Raw Food Seminar at Boom Towne

I'm always interested in the best food to feed the dogs because I want them to live forever. Currently I feed them a high quality dry food, canned wet food, and the occasional home cooked meal. I don't know much about raw diets besides that I hear they are great. Honestly they kind of freak me out, sounds grose.

Boom Towne is offering a free seminar about raw diets on May 6th at 5:30pm. Jacqueline C. Hill will be giving the seminar. She worked as a vet tech for 15 years and now works for one of the largest raw pet food manufactures in the country. She sounds like a reliable source for information on this topic.

Collecting Cans for Bfest

Thats what $200 in cans looks like!

Part of the secret to my success last year for Barktober Fest was collecting cans. It sounds ridiculous but it does actually add up. At least $600 of my total last year came from cans. Now I did have a connection and the recycling center that would let me collect cans there but some of just came from my house, friends, and my office. Don't get me wrong returning the cans at times was really gross but people can be more willing to give up their recycling then money sometimes.

I've started early this year collecting cans. Right now its just from a few friends, my office, my moms office and home but it does add up quick. I returned $17 worth of cans the other night. I hope this year to be the #1 Barktober Fest individual fundraiser but the competition is steep!

Muffin Pan Game

Peanut and I headed off to Flyball yesterday only to find that there was an agility competition running late at Boom Towne. We stayed and watched some of the dogs compete but poor Peanut was dying to get out there and run around. The competition ran so late that practice was canceled. So when we got home I wanted to give the dogs something interesting to do. I remembered the muffin pan game that I had learned at Lollypop Farm's Boredom Busters Workshop.

The idea of the game is to get an old muffin pan and some tennis balls. We couldn't find enough balls so we used all sorts of their toys. I hid some cheese under one of the toys and the dogs had to take turns figuring out where the treat was. It sounds simple but its a good puzzle to keep the dogs minds active!

Flyball Practice 3-4-11

Peanut is really starting to figure flyball out. Last Friday we worked hard on her box turn. Before then she was doing the turn well but we had not incorporated the ball yet. We finally got all of the pieces together and had her doing a swimmers turn on the box and grabbing the ball! Our first little break through. She is going to be a flyball queen in no time! Of course I was not able to get this on video but I did get some pictures of her practicing the box turn.

Naughty Little Peanut

I love buying different treats for the dogs. This week I bought new organic duck treats. All four dogs loved them. They broke up nicely to use as training treats so I was planning on saving most of them for Peanuts next flyball class. Well Peanut had something else in mind. Stupidly I left the bag sitting on the coffee table and went to work. By the time I came home on lunch to check on the pups Peanut had already taken the bag of treats and eaten all of them! Poor girl had a tummy ache for a few days.

Lollypop Telethon 2011

The 15th annual Lollypop Farm Telethon is being held this Saturday March 5th at Eastview Mall in Victor! The telethon is one of Lollypop's biggest fundraisers every year. The fundraising goal this year is $208,500 and all of that money stays in our community to help the animals. There will be tails of hope showed staring Timber the dog thrown away in the garbage, who now lives with a loving family.

This year my Barktober Fest team Kribbit's Kritters will have an informational table set up at the Telethon to recruit people for our team. Last year was my first time participating on a BFest team and we were #1! As a team we raised close to $14,000 (to date the most any team has raised!) my personal fundraising contribution was around $2,500. This year we hope to raise even more money for the animals. I was the #3 top fundraiser last year, this year I'm striving for #1!