Our hosts Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers, and Confessions of the Plume have now brought us 25 weeks of the Blog Hop! It’s a rainy weekend here in our sector of the vast midwestern wasteland, so we are glad to have a lot of good blogs to read for our time indoors.
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I was sorting through some dog-related mail and email, and buried somewhere in there was the news that premiums for the 2011 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show had been mailed out earlier this month. This is the first time I’ve ever owned a dog that is eligible to enter. As an AKC Champion of Record who is eligible for Best of Breed competition, Axel could go and run with the big dogs.
“Eligible” and “competitive” are two very different things, of course. And I don’t think the money and time for a trip like this is going to fall out of the sky by the closing date. But it makes a nice daydream. I think the ultimate dream for many of us psycho dog people is winning Best in Show at Westminster handling a dog of our own breeding. My modified version for the moment would be my handler placing in the Working Group at Westminster with the first champion that I’ve owned (no Rottweiler has ever won at Westminster, and only one has ever won the Working Group, so that is the realist modifying the dream).
We won’t enter, of course. But it’s still a nice dream.
(NaBloPoMo | October ’10: 19 of 31)
Our hosts Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers, and Confessions of the Plume bring us into Week 24 of the Blog Hop as we approach Halloween! Quite a few pet bloggers are preparing for Halloween festivities, and I’m envious of those of you whose dogs don’t mind wearing stuff, and enjoying the photos. We’re not that creative here, plus the canine members of the team are not so tolerant of clothing. So Freya and Axel are going to be…. Rottweilers. Boo!
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I buy my own vitamins and supplements at GNC, as well as a few for the dogs. And of course Rescue Remedy, and it is hard to say whether that is needed more by dog or handler.
Somehow, I missed the news of the GNC Pets brand until this morning. In the email newsletter with the usual specials was an introduction to their new pet-specific supplements. They are available online at GNC.com and some of the retail stores, as well as at PetSmart.
I haven’t had a chance to compare pricing and ingredients yet, but if they look good, I’ll give these products a try. If the products are comparable to what I’m using now, the convenience of getting all human and pet supplements at one place that often does free shipping specials would be nice. The offerings for joint support and digestive health are the ones I’m most interested in trying right away.
(NaBloPoMo | October ’10: 13 of 31)
Freya pops in to visit the Blog Hop this week…
…just patrolling the fence line for something. We aren’t sure what that something is, as we can see nothing that should be of that much interest. Maybe she’ll do a post of her own and tell us!
Meanwhile, Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers, and Confessions of the Plume have now brought us 23 weeks of the Pet Blogger Blog Hop. Almost six months of great pet blogs to read, and great pets and pet bloggers to meet! Thanks to all who make this so enjoyable.
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We missed several weeks of the Blog Hop during a very busy September, but here we are again finally, back for Week 22 (I hope I counted that right). It is great to come back to Blog Hop co-hosts Life With Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers, and Confessions of the Plume and all of the other pet bloggers for the Saturday Pet Blogger Blog Hop!
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When I talk about my Rottweilers, their impeccable bloodlines, their fancy conformation shows and rally obedience competitions, and of course, their designer grain-free and all-natural foods that I suspect might cost more than my own meals, you might assume I’m just another psycho dog snob, and wonder why I’m writing about Pedigree’s Adoption Drive.
Before there was Axel, and before there was Freya, there was Missy. Missy was possibly a purebred Rottweiler. Or maybe not. We never knew for sure. A friend of ours noticed her tied to a post at a strip mall. But at the end of the day when she passed that way again, the dog was still there. No one at the stores or a nearby construction site knew where she came from, and no one admitted to owning her. She was very underweight and covered with ticks. We took her in with the intent of finding her owner, or finding her a home. That home turned out to be with us for the rest of her life. Missy was probably the best dog we ever had. So, yeah. Believers in adoption here.
How about Pedigree, you ask? An important part of getting Missy back to an ideal weight was Pedigree Choice Cuts, particularly the Country Stew flavor. It was her food of choice and always got her appetite to perk up. And even though we’ve switched to a lot of all-natural treats for the current two, we cannot cut them off completely from Pedigree Marro Bones and Jumbones without inducing anarchy. So, yeah. Pedigree products have a place here.
So about that adoption drive? Here’s the deal:
For each blog that posts about the PEDIGREE® Adoption Drive through September 19th, PEDIGREE® will donate a bag of their new Healthy Longevity Food for Dogs to shelters nationwide. It’s simple: Write a post, help a dog.
Thursday, September 16 through Sunday, September 19, the Pedigree BlogPaws bloggers will host a Blog Hop, to help raise awareness for the “Write a post, help a dog” effort.
Hopefully you’ll see this so you can join in, too. Quick, quick, go and write your post! Then go here to check in and be counted.
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