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Food For the Refined Palate

Owen and I Cuddle After One of Grammy's Fabulous Dinners!

So, I’m a picky eater. I don’t love to eat, unless of course, I’m stealing from Uncle Owen or one of my other dog friends. When breakfast or dinner is served in the morning I usually go sniff at it for a minute just to make sure Mom actually remembered to put it in my bowl and then wander back to my spot under the coffee table. Unless, of course, she puts chicken or cheese or some other yummy thing on top then I scarf that down and leave most of the uninteresting brown crunchy pieces for later, if and only if I’m starving to death. Which most times I’m not, so Mom comes home from work and throws the now bloated smushy brown things (those are even more disgusting) in the garbage and we start the process over again. This all gets even worse when I go to Grammy’s house when Mom goes away. You see Grammy actually MAKES Owen his food. From Scratch! When I go to Grammy’s I get to eat just a little of the brown crunchy things mixed in with whatever Grammy has cooked that day. Sometimes its broccoli and carrots and fish, sometimes its buffalo and asparagus and brown rice, sometimes turkey and green beans and potatoes – I LOVE it! Grammy told Mom she had to start doing this for me so I would eat my food. But Mom has resisted, mostly because she is very busy and doesn’t have time to make me a separate dinner from hers every night. I tried to get her to just eat the same thing as me but sadly she didn’t like the idea.

Well, the other day while I was in visiting the girls at my favorite store, Four Your Paws Only, Mom finally came around! That night for dinner when I got home she opened a can, it had the most amazing smell, I immediately stood on my hind legs to see what she was cooking. To my surprise, she wasn’t cooking at all!  It was a new type of yummy food she found called Merrick Working Dog Stew she was going to mix in with my brown crunchies. It was so yummy she hardly had it on the floor before I had scarfed it all up! Since then we have had Grammy’s Pot Pie (which surprisingly isn’t MY Grammy’s) and Honolulu Luau I am proud to report both are equally as yummy as the Working Dog Stew! So if your pup is a picky eater I highly recommend picking some up at your favorite local dog store to spice up their meals. Thank you Merrick for making my dining experience much more enjoyable – after all we are ‘foodies’ too!

Toy Tester Extraordinaire!

Lovin' My Zisc!

A stop at Four Your Paws Only is one of my favorite things to do on a rainy day… Well, sunny days too but I try not to waste those on inside activities. Product testing is best done when it’s yucky out!

Four Your Paws Only is my hometown dog store. Apparently, they have other things for cats and birds and other little creatures, but I don’t look at those things very often – especially after mom told me I couldn’t have the gerbil wheel because they only make them for little animals, not Border Collies. It’s pretty much the only store we go to that I can go in and they love me there! All of the people have treats in their aprons and best of all I usually get to buy a new toy. I always pick my own (unless it’s a gerbil wheel), which is best because I get to test the quality of the squeakers, see how well the balls bounce and most importantly test which Frisbee feels the best in my mouth.

Frisbees are my favorite toys by far. My mom can throw them really far (she kind of stinks at throwing a ball) and I like to jump as high as I can to catch them. People cheer for me when I catch them, the higher I jump and more flips I do the louder they cheer. My favorite Frisbee on the market today is the Zisc by West Paw Designs.

The Zisc is perfect! I have 3 of them; one that stays in the car, one that stays at Grammy’s house and one that stays at daycare. It’s nice and soft on my mouth when I catch it, it floats so I won’t lose it when I go in the water to cool off, and best of all, just like Lupine, it’s guaranteed forever! Unless of course it floats down the river, then mom has to buy a new one, but hey, we have to keep them in business somehow – they’re the best Frisbees ever!