February 2015 Blog Posts (8)

Sad, scary article on Purina from the Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/24/dog-food-maker-sued-for-allegedly-toxic-chow-but-is-it.html

Please let your friends know about this commercial on the Academy Awards as so many people record shows to avoid the commercials. This little dog, probably Maltese/Terrier mix was rescued from the Devore Shelter in San Bernardino. This is definitely a high kill shelter.



http://youtu.be/b3vNlnAv2og

This is a heartwarming story and hopefully will gain interest for rescue dogs...

BTW: The Westminster Kennel Club forced Purina to…

Sidenote: Hmmm...so...I don't know if people do this, or your aloud... but my original plan when writing The First Year was to make it a series where an update on how my Goldendoodle is doing will pop up in the Blogs section once in awhile.

So, how do I start this off...I have more pictures! Yeah!

Sorry for bad quality. Anyways,…

As women sometimes do, I was having an emotional morning.  Standing in the blustery subzero darkness in my pjs and overstuffed down coat waiting for Gracie to do her biz, tears rolled down my face. Wishing for her to hurry up but oblivious to what she was actually doing, I look down and Gracie was sitting there in front of me lifting her paw and pawing at my leg - as if to say it will be ok, Mom. Kind of like a child will do when they see their mom all flustered and rush to give them a…

Okay, yesterday Ruby got her City of Boulder license tag and her rabies tag. I put them on her collar with her Ruby identification tag. She looks like a Christmas tree. The Rabies tag is bright green and shaped like a bell, her Ruby name tag is red and the Boulder license is silver. We still have to get our City of Boulder Open Space tag...a blue tag. She can reach the city license tag and is chewing on it. They make a racket [she could be in a band]. I know she'll get used to them but…

By Max Brazier

(Featuring Melanie Brazier)

Only nineteen more days till my not yet named Doodle comes over! For now, lets just call him Figure A. 

As you can see from the picture above, he's a Blonde Mini Goldendoodle.…

This is a story about redemption and second chances.

Last week I went home to Indiana and stayed with my niece and her husband.  They have a big, black dog named Marshmallow.  Marshmallow started out life with my nephew, his wife, and three kids, and when my nephew and his wife got divorced, Marshmallow became one of the casualties.  At the time, I agonized over whether or not I could handle three dogs, two of them super-sized, and was so relieved when my niece (Mar’s aunt)…