"Swag."
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Dogs and Kids: Summer Bonding Time
4 years ago
Monday, April 29, 2013
Crazy Dawgs!
Sorry for the late posting!
"Swag."
Pic from: http://www.funnydogsite.com/pictures/This_Is_A_Cool_Dog631.htm
"Swag."
Pic from: http://www.funnydogsite.com/pictures/This_Is_A_Cool_Dog631.htm
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Extreme K9s 101!
Today's extreme K9 is Julie!
"Julie, a 3-year-old girl living in Pierzwin, Poland, befriended a stray black dog who would often stop by her house for a little attention. And that is exactly where the young girl was last seen, playing with the pup in her backyard, before she went missing earlier this month. Townspeople and rescue officials searched for the girl, but it wasn't until they heard the barks of that faithful dog the next day that they were able to locate Julie, freezing, in a nearby forest. The dog not only ensured that Julie was found, but also helped her survive the night, one firefighter said."
Article from: http://theweek.com/article/index/241153/7-inspiring-stories-of-stray-dogs-saving-perfect-strangers
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"Julie, a 3-year-old girl living in Pierzwin, Poland, befriended a stray black dog who would often stop by her house for a little attention. And that is exactly where the young girl was last seen, playing with the pup in her backyard, before she went missing earlier this month. Townspeople and rescue officials searched for the girl, but it wasn't until they heard the barks of that faithful dog the next day that they were able to locate Julie, freezing, in a nearby forest. The dog not only ensured that Julie was found, but also helped her survive the night, one firefighter said."
Article from: http://theweek.com/article/index/241153/7-inspiring-stories-of-stray-dogs-saving-perfect-strangers
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Bark out the Facts!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Bone Appetit!
Today's cool recipe is Jessica Gorman's Olive Oil and Bacon Truffles!
"Ingredients:
1/2 pound bacon
3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup beef broth
3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO)
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350° and line a baking sheet with foil.
2. In a large skillet, cook the bacon over medium heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the bacon to paper towels to drain, reserving the grease. Let the bacon cool slightly, then crumble.
3. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal and crumbled bacon. In a large measuring cup, stir together 1 1/3 cups warm water and the broth and pour into the dry ingredients. Add the EVOO and stir together to form a loose dough. Knead on a work surface until smooth.
4. Divide the dough into balls of the appropriate size for your dog (about 1 inch for large dogs and 1/2 inch for small dogs) and set on the prepared baking sheet. Drizzle with the reserved bacon grease. Bake until firm to the touch, 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool completely."
"Ingredients:
1/2 pound bacon
3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup beef broth
3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO)
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350° and line a baking sheet with foil.
2. In a large skillet, cook the bacon over medium heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the bacon to paper towels to drain, reserving the grease. Let the bacon cool slightly, then crumble.
3. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal and crumbled bacon. In a large measuring cup, stir together 1 1/3 cups warm water and the broth and pour into the dry ingredients. Add the EVOO and stir together to form a loose dough. Knead on a work surface until smooth.
4. Divide the dough into balls of the appropriate size for your dog (about 1 inch for large dogs and 1/2 inch for small dogs) and set on the prepared baking sheet. Drizzle with the reserved bacon grease. Bake until firm to the touch, 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool completely."
Crazy Dawgs!
Sorry for not posting a lot last week!!
"Cleaning service!"
Pic from: http://www.coolfunnyanimals.com/funny-animal-pictures/i_clean_all_the_things.html
"Cleaning service!"
Pic from: http://www.coolfunnyanimals.com/funny-animal-pictures/i_clean_all_the_things.html
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Bone Appetit!
Today's cool recipe is K-9-Ingredient Meatballs!
"Ingredients:
1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
1 carrot, shredded
1 stalk celery, finely chopped
1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
2 tablespoons parmigiano-reggiano cheese
1 large egg
2 teaspoons ground turmeric
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees . Grease a muffin pan or a baking sheet. In a medium bowl, combine all of the ingredients and mix well. Fill each muffin tin with about 1/4 cup of the mixture, or form the mixture into 10 balls and place on the baking sheet. Bake until cooked through, about 15 minutes. Let cool completely on a rack."
Recipe and pic from: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-search/pet-friendly-dog-recipes/K-9-Ingredient-Meatballs
"Ingredients:
1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
1 carrot, shredded
1 stalk celery, finely chopped
1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
2 tablespoons parmigiano-reggiano cheese
1 large egg
2 teaspoons ground turmeric
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees . Grease a muffin pan or a baking sheet. In a medium bowl, combine all of the ingredients and mix well. Fill each muffin tin with about 1/4 cup of the mixture, or form the mixture into 10 balls and place on the baking sheet. Bake until cooked through, about 15 minutes. Let cool completely on a rack."
Recipe and pic from: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-search/pet-friendly-dog-recipes/K-9-Ingredient-Meatballs
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Extreme K9s 101!
Today's extreme K9 is Bobbie!
"Elizabeth and Frank Brazier's trip to Indiana in 1923 turned into every dog-lover's nightmare. Their beloved collie, Bobbie, disappeared. They returned to Oregon heartbroken, resigned to never again see their beloved pet.
Seven months later, Bobbie showed up at the Braziers' front door. "The Wonder Dog" -- as Bobbie would soon be known -- had braved blizzards, traversed mountains and miraculously navigated nearly 3,000 miles.
Bobbie is one of many incredible animals that found their way back to the people they loved despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles."
Article from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/05/four-legged-miracles-steiger-dogs-journey-home_n_2614810.html
Pic of track from: http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/3/5/129235.jpg?v=1
Pic of Bobbie and owner from: http://mbeans.com/spillingthebeans/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/bob-bobbie.jpg
Bark out the Facts!
Today's cool fact is...
"Hollywood’s first and arguably best canine superstar was Rin Tin Tin, a five-day-old German Shepherd found wounded in battle in WWI France and adopted by an American soldier, Lee Duncan. He would sign his own contracts with his paw print."
Fact from: http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/02/15_dogs.html
Pic from: http://susanorlean.com/images/books/rin-tin-tin-med.jpg
Monday, April 8, 2013
Bone Appetit!
Today's cool recipe is Boo-sotto!
"Ingredients:
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), 2 turns of the pan
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 small onion (to be grated for its juice--Boo loved the flavor but couldn't break down onions
2/3 cup arborio rice
2/3 cup barley
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup dry white wine
4 cups chicken broth or low-sodium chicken broth (keep over low flame)
1 pound ground veal or turkey
1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (a few good handfuls)
A handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
Directions:
Preheat a deep skillet (or wide 4-quart saucepan) over medium heat. Add the EVOO (2 turns of the pan), and the garlic, then grate the onion juice into the skillet. Cook for 2 minutes, then add the rice and barley. Season with salt and pepper and cook for 2 to 3 minutes more. Add the wine, raise the heat to medium-high and cook away the liquid, about 1 minute. Add a few ladles of the warm stock to cover the rice and barley, then drop in the ground meat in small bits. Stir frequently and continue to ladle in the stock until the rice and barley are cooked al dente, about 22 minutes. Stir in the cheese, adjust the seasoning and garnish with the parsley.
Tip:
Humans ~ Eat this with a green salad."
Pic and recipe from: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-search/pet-friendly-dog-recipes/boo-sotto
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Extreme K9s 101!
Today's extreme K9 is Otis!
"Tim Tebow: For my birthday weekend the summer before my junior year in high school, I went with my brother Robby and my friend Kevin to Disney World. When we returned to our farm outside Jacksonville, something seemed different. My mom met us as we pulled up in front of the house.
“I haven’t seen Otis all weekend,” she said. She seemed pretty unsettled.
Otis (the “first greeter”) was always excited to see everyone on their arrival. Now Mom was telling us he’d been gone all weekend? It wasn’t completely out of the ordinary for him to take off for several hours but never several days, so we all headed out to find him.
I took off on foot, then decided that the car would be faster. I drove around the property, calling as loud as I could. I kept hoping Otis would come bounding and barking from behind a corner of somewhere.
I made another pass down the driveway, keeping my eyes on the underbrush. There it was—that golden head popping up in the brush. I slammed on the brakes, jumped out of the car, and ran toward him.
Otis put his head back down. In the past, he would have come running to me. I reached him, afraid that he’d been bitten by a snake. He looked fine, and I slowly and gently lifted his head. I still didn’t see anything wrong, until he opened his mouth.
It was a bloody mess. His bottom jaw appeared to have been split down its full length, the two pieces hanging loosely. He was missing teeth, I would later learn, but I couldn’t tell at the time with all the damage and blood. I looked at his legs and realized that instead of being tucked under him as they should be, they were awkwardly splayed. Otis had been hurt bad, but I couldn’t figure out by what.
I gently but quickly scooped him up, put him on the seat of the car, and raced back to the house to tell the others so we could head to the vet. All the way there, I was getting angrier. It was becoming clear that Otis hadn’t been attacked by a “what” but by a “who.” It looked to me like he’d been struck repeatedly.
The vet agreed with my guess and suggested that this could have been the work of a baseball bat. “Tim, his injuries are too severe,” he said. Otis’s back, legs, and hips were severely damaged, and his jaw was radically fractured. Surgery would have been extensive and expensive, and there was no guarantee he’d survive. Plus, the lengthy rehabilitation might prove to be more than he could take.
So we brought Otis home to die and laid him carefully on his bed.
Only we forgot to tell Otis that was the plan. We forgot to tell him these were his last days.
So every day, I carefully lifted Otis and carried him to our swimming pool. I gently submerged him on my lap up to his shoulders, and we rested together in the pool for a while.
After I’d been doing that for a couple of weeks, I began gently moving his back legs and watching his reaction. We took it slowly and increased his range of motion over time to help his muscles regain some tone and strength. He didn’t seem to want to move them on his own, but he let me move them for him. Over time, I started moving my hand out from under his back legs, which would force him to paddle a bit to feel like he was staying afloat. I never took my hand off his chest and never made him paddle much. Just long enough so he could take a few strokes and regain some confidence and strength.
It was hard to look at Otis without feeling how painful the attack must have been and how much he still must have hurt.
Thankfully, he continued to get better, and over the next few months, with the regular pool workouts and lots of milk shakes—he loved vanilla—he regained the ability to walk, albeit with a noticeable limp. He never ran again, but after an initial period where he seemed ashamed or worried that he’d done something wrong—which made me upset at the physical injuries he’d suffered—he settled back into being himself. He was a bit frail, but he was our Otis, no less, the one we always knew and loved.
Otis lived to be 13 and died when Tebow was away playing college football. Today, the Jets quarterback owns a Rhodesian ridgeback named Bronx."
Article and pic from: http://www.rd.com/?p=63447
"Tim Tebow: For my birthday weekend the summer before my junior year in high school, I went with my brother Robby and my friend Kevin to Disney World. When we returned to our farm outside Jacksonville, something seemed different. My mom met us as we pulled up in front of the house.
“I haven’t seen Otis all weekend,” she said. She seemed pretty unsettled.
Otis (the “first greeter”) was always excited to see everyone on their arrival. Now Mom was telling us he’d been gone all weekend? It wasn’t completely out of the ordinary for him to take off for several hours but never several days, so we all headed out to find him.
I took off on foot, then decided that the car would be faster. I drove around the property, calling as loud as I could. I kept hoping Otis would come bounding and barking from behind a corner of somewhere.
I made another pass down the driveway, keeping my eyes on the underbrush. There it was—that golden head popping up in the brush. I slammed on the brakes, jumped out of the car, and ran toward him.
Otis put his head back down. In the past, he would have come running to me. I reached him, afraid that he’d been bitten by a snake. He looked fine, and I slowly and gently lifted his head. I still didn’t see anything wrong, until he opened his mouth.
It was a bloody mess. His bottom jaw appeared to have been split down its full length, the two pieces hanging loosely. He was missing teeth, I would later learn, but I couldn’t tell at the time with all the damage and blood. I looked at his legs and realized that instead of being tucked under him as they should be, they were awkwardly splayed. Otis had been hurt bad, but I couldn’t figure out by what.
I gently but quickly scooped him up, put him on the seat of the car, and raced back to the house to tell the others so we could head to the vet. All the way there, I was getting angrier. It was becoming clear that Otis hadn’t been attacked by a “what” but by a “who.” It looked to me like he’d been struck repeatedly.
The vet agreed with my guess and suggested that this could have been the work of a baseball bat. “Tim, his injuries are too severe,” he said. Otis’s back, legs, and hips were severely damaged, and his jaw was radically fractured. Surgery would have been extensive and expensive, and there was no guarantee he’d survive. Plus, the lengthy rehabilitation might prove to be more than he could take.
So we brought Otis home to die and laid him carefully on his bed.
Only we forgot to tell Otis that was the plan. We forgot to tell him these were his last days.
So every day, I carefully lifted Otis and carried him to our swimming pool. I gently submerged him on my lap up to his shoulders, and we rested together in the pool for a while.
After I’d been doing that for a couple of weeks, I began gently moving his back legs and watching his reaction. We took it slowly and increased his range of motion over time to help his muscles regain some tone and strength. He didn’t seem to want to move them on his own, but he let me move them for him. Over time, I started moving my hand out from under his back legs, which would force him to paddle a bit to feel like he was staying afloat. I never took my hand off his chest and never made him paddle much. Just long enough so he could take a few strokes and regain some confidence and strength.
It was hard to look at Otis without feeling how painful the attack must have been and how much he still must have hurt.
Thankfully, he continued to get better, and over the next few months, with the regular pool workouts and lots of milk shakes—he loved vanilla—he regained the ability to walk, albeit with a noticeable limp. He never ran again, but after an initial period where he seemed ashamed or worried that he’d done something wrong—which made me upset at the physical injuries he’d suffered—he settled back into being himself. He was a bit frail, but he was our Otis, no less, the one we always knew and loved.
Otis lived to be 13 and died when Tebow was away playing college football. Today, the Jets quarterback owns a Rhodesian ridgeback named Bronx."
Article and pic from: http://www.rd.com/?p=63447
Bark out the Facts!
Monday, April 1, 2013
Bone Appetit!
Today's cool recipe is Springtime Muffins!
"Ingredients:
1 egg
2 tablespoons honey
2 bananas, mashed with a fork
1/4 cup peanut butter
3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Cooking spray
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees . In a bowl, whisk together the egg, honey, bananas and peanut butter. Stir in 3 cups water; whisk until smooth.
In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and cinnamon; add to the egg mixture.
Spray two 12-cup muffin pans with cooking spray; fill each cup three quarters full. Bake until browned, about 30 minutes. Let cool."
Recipe and pic from: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-search/pet-friendly-dog-recipes/springtime-muffins
Crazy Dawgs!
"I should've known this is what would happen if my mom married a flower."
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