Looking for a treat for your dog for Christmas? Instead of giving your dog people food try the following treats: Blue Dog Bakery Treats. These are real bakeries you can take your dog to to buy treats. If you don’t…
Food and Drink
Is it safe to give your dog a bone?
There’s been a lot of debate about whether or not it’s safe to feed dogs bones. Here are a few things to consider: You want them to chew the bone, not swallow it. So give them big bones as opposed…
Did I kill my dog with grapes?
My dog Teddy died last year from kidney failure. After she died, I found out that grapes can cause kidney disease in dogs. Grapes were her favorite treat. She used to balance them on the tip of her nose until…
Thanksgiving Dinner for Dogs
We boarded our dog Chase for Thanksgiving weekend but he didn’t miss out on dinner! On Thanksgiving he got turkey and rice with pumpkin yogurt for dessert! If you decide to feed your dogs Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, try to…
What kind of food do you feed your dog with allergies?
Teddy is allergic to chicken, beef and pork, so I feed her California Nature Lamb & Rice. You know your dog is allergic to something when they start gnawing and itching at themselves so bad they leave bald spots that…
Helping your puppy to not be food aggressive
When Teddy was a puppy I wanted to be very sure that she never got “food aggressive.†Whenever anybody came over to the house I’d have them stick their hand in her bowl and then pretend to eat some of her…
Free feeding your dog
When I got Teddy, my black lab/golden retriever/irish setter mix, I decided that I would free feed her. Free feeding means making food available to your dog all the time – as much as they want. If you start when…
How Much Chocolate Can Your Dog Eat?
My dog once ate an entire platter – a double batch – of chocolate fudge. You couldn’t even tell that there had been any fudge on the platter, it was that clean! She didn’t die but she did vomit quite…
Beer for dogs
Many of you have probably already read my post No Drinks for Dogs! Quite a few posted that they like to give their dog beer. Well, now there’s a safe option. A pet store owner in the Netherlands commissioned a…
Why do dogs eat grass?
Why do dogs eat grass? While there’s a lot of theories, I think the basic answer is "because they like it." Our dogs will eat not only grass but also wood and rawhide and anything else edible that happens to…
