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Anyone else having trouble getting food for your dog?

July 5, 2008 by Tricia

The last few months we’ve been having a terrible time getting a steady supply of the two brands of dry dog food that we feed our Labrador Retriever puppy.

The first few months were ok, but by March one of the brands that we were feeding our dog with a sensitive tummy became unavailable for a while. It was Blue Buffalo Large Breed Puppy Chicken and Rice dog food. I guess the company was having trouble getting one of the ingredients for the dog food and it messed up their whole supply until June.

Luckily we were also feeding her another dog food – Nutro Natures Choice Large Breed puppy Lamb and brown rice dog food. However now whenever we go into get pet supplies we have trouble finding this particular brand.

Chris went to the pet store early this morning specifically to look for the two brands of dry dog food that we feed Midnight and they were out of the Nutro again! A Nutro rep happened to be in the store and she told him that they are having trouble getting a supply of lamb for the food. I guess they get their lamb from New Zealand and there’s been a drought there that’s affect the livestock.

Naturally she suggested that we switch to one of their other products, but as I said earlier our dog has a very sensitive stomach so I really don’t want to start switching her food every time I need to buy her a new bag of food. I said it that way because I suspect that if we switch to one of their other products or even another brand that we’ll run into supply problems again. That seems to be our luck lately.

Are any of you having trouble getting certain brands of food for your dog? Or is it just us having terrible luck picking a company that can keep our dog supplied in healthy food?





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals Tagged With: bag, Blue Buffalo, brand of dog food, Breed, brown rice, changing brands, changing foods, chicken, Chris, company, dog food, drought, dry dog food, Food, Labrador, Lamb, livestock, March, morning, Natures Choice, New Zealand, no lamb, Nutro, pet, puppy, rep, Retriever, sensitive stomach, stomach, store, supply, supply problems, trouble, tummy

Oh my aching back!

July 5, 2008 by Tricia

My back is aching. As I said in my last post Chris and I had a very busy day – hiking, visiting with a neighbor and then gardening.

Gardening has been taking a huge toll on my back lately. Sometimes I can garden for quite a while without my back bothering me, but other times it starts hurting almost right away.

My lower back goes into spasms after I’ve been leaning forward for a while. Heck, even when I sweep the floor (which I did early this morning – it’s amazing how much hair that dog is shedding) my back often goes into spasms and sometimes aches for hours afterwords.

I have a weird back. I was born with two of my lower vertebrae fused on one side. So one side is normal and the other side of my lower back isn’t. My back never bothered me much in the past, but I guess it’s starting to catch up with me now. At least the pain goes away after a few hours if I lie down and let the muscles in my lower back relax for a while. Well most of the time it does.

I think I’ll find our heating pad and put some heat on my back.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: aching, aching back, back muscles, back spasms, Chris, dog, floor, fused vertabrae, Gardening, heat, heating, neighbor, pain, sore back, sweep, time, toll, vertebrae

I spent a lot of time outside today … busy busy

July 5, 2008 by Tricia

Chris and I had a busy day today. We took our puppy Midnight over to the Brickworks for a walk by the ponds and through the forest and while we were there we attended a walking tour of the lost rivers of Toronto. Quite interesting. I took a number of pictures too. I’ll post more about that portion of our day when I have the pictures ready to post.

When we got home we noticed that our neighbor Sofie was sitting on her porch. This was a big surprise because Sofie had a stroke back in February and was hospitalized for about three months and has been living with her youngest sons family for the last month. They brought her for a visit to her home even though there’s no way she can ever live there every again as she needs to be cared for throughout the day now. It was kind of sad, but also very good to see her.

I sat on Sofie’s porch talking with her for about two and a half hours – directly after coming back from our nature hike. I didn’t even go inside my own home to get a drink so by the time my visit with Sofie was over I was thirsty and tired. However after a brief bit of downtime (by this time it was 7 pm) Chris and I decided to go out into the garden to finish putting mulch on the garden beds.

Do you know how messy red cedar mulch is? I’ve got it in my shoes, socks, probably down my top and after washing my hands when I came back inside the bathroom fixtures and sink had a red tone to them. Yep … lots of red dye everywhere! Luckily it came off easily!

It was a busy day! We went out for our hike at about 11 am, didn’t get back until 3:30 and then I visited with Sofie until a bit after 6 pm. Then after only about half an hour of downtime we were back outside in the garden until 10:30 pm! So I guess I spent about 11 hours outside today.

Time for a rest!

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Socializing, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: bathroom, Brickworks, cedar, downtime, drink, dye, Family, february, forest, garden, hike, home, messy, Midnight, mulch, nature, neighbor, porch, puppy, sofie, stroke, surprise, today, Toronto, Tour, visit, walk

Obsessed Relatives

July 5, 2008 by Tricia

I guess everyone has a memorable relative or two don’t they? Mine was my Aunt – she was a massive political fanatic and collector of books, material (as in sewing material), china and shoes. As in over collector really. Her apartment was jam packed with items. You had to move books aside just to sit down!

Chris has an Aunt that’s quite similar in some ways. She’s a pack rat as well but she’s fascinated with collecting papers and books. She used to be a teacher and she kept all her students old tests and things like that. She’s also extremely religious so a good portion of the papers she collects are newsletters from church and so on. Like my Aunts apartment, Chris’ Aunts home is also jam packed with stuff. There are rooms you can’t even get into I’m told. Oh yeah, she’s very selective as to who she lets into her home – only a few people are allowed in regularly.

The reason why I’m bringing this up is because Chris’ aunt regularly sends us items. It could be anything from religious jewelry to religious booklets to information about a Church in Toronto and so on.

Do you have any relatives that stand out like the two that I’ve mentioned? Pack rats or obsessed with some ideal?

Don’t get me wrong both of these ladies are wonderful kind people … their just a little obsessed.

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: apartment, aunt, aunts, books, china, Chris, church, collector, fabric, home, jewelry, material, Obsessed, packrat, papers, reason, relatives, sewing, stuff, teacher, Toronto

Happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2008 by Tricia

I just wanted to take a moment and wish all of my American friends and visitors a very happy Independence day.

I hope that each of you have a great day whether you are spending the day with family, attending 4th of July events, parties and fireworks or just enjoying the day relaxing.

Have a great day AND long weekend!

We celebrated Canada Day on Tuesday. Instead of going to see the fireworks as planned we spent a good portion of the day gardening and then we had a nice meal and just relaxed. It was a good day.

Here’s a good one. Some left a comment on one of my husbands blog posts about Canada Day yesterday asking “Do Canadians do anything to celebrate July 4th?” LOL No – that’s your day, however many Canadians are likely starting their summer holidays today so maybe that’s how some Canadians are celebrating. 😉

Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: Americans, blog, Canada, Canada Day, canadians, celebrate, comment, events, Family, fireworks, fun, Gardening, holiday, independence, Independence day, July, July 4th, meal, relax, Summer, weekend

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