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I’ve always believed that it’s important to feed my pets the healthiest diet I possibly can in order to ensure their health. Even when I had reptiles (yes I had several lizards at once believe it or not!) I used to make special salads for my iguana and prepare special food to feed the crickets that were fed to my lizards. So you can only imagine that now that I have a dog how careful I am about her food.
Luckily there are high quality dog foods out there – you just have to do a little research to make sure it really does have quality ingredients like those described in the above information.
My Labrador Retriever Midnight has been eating quality dog food since she came to live with us at eight weeks of age. She was quite ill when we got her and we had to give her a lot of tender loving care to make her healthy.
She’s four years old now and she’s doing great. Obviously from the photos and stories that I post every now and then you can see that she’s a great dog.
She has a great personality and I think she might even have a sense of humor .. because she’s downright silly … just look at this last picture – I swear she posed for this by rolling over with her favorite bone in her mouth. I call her my silly girl.
How do you care for your dog? Do you try to feed your dog a food with quality ingredients?
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October is almost over and it keeps on getting cooler here in Toronto. Most of our trees still have their leaves, but I’m sure that won’t be for long!
We spent yet another weekend – Or rather at least one day this weekend doing some more yard work in order to prepare our garden for winter. This time we were busy putting away things like our solar lights, garden ornaments and trimming back some of the plants that had become overgrown. I also took some time inspecting my rose plants and I cut out any dead branches that I noticed.
When the trees finally start to drop their leaves we’ll gather up some of the leaves and put them on our garden beds as we normally do each year. A good layer of maple leaves on our plants seems to help protect them through the winter.
Most winters we don’t get a lot of snow. Oh we get snow, but it snows, then it melts and we have a week or two of deep cold but no snow cover .. so if the plants are bare and exposed to all that cold it can really hurt them – so at least the deep leaf cover helps. Then of course it will snow again and our garden will have a foot or two of snow on it for a week or two until it melts again and that will keep the plants and ground insulated for a short while .. but the temperature changes the garden goes through through the winter because of our lack of good snow cover yet fairly cold temperatures can be quite hard on the plants if they aren’t prepared in the fall.
Do you put mulch or leaves on your garden beds in late fall to protect your plants over the winter?
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It’s not that hard to raise a healthy and Happy dog, but like anything, you do have to work at it a bit.
Pets, just like people need regular medical checkups, a balanced healthy diet and love and attention. The better the quality of care it stands to reason that your pet will have a long and happy life in your home.
We have a four year old Labrador Retriever and I have to say that she’s my favorite girl. She makes me laugh and smile every day. She keeps me happy and healthy by putting a smile on my face and by getting me out for walks etc and I keep her healthy and happy by playing with her, walking her, feeding her good food and making sure she sees her vet at least once a year for her check up and shots.
How do you keep your dog happy and healthy?
