A note from Mom.

Dear friends....

My family has fallen on some extremely hard times. I regret to say that we must put up all 4 of our cats for adoption. The economy has struck us hard, my husband is working part time to try to make ends meet and we are barely making it. He is leaving for the Army in September and at that time my children, dogs and I will be moving in with my in laws. My father in law is highly allergic to cats and we can not bring them with us, and I don't have the heart to take them to a shelter, I would like to find them homes myself. I feel bad enough about having to let them go, they're my babies. But when it comes down to it, my children have to come first and we just can't afford to keep the place we're staying in currently. We need to start paying off some unpaid bills. If you know of anyone who's around us and would like a cat, please pawmail me. They are all good with children, other cats but they do not particularly like dogs. They put up with our dogs, but it took them about 6 months or so to get used to each dog.... :(

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Hello everyone! Val's mom here.

As many of you know my adopted mother passed away of breast cancer on September 18th. This has been really hard on my family and I would just like to take a minute to remind all of our Dogster friends to please remember to do your monthly BSE and get your mammograms done! If you don't have health insurance and need a mammogram, please let us know and we can direct you to someone in your area that will do them at reduced cost or for free.

My Barkday is Tuesday (9/22) and Momma's bringing me a- doggie!

My first Barkday is on September 22nd and I'm so excited because that is also the day my Momma is bringing home our potential new fur-sis! Momma is getting prepared for her arrival now, she is a black lab mix named Xena. We're very excited to be fostering her for the G20 summit! Daddy said if all goes well and we are approved for adoption she'll officially be our fur-sis! Momma brought home her food, leashes and collar today so that she is prepared to bring her home on Tuesday!
Momma's baking some treats and making me a cake I'm so excited, the kitchen smells so good right now! Only a few more days!

Schools and SD

So Momma was telling Dad that she I received an order form in class today for SD. She asked the professor if they sponsor the school or what the deal is because it's really not a good food. Her prof. proceeds to tell her that it's a great food. She laughed and just said not really. She does think it's nice that they (Hills) provides free food for the kennel animals (there's a good amount of them), but it really irritates her that they brainwash the educators. Next term she has a nutrition course and is thinking about starting a debate on the quality of foods. SD made our skin and coats so bad, and it has much improved since feeding Canidae, they're soft and shiny (or as Momma likes to call them "puppy soft") She also wonders why the better dog food companies don't infiltrate the schools the way that Hills does. She hadn't heard of a lot of the better foods until she joined dogster. We love the dogster foodies! They are very knowledgeable and are willing to help any doggie and human that is willing to listen!