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Keeping my first dog healthy

October 25, 2011 by Tricia

My Labrador Retriever, Midnight, is my first dog. In a way I kind of grew up around dogs because my grandmother always had dogs up at the cottage/ farm, and my sister had two dogs when I lived with her but as for a dog of my own? Midnight is my first.

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So … when it came to getting ready for our first dog I did a lot of research before we even got her. I mean it took a little while to figure out just what breed of dog would suit our lifestyle and then once we’d decided that Labrador Retrievers would probably be our best choice I went to work and started figuring out what kind of foods would be best to feed her.

I did all this before we even went and picked her out from a breeder. I’d wanted a dog all my life and I was finally getting one and I wanted to make sure that once she was finally here we’d know what we were doing. Well .. as things stood – food wise we did know what we were doing, we did well on that front, she’s very healthy and she has an exceptionally shiny black coat. However on the puppy front – lets just say our house was a bit of a circus for a couple of months. It was crazy, but I’m sure any first time puppy owners know what I’m talking about, especially if their puppies were a little bit hyper.

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Midnight is my constant companion so it’s very important to me that I keep my silly little ham of a dog happy and healthy. Her diet, just like the Iams Naturals, contains chicken, antioxidants, no artificial preservatives or nasty chemicals and quality ingredients.

Have you always had pet cats and dogs around you or did you do some research before you finally got your first dog too? Do you try to feed your dog a very healthy diet?

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Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals

My Niece makes some pretty cool stuff

October 21, 2011 by Tricia

My niece started a craft business a month or so ago. Well I guess she’s really been working on it for a while, but it only became a real business in September when she started an Etsy page and officially started getting sales for her wonderful crafts.

Back in September, I remember her business Facebook page only had something like 13 fans and now it’s got well over 600! She’s really been working hard at publicizing her site and on her products. I’m always seeing photos of new items such as very cool looking dog and cat collars and leashes, crochet hats, baby beanies, hair clips, headbands and more. It seems like every time I check out either her Facebook page or her Etsy page there’s something new there. Next thing I know she’ll be doing something with czech glass beads.

If you like hand made items like the ones I’ve mentioned above please check out either Muench Love Creations Etsy Page or my nieces Muench Love Creations Facebook page.

Filed Under: Art, Family, Gifts, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Shopping Tagged With: baby beanies, cat collars, crafts, creative, crochet hats, dog collars, etsy, facebook page, Gift ideas, hair clips, headbands, homemade, leashes, nice, Niece, popular, sell

Lots of Birthdays this month

October 20, 2011 by Tricia

Several of my friends have birthdays this month. In fact it was just my sister in laws birthday yesterday. isn’t it odd how some months seem to have more birthdays or celebrations than others?

Anyway … over the next two weeks I need to scramble and get a few gifts for friends that are having birthdays. So that means I need to try to figure out just what kind of gifts to get each friend.

Sigh … think think think … that’s all I do! LOL

Actually I know one of my friends would like chocolate covered berries so I might order some for her and have them delivered to her home. She’ll be thrilled!

Is October a busy birthday month for you too?

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: Birthday, birthdays, chocolate covered berries, Family, friends, Gift ideas, Gifts, Party

Getting the house and yard ready for Fall and Winter

October 20, 2011 by Tricia

Winter is coming and we’ve started working to prepare our yard and garden for winter and now it’s time to get the house ready for winter too.

Can you believe I still have plants on my enclosed front porch? It’s getting cold out and usually by now I have all those plants indoors but I haven’t brought any of them in yet. I guess I’d better do that very soon.

We’ve also been doing things like cleaning our windows so that we go into the winter with clean windows. One side of our house is covered in plaster dust it seems from our neighbors renovations and we’ve been trying to get the dirt off our windows for a while .. I think it’s almost gone.

I think some time this weekend I’ll also go into our basement storage area and look at our Halloween and Christmas Decorations. I haven’t decorated for either holiday for a couple of years but this year I might decorate for both. I usually decorate the front porch and front yard. It’s quite festive. Of course it’s a little early for the Christmas stuff .. but I can make sure the lights work and so on.

One other thing I’d like to do is get a new door mat. The one that we have now is getting old and tired looking. It’d be nice to get a custom door mat perhaps with our names on it or a custom greeting. One of my brothers used to always have a custom door mat and I always thought it was a nice touch.

Have started getting your house and yard ready for the cool season – if you have a cool season that is? It’s a bit of work isn’t it?

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: autumn, clean up, clean windows, cool season, custom mat, decorate, decorations, dust, fall, house, mat, plants, porch, winter, yard, yard work

Raising A Happy Healthy Dog

October 20, 2011 by Tricia

My Labrador Retriever is my first dog and she’s been a part of my life for four years now. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while it probably isn’t hard to tell that my dog and pets in general are important to me.

Since I’m stuck at home quite a bit with my illness (Crohn’s disease) my dog has become quite an important companion. I know she’s a pet, but she’s also part of my family, so it makes sense for us to keep her as healthy and happy as possible so we’ll have many years together – right?

Midnight was a sickly puppy when we got her so her care began with a lot of veterinarian visits and only the best pet foods. She also got a lot of love and tender care.  Once she started to become healthy we started to train her and we quickly found out how smart our Lab was and how much she loves to learn.  Our dog can be shown something only once or twice and she knows it. It’s almost scary how quick she learns things.

Is your dog a happy healthy part of your family?  Do you devote some time caring for your pet in order to keep him or her healthy and happy?

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This is our dog Midnight on a recent hiking trip in a local off leash park. As you can see she looks pretty healthy and happy.

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Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Toronto Tagged With: companion pet, dog, dog care, dog food, dog health, dog training, family pet, healthy pet, iams, iams naturals, labrador retriever, learn, Midnight, pets, puppy, smart dog, train dog, vet

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