Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Marrow Bones From Jones All Natural Chews

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While I was at BlogPaws I stopped by the Jones Natural Chews booth to meet my friend Flea.

The folks at Jones were one of the sponsors of BlogPaws so naturally I left the booth with a couple of treats for Sampson and Delilah.

Imagine my surprise on Saturday when I was handed a bag with a variety of Jones treats to take home with me.

IMG_5048 One of the treats I was excited about were these marrow bones.

I figured once they got all the marrow out, I had another set of bones to pack with pumpkin.

Back story: We’d left my mother and niece in charge of the dogs, for 36 hours.  Thirty-six.  A day and a half.

All they had to do was to feed the dogs two meals, Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast.  The meals were meticulously prepared and placed in plastic baggies in the refrigerator, and labeled, Sampson dinner, Delilah dinner.  You get the picture, right?

Hubby spent 25 minutes explaining to my niece the additional supplements each dog required.  (This was I think, the flaw in the plan.)

For those of you playing along at home here are the key points: 36 hours, 2 dogs, 4 meals.

Despite the instructions and the prepared food, the labeled baggies AND the fact that my mother has fed the dogs many times herself, somehow, incredibly Frick and Frack managed to feed the dogs three days worth of chicken necks for Sunday breakfast.

This equates to about 2 1/2 pounds.  EACH. Of chicken necks. In one meal.

Which I did not realize until after I’d fed them their dinner, when I went in the fridge to get their second course and noticed the individual baggies which I questioned Hubby about.

Hubby was furious and I have to admit I wasn’t too happy either.

I called my niece who was supposed to be in charge, but she had no explanation.

If I’d known about this before I fed them dinner, I wouldn’t have fed them.

Of course, Sampson and Delilah couldn’t understand why they didn’t get a snack on Sunday night.

Monday morning I held back on a full breakfast and called the vet, who recommended they get no more bones for a couple of days and suggested there might be a bit of straining as they tried to pass all that bone.  She advised straight meat and veggies for a couple of days.

Dogs on raw diet usually have a harder, more compact stool, so I watched and waited, waited and watched.  Finally on Wednesday there was no more bone in their stool.

Still we held off on the marrow bones, until Saturday night, and let me tell you, the dogs were excited to get them.

IMG_5051 Nom, nom, nom, what’d you make me wait for?

IMG_5053 Nom, nom, nom.

After about 15 minutes or so, I took the bones away, labeled a baggie for Sampson and another for Delilah and put the bones in the fridge.

I packed them with pumpkin and put them in the freezer the next day and they’ve been enjoying the same marrow bone for three nights now.

I’ve got a wedding in August I need to be gone five days for, anyone want to dog sit?

It’s Tasty Tuesday, hosted by Kol’s Notes and Sugar the Golden Retriever.

A Little Yankee Ingenuity

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Oh my god, I forgot to make the dog’s treats! I shouted at Hubby.

It was 9 o’clock and Delilah was ready for her snack.

Every morning as I’m washing up the dishes, I was out the bones from the night before and frost the end with pumpkin, leaving them to set in the freezer while I’m at work.  Once I get home, I prepare the dog’s food and fill the bone with yogurt and let it freeze until snack time.

I had frozen the pumpkin but forgotten to add anything else to the treat.

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There was no way a certain Chocolate Lab was going to settle for a tiny bit of frozen pumpkin..

Think Quick!

IMG_4917 I had some frozen pineapple bits which I tucked into the bone.

IMG_4918 Remember the Tasty Cubes I made?  Well I took one and smashed it in to the bone.  It was just enough to make it enjoyable for her.

A little luck pitted with a little Yankee Ingenuity and all was right in Delilah’s world.

This is the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop, hosted by Kol’s Notes and Sugar the Golden Retriever.

Frosty Blog Paws

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Friday just before we got 3 feet of snow, we received a package from our friend Jen at My Brown Newfies.

Frosty Paw Puppy

Inside the priority mail box was two prize packages consisting of 2 coupons for free Frosty Paws dessert treats and a cute little stuffed puppy.

One package was for us to keep and one was to do what we pleased with. Truthfully I could have kept both, but why be greedy?

Especially when I want something from you.

BlogPaws Bound

In May of this year a whole host of awesome Pet Bloggers will be meeting in Tyson Corners, Virginia for the social media event of the year. BlogPaws!

In a moment of folly, I pitched a proposal to BlogPaws for a beginning blogging session titled, “I’ve started a blog, now what?”

Well put your money where your mouth is Jodi Stone, because BlogPaws accepted my proposal!

Yes, yours truly will be hosting a session at this year’s BlogPaws.

As most of you know (mostly because I whine incessantly about it) blogging is a learning experience. And while sometimes it takes me a while to learn things (thank you to all of you who answer those desperate questions of mine) there are so many things I wish I’d known about sooner, like two years ago sooner when I first started this blog.

That is what my session will be about. All the things that took me two years to learn about starting and growing a blog.

I have a list of subjects I wish I’d known about when I first started blogging and I figured if I had a list, you must have one too!

So see, here’s where the give away comes in.

I’d like your thoughts about what you wish YOU’D known about when you first started blogging. And it wouldn’t be fair to pick your brain and not give you something in return, right?

SO Share it with me in the comments and one lucky winner will receive a prize pack with two coupons for a free Frosty Paws dessert for your dog, along with a Frosty Paws dog.

Not for dogs (Note the stuffed toy is NOT FOR DOGS but for human use only.)

Also, I’m only authorized to ship in the US as Frosty Paws isn’t available in other areas.

BUT that doesn’t mean I don’t want my international friends to comment, SO here’s what I’ll do. Give me your comments, one and all and if the entry that wins is outside of the U.S. I will send you something entirely different and pick another entry for the Frosty Paws Prize package.

Don’t write a blog?  That’s okay too, I still want your input.  Tell me what kinds of topics you want to read about on this blog, or something I’ve written that you like.

No rush, I’ll draw the winning name next Wednesday, so if you can’t think of something right away, you still have time.

This is the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop, hosted by Sugar the Golden Retriever and Kol’s Notes.

 

 

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