A Noble Cause

We just visited over at Nanook and Pooka's blog
(http://nanookthenewfy.blogspot.com/) and read this story about Archie, a therapy dog in need of an operation. That is his picture with one of the abused children he lives and works with. He needs an operation, and the home where he lives is short on funding for vet fees. Yes, Nanook and Pooka have a link where you can contribute to a fund to help pay for his operation. And yes, me and muzzer made a contribution in Oscar's memory, And yes, you can do that too.

And yes, you may now be excused to go click on the link and read the story.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Kissies to all

Gussie

Eating well, thank you!

A number of my bestest friends have enquired politely about my health and whereabouts. That is because I have not been blogging lately. Why? Well, mostly because muzzer is lazy. But also, we have been experimenting with new foods, and I am in charge of taste testing and quality control. I have been quite busy!

Muzzer is a wuss. She has been hearing a lot of stuff and reading a lot of stuff about the pet food recalls. And she is naturally a worry-wart. And she became convinced that this was some sort of a plot to bring Americans to their knees out of grief for their beloved pets. So she has started cooking most of our food! This is OK by me, muzzer is a pretty good cook, and I enjoy leftovers and doggy bags, so I thought...."well, I can handle portabello ravioli in lobster sauce and I really like bracciole, and chinese takeout isn't bad, but I'm not fond of the really hot stuff from the Thai place." All in all, I figured we would make out like small, smart bandits.

OOPS. She wasn't talking about increasing the number of portions from the human dinner and serving that to me 'n Teka. NOOOO. She is cooking dog food! Do you know how many thing dogs are "not supposed to have?" Lots. I was pretty sure it was going to be not much better than kibble.

Wrong Gussie! Now, the picture below shows the meal for this evening. We have ground turkey, rice, some brewer's yeast, carrots and peas, and a little left over rissotto. It may not photograph well, but

As you can see from Teka's picture, we have learned to look forward to eating muzzer's most recent creation.

It is pretty good stuff, and for variety we have chicken with sweet potatoes and that vegetable that is named after me (asparaGUS!) and some kind of fishy (not Koi) with green beans and barley, and a couple other pretty good things.
Since I am in charge of product development, quality control and taste testing, Teka helps out with the cleanup. She is very thorough, and sometimes actually crawls into the basket to make sure she has not missed anything. She has done this a couple of times, and each time her weight makes the basket thingy roll to the back of the dish cleaner thing, and she gets very upset. But, she is only just a year old, and not as wise as I, Gus Dagger w.f.t.!

Thank you all for asking about us. We are fine, and now that muzzer is helping blog again, I will try to keep us up to date.

Have a wonderful week, and special thanks to Nanook and his mom, who posted the Delicious recipe for doggy frozen treats on his website! Yummy.