Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

Rottweilers. Computers. Cameras. World Domination. Not necessarily in that order.

Rottweilers.
Computers. Cameras.
World Domination.
Not necessarily in that order.

PEDIGREE® Adoption Drive: Write a Post, Help a Dog

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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.

This is why I’ll probably never be a “real” pet blogger

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If I were a real pet blogger, I would be able to keep track of all of the pet-related holidays, observations, special days, and special weeks. The day is almost over and I failed to notice that it was National Dog Day today.

The dogs get healthy preservative-free treats and ample snooze time every day, so at least I didn’t totally fail in observing some of the celebratory suggestions. I had to smile at the idea of scheduling a professional photo shoot, even though it’s something I would in fact like to do. I even know which studio I’d like to use if a bunch of money fell out of the sky into my waiting arms: Sutton Studios.
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Oliver observes National Take Your Cat to the Vet Week

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This week is National Take Your Cat to the Vet Week. I have to admit that most of our cats do not get annual checkups for much of their lives. Since they have all been indoor cats, and two of them actively feared leaving the house, their vet visits were kept to a bare minimum until they were seniors.

Oliver was determined to observe this week, and in fact, he got things off to an early start by requiring a vet visit on Saturday. He had a small lump on his nose that looked dark around the edges and seemed to have grown over the course of a week. Any type of canine or feline lump that isn’t obviously attributable to injury or insect bite is reason for us to overreact wildly due to lumps on past pets turning out to be malignant.

Unlike some of our past cats, Oliver is not scarier than the Rottweilers when dealing with the vet. Dr. B was able to examine him easily. He thought it was most likely just an almost-healed scab from an injury, but there was also a small possibility it could be ringworm. He took a skin scraping to do a fungal culture and we’ll know the results in a week to 10 days.

Oliver’s nose looks a lot better already, though, so I’m thinking (and hoping) it was just a healing injury that looked a little strange.

(NaBloPoMo | August ’10: 16 of 31)