My husband is a wonderful Dad to Bobby and Gracie and I couldn’t ask for any better.
He’s also a wonderful Dad to the dogs, he just doesn’t know it.
He would never consider himself a dog Dad or even a pet parent. It’s just not the way he is.
I mean this is a man that when the first time he came over to my house, he wouldn’t come inside until I put my big, huge, drooly dog out onto the back porch.
Since yesterday was flag day and the US Army”s birthday I thought today would be a great day to share a super fun and exciting contest that’s coming up in a few weeks.
The What’s Essential Rescue Pet Photo Contest.
Thank you. Two simple words I just don’t think we say enough.
Or maybe we do say them but not with enough sincerity and not when we should.
I try to say thank you as much as I can, but I know I don’t do it enough and I certainly know I wouldn’t mind hearing it a little more than I do.
Which is why I have two things to tell you today.
1. THANK YOU.
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for all the kind words and condolences on the loss of Plunger. You don’t know how much it means to me to read all the heartfelt comments that you left. I’ve been a huge Debbie Downer the last few days and reading all those comments just warmed my heart and made me cry. So again I say THANK YOU.
Since we’re on the subject of Thank You I wanted to tell you about my secret page.
2. The Thank You Page.
Yesterday we said good-bye to Plunger and helped him cross over the Rainbow Bridge.
Plunger was 15 and he had been struggling with some health issues for the last few months and the time had come to let him be at peace.
Instead of going into a big long story that makes me cry I thought I would share some of my favorite pictures of Plunger.
I normally don’t give the dogs bones to chew on. It creates a HUGE issue in our house between two very large and intact male dogs who think they are the shit when they have a manly bone in front of them.
Mostly it’s the sweet innocent one, Sherman, who has the problem, so after past issues I’ve just decided to do the best thing possible and just avoid the whole situation all together and not give them manly dog bones.
The kids are now officially on summer break and I couldn’t be happier for them. They had a crappy school year with the 8 week teachers strike and they deserve to have a summer filled with fun so I was super excited to see their faces gleaming when they got off of the bus for the last time this school year.
Now the hard part begins for me. Planning fun things to do.
I don’t know about you but I seem to always encounter issues when I’m out walking Sherman and Leroy. Most days all I want is a nice and relaxing walk with my boys, but more often than not I find myself just waiting for the next curious motorist to scare the living daylights out of me and make our walk anything but relaxing.
So the other day, while I was out walking the boys, I came up with a list of 6 ways motorists can assist me in having that nice and relaxing walk with my dogs that I crave.
I give Sherman and Leroy treats a few times a day.
They expect treats at certain times of the time and so they get them.
The treats really have no purpose other than to keep them happy.
They’re not bad treats, they’re healthy veggie treats, but that’s it.
So when I was contacted by Cloudstar to try out their Dynamo Dog Functional Dog Treats I was interested to see what they were all about.
Dynamo Dog Treats come with everything that I’m looking for in a dog treat.
If you read this blog last year than you know exactly what I’m talking about when I refer to the Dog Pee Garden.
If you weren’t a reader last year than you can read up on the dog pee garden here, and here and even here.
Long story short, last year I planted my very first vegetable garden for my family. Little did I know that my garden was going to be a free for all for bunnies, groundhogs, snakes and the worst offenders, deer. After several attempts to keep the deer away with other suggestions by the garden experts, I finally had to use dog urine to deter them. I would have the dogs pee in a bowl and then place the bowl of pee outside of the garden. It worked and my garden grew happily ever after.
I couldn’t wait to get started on the garden this year and the first free weekend I had was last weekend so Gracie and Sherman and I got started.