Category Archives: Feeding

And Then There’s Molly . . .

  By C-Myste | January 26, 2011 - 1:05 pm | , , ,
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Poor Molly.  We have decided that she will remain “The Virgin Princess” and so this was her last weekend in the conformation ring.

"How can you make me do this when I don't feel good?"

And then she spent Friday night and all day Saturday at the dog hospital.  We’re still not sure exactly why she got plugged up other than maybe too much bone and too little water.  Rehydration and several enemas took care of the problem, fortunately.  We are going back to always grinding the chicken rather than giving the dogs whole necks.

"My tummy hurt and I could have DIED!"

She didn’t show Sunday either, but did spend a lot of time asking to have her belly rubbed.

"You would miss me if I was gone."

Molly has had a tendency all of her adult life to be a little (ahem) rounder than I would like.  Recently she has been on a diet and is currently quite svelte.  When I took her to the dog hospital, she weighed in at . . . hold on . . . 22 lbs.   Somehow she has never looked that small to me.  No wonder she got fat when fed the same as her 30 lb mother.

I so belong in Portland rather than Medford.  When I went to pick Molly up on Saturday evening, there was another “Molly” in the hospital as well.  Her owner and I struck up a conversation.   Her Molly was a rescue who came pre-named; she wasn’t too keen on the name and called her dog “Molly Malone”.   I explained that my Molly’s registered name was “Free Speech” and that she was named after Molly Ivins.

In Medford, this usually generates a blank look.

In Portland, it begins an entire thread on how Molly Ivins was her hero too and do you remember the time she said . . .

Wake-Up Call

  By C-Myste | July 7, 2010 - 10:41 am | , , , ,
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5:50 a.m. Turn up your speakers for the full effect.

Ground turkey.  Snorffle, oink, yum!

Updates:

1) If you missed Jamie’s update on Phoebe in the comments on the post below, please be sure to check it out (link).

2) It looks like Nemo has found a forever home.   A big “Thank You!” to everyone who wrote about him.

3)  You may now go directly to my blog and skip the opening page; update your link to “blog.c-myste.com” .

4) I have made really good progress on the update to Shelley’s website at http://yasashiikuma.com.  Unfortunately we are having some issues with name servers.  They seem to keep getting updated with the old IP address from playersnitch.   Hopefully that will soon be resolved.

Charity misdirected?

  By C-Myste | December 26, 2009 - 9:41 am | , ,
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There has been an on-going story of dogs in Harney county which were recently part of a large rescue effort.  Some 90 dogs were “rounded up” ealier but there are still reportedly dozens on the property.

Links to Oregonian articles:

Humane society rescues 100 dogs in eastern Oregon

Volunteers try to save dozens of dogs left in Harney County after Oregon Humane Society rescue

Now, don’t get me wrong: I don’t feel that anyone needs to have over 50 dogs.  Or that the needs of the dogs were being met.  But here is the part of the most recent article that’s bothering me:

“The dogs fed on carcasses and meat scraps that the couple picked up from a local meat processing plant. Cattle carcasses and bones litter the desolate piece of land.

“It’s difficult to describe how sad it is,” Epping said.

The Andersons are under a release agreement to help round up the dogs and feed them properly, Glerup said.

Safeway donated about 3 tons of dry dog food. “They just put aside bags that were broken,” Glerup said.”

Um. Ok.  So.  I just can’t help but feel that the dogs were being fed better on raw beef than on whatever cheap broken bags of food Safeway donated.  “feed them properly” indeed.

I guess the moral of the story is to pick up the bones after the dogs finish with them.