps dogs not get salmonella poisoning is that dog digestion is so rapid. They are a ‘short gut’ animal, with a digestive system only three (3) times the length of their bodies, and the subsequent speed of digestion helps the meal and any parasites or bacteria move out faster. The concentration of hydrochloric acid is ten times the amount found in vegetarian-type animal digesteve systems.
Compared to human digestion, the time for bacteria to be exposed to their system is far less. Compare total dog digestion time, from the bowl to the baggie, in a dog with a very healthy diet at 2-4 hours total digestion time. Two to four hours. Add more carbohydrates to a dog’s diet and you can slow the digestion down to 6-8 hours. That’s in a diet with lots of carbs, like most kibble-only diets. Try to compare that with human digestion. Go on, I dare you. I don’t know what human digestive time is average, but I know it’s a lot longer than that..
That’s another good reason we get the salmonella bacteria reaction and dogs don’t.

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Last year, March of 2007, when we were unwittingly poisoning our pets with Chinese gluten products, I studied dog food, and blogged, and chatted, and felt pretty up-to-date on dog nutrition. I thought I was current on the dangers of feeding commercial dog food to my babies. I thought I knew enough about dog nutrition and what’s available on the market to make informed decisions about my dogs’ diet. I felt confident that I could protect them with my great big smart brain by being informed.
Being a busy person, I soon forgot to stay in regular touch with my new online pals; people who were grieving because they had poisoned their pet when they thought they were giving them a treat. Or worse, when Fluffy and Rover didn’t want to eat the regular pet food they figured Fluffy and Rover were spoiled and left it down and encouraged them to eat it anyway.
How hard is it to deal with guilt like that? Bringing poison right into your home and encouraging your loved ones to eat it. Pretty damn hard to recover from that kind of thing. Folks were really tore up about it, as you can imagine, and we formed some pretty close alliances, trying to help each other understand the madness.
Today I went back on some of those feeds and rooms for old times’ sake, just to see what the haps, you know, and GEEZ, it’s not over, I guess. Today I discovered the pet food salmonella bacteria poisonings of March 2007 that were finally reported in August 2007, and revisited the euthanized pet rendering issue.
I didn’t know dogs could get salmonella, so I went online http://www.mountaindogfood.com/HealthCare/Salmonella.htm
and found that they cannot, because dogs are built to eat meats and greens.
The problem seems to have been humans contracting salmonella poisoning through contact with the kibble. All across the country, people who didn’t wash their hands after they fed their dogs got sick. There was one reported case (I read it on the internet, so it has to be true) of a child getting sick from being in the same room as an open bag of kibble. So the net was buzzing. Uproars of indignation for our horrible petfood industry safety standards.
Still a lot of nagative buzz around the salmonella thing. And it’s true that we shouldn’t have to worry that something we feed our pets is dangerous to handle, at least without warning labels. But who doesn’t wash their hands after feeding the pets?
Hand washing is the number one line of defense against food-borne illness. And then there is hand washing again, since it’s the most important! and finally washing the counter top, utensils, etc. Washing the dog dishes with soap and water was mentioned, but my dogs don’t get that kind of pampering every time. My hands do, they get soap and water after handling money, dirty dishes, dog food, the scummy tennis ball that happens to be today’s favorite in the back yard. Lucky hands.

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1 1/2 to 2 lb. chicken necks
1/2 to 1 lb. chicken, beef or pork livers
1 to 2 c. rice
several carrots
water to fill

Line crockpot bottom with carrots, add meat, pour rice over and fill close to top with water.
Set on low for eight or ten hours or high for four to six hours. Cool completely and store in refrigerator.

Australian Cattle Dogs love it mixed with a good-quality kibble. We use Canidae because there are no mystery ingredients and NO GLUTEN and no glutinized products.

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We got Reddy and Lur back….. stupid people don’t know that
1. you need to be home for the first few days you get a new dog, not on a business trip to chicago.
2. dogs don’t immediately accept every new change you throw at them (for instance a day care center at your home with no place for the dog to hang out while it’s going on)
2. leave a puppy outside all day and night alone and he’s bound to bark.

I am just glad that we got them back from those stupid people. I do wish I’d had a chance to train the people, Lur’s cituation might have had a better outcome, except i really believe that he wanted the dog but she did not. that won’t work. but the rednecks who had Reddy probably couldn’t be educated.
so we have 6 dogs again. they are all really well-behaved, and surprisingly calm, but we have Reddy and Lur in school anyway. first class starts Saturday. posting more ads.

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