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My dog has an ear infection and is on antibiotics again. Unfortunately, antibiotics upset his stomach and turn him into a stinky dog who needs to spend lots of time outside. For this week’s Works for Me Wednesday, here’s a trick the vet taught me that has helped a lot.
The above photograph is of the fur I brushed off of my dog yesterday (shown with cat to illustrate scale). Now, before you worry, this has nothing to do with his recent cancer. This happens twice a year, every year, and it’s just par for the course when you have a 95lb German Shepherd (aptly nicknamed German Shedders) with a long stock coat.
But the sheer magnitude of said sheddings made me think twice about just tossing it in the trash. Apparently, I’m not alone.
Pets for the Environment just sent around a new e-mail with a very disturbing fact about pet food. Read more…
Pets for the Environment, the new campaign started by the Environmental Working Group is working to test the safety of pet food. Read more…
When I posted my make your own kitty litter recipe a few weeks ago, Sherri asked if there were issues with the ink from the washed newspapers going down the drain.
Janet, a reader from Winnipeg, Canada, did a little research and was kind enough to e-mail me her findings. Read more…
The biopsy report from my dog’s surgery came back this morning and it looks like they got wide enough margins around the tumor to remove all the cancer cells, which is amazing news! Phew!
Thank you so much for all of your good wishes and support. I was having a hard time with the waiting and not knowing. Your comments and e-mails were such a comfort to me.
Now we’ll go back to our regularly scheduled eco-friendly stuff, right after Argo and I take a victory lap around the block.
Our German Shepherd is one of the brightest spots in my life. He’s almost 100 lbs and looks a lot like a wolf, but understands the word cuddle and always tries sit in my lap. He has a favorite blanket that he drags around the house. He’s managed to win the hearts of hard core dog haters, and people who have always been utterly terrified of German Shepherds. He jumped on the mailman once, but only so he could lick his face. He herds the cat like it’s his job. He snores while I write, and it’s the best sound I can think of.
When we brought him home four years ago, he was a funny looking five month old puppy with a head he needed to grow into and legs like tree trunks. I fell in love with him immediately. I was so terrified by the idea of losing him, that I took him to the vet to get microchipped. Read more…
My cat’s favorite place to sleep is in an old mixing bowl, lined with a towel, propped up on the guest room bed. Don’t ask how this came to be. It was a long process. But after years of buying her fancy cat beds that she never used, she blissfully naps in her mixing bowl every afternoon.
Did you have a family member who sat in the corner at a party or holiday event, carefully folding up wrapping paper for future use? Maybe it was a grandma or great aunt who lived through the Depression and learned to save anything that was usable, maybe it was just someone who was thrifty and knew how to pinch pennies. What ever the reason behind it, saving wrapping paper makes good green sense.