Flyball Friday! 5-13

Peanut had a blast at flyball on Friday. We are working on passing drills. My crazy baby likes to growl and bark at the dog comming at her before she takes off. Me and Peanut are hoping to go to our first competition soon so we need to register for our CRN number and I am starting to figure out when to let her go depending on what dog runs in front of her.

Lollypop Farm Young Professionals Gardening

Volunteers Mulching



On May 11th 70 volunteers from Xerox came to the shelter and got a tremendous amount of work done. They spent the day cleaning the barns, fixing the farm stalls, planting flowers and trimming the bushes.

Lollypop Farm Young Professionals volunteers got together Wednesday night to finish some mulching. The whole front of the building needed to be mulched. We were able to get a majority of the work done and will be finishing up on Wednesday June 1st from 5:30pm - 7:30pm. Additional volunteers are welcome. If you are interested send an email to youngprofessionals@lollypopfarm.org. Benefits include helping out an amazing animal shelter in your community and good karma!

I'll Be Missing You

Hurry Home Mommy

I went away last weekend for a trip to the beach and I missed my babies so much! I wish I could tell them what was going on. I always worry that they think I've left them and I'm not coming back. I don't bring them to a kennel they stay home with my mom. Neither of them have ever been to a kennel. Saturday was a busy day so she spent most of the day at the babysitters with her best friend Princess. I was really happy to see them today. Peanut got a bouncy ball and Bailey got kisses.

Bailey is much more sensitive than Peanut. He has a little bit of seperation anxiety. When I'm putting my makeup on in the morning he knows I'm leaving soon and he starts crying. Patricia McConnell writes excellent dog books and she has one on seperation anxiety that I read a while back called I'll Be Home Soon.

Our Adventure at Boughton Park

Someone got tierd and wanted to be carried!

We finally had a little bit of nice weather in Rochester so we took the dogs to Boughton Park in Victor. I love walking there since only Victor and Bloomfield residents can go (you have to have a car permit) it is usually very quiet. We came across a few other people walking their dogs which Peanut loved. She wants to play with every dog. Peanut has been discovering water lately. She walked into the pond up to her chest looking for a frog. I tried to entice her to jump in by throwing a stick for her to chase but she didn't go for it. Bailey loves going to the park to sniff everything! Hes not as much of an athlete as Peanut tho and wants to be carried after a while.

Where did that frog go!!

Flyball Friday!

Friday night flyball in pictures!

Amber

Peanut's Favorite Part: Hurdles!

Flying Lou Bob

Peanut made me laugh so hard when she kept on running after she had the ball and ran right out the door! Into a fenced in yard thank goodness. I can just imagine her thinking come on mom and dad lets go play fetch outside.

Lollypop Farm Young Professional Group

Lollypop Farm Humane Society of Rochester has formed a young professionals group. I have volunteered to be on the groups committee. The goal of the group is to support the shelter through awareness and fundraising. We will hold educational, fundraising, and networking events around Rochester. The first event was held on Saturday. Several people from the group met at the shelter to do a spring cleaning of the grounds around Lollypop! It was a beautiful day and the volunteers were able to fill several bags with trash.

Our next event will be City Solve scavenger hunt and urban race on June 4th. This will be an exciting event for Rochester and a great fundraising opportunity for Lollypop. Teams solve clues and take on challenges for a chance to win $5,000 at the championship in Las Vegas. Local prizes will be available for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and best costume, best tweet, top family and top senior. If you've ever thought about entering the Amazing Race this is a good place to test out your partner! The creator of City Solve Jason Hofsess is from Ithaca NY. You can follow them on Twitter @citysolve and Facebook.

If you are interested in signing up for Lollypop Farm's Young Professional email distribution list send a blank email to youngprofessionals@lollypop.org.

Raw Food - Answers

Friday night I attended a free seminar on raw food for dogs at Boom Towne Canine Campus. The seminar was hosted by Jacqueline Hill from Answers Pet Food. I'm interested in raw food because I've heard of the enormous health benefits of feeding it but I really have not done much research into it. Jacqueline was a great presenter who really understood the material she was presenting. She has two mastiffs that she feeds a raw diet who are now 17 years old! Much older than a mastif's life expectancy. Raw food is superior to kibble because dogs are carnivores and kibble is mostly made out of grains. Another reason raw food is really good for our dogs is that it is not cooked and put under the pressure that kibble is. Kibble is cooked under high heat then squeezed out of high pressure machines to make its shape. This process destroys any nutritional value that is in the ingredients.

Answers sent us home with a free container of raw goat milk for our dogs. Raw goat milk is supposed to have great nutritional value for cats and dogs. Peanut, Bailey and Ollie really liked it. I'm going to start giving it to them once in a while.

I'm definitely going to be doing more research and thinking about raw diets for the dogs. I am also going to start following this blog about a vet that is transitioning her dog to a raw food diet. You can read about her experiences here: http://web.me.com/dramynesselrodt/RawDogFoodResearch/Welcome.html