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Dangerous Foods for Dogs

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I was catching up on my blog-reading today and found a review of The Simple Vegan Dog Book over at the martyVegan Soap Box. Included in the blog post  was a list of foods you should never give your dog, and, after doing a little more research, I’d thought I’d pass it on. I knew that you shouldn’t feed your dog chocolate, grapes/raisins, onions, and -DUH- alcohol, but the rest was news to me.

Dangerous Foods for Dogs

  • alcohol
  • avocados
  • bones from fish, meat, poultry
  • cat food
  • chocolate
  • coffee
  • cold cuts
  • eggs (raw)
  • fish (raw)
  • fried foods
  • garlic
  • grapes
  • marijuana
  • milk / dairy products
  • mushrooms
  • nutmeg
  • nuts
  • onions (often found in baby food, so no baby food either!)
  • persimmons
  • pits from peaches and plums
  • raisins
  • salt
  • sugar
  • tea
  • tobacco
  • tomatoes
  • xylitol

And here, also from The Simple Vegan Dog Book and posted on The Vegan Soapbox, is a recipe you CAN serve Fido, which I have to say looks quite taste.

Snoopy’s Great Pumpkin, Rice, and Beans

  • 1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin
  • 1 cup cooked brown rice
  • 1 cup cooked or canned red or black beans, rinsed and drained

Combine all of the ingredients in a food processor or blender and process until smooth.
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Recipe Giveaway – Just One Day Left!

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Guess who loves the new shrubs that D. and I planted in our yard last weekend?

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Rosie is so adorable – I didn’t have the heart to tell her to move.

The Compassionate Cooks Recipe Giveaway ends tomorrow Friday Sept 11 at noon. Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of Compassionate Cooks is giving away a set of five brand new vegan Italian recipes to our lucky winner who will be randomly selected tomorrow. These recipes haven’t been published in any of the Compassionate Cooks cookbooks (The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Joyful Vegan) so our winner will be one of the first people to have them! All you have to do is leave a comment at the end of yesterday’s post about your favorite vegetarian recipe. You can also increase your chances of winning if you:

  1. Tweet the contest on Twitter and make sure you mention @doubledogyoga.
  2. Post the contest on your blog if you have one – let me know that you’ve done so by emailing me at julia AT doubledogyoga DOT com.

Good luck! I can’t wait to see who wins!

Marty Update

Well good news is that Marty had her second surgery this morning and the surgeon called to let me know that all went well. She should hopefully be coming home later today. Since surgery has a 95% cure rate for fibrosarcoma, I fully expect that we are in the clear for now. Thank you so much for your thoughtful words and hopeful prayers. It really does make all the difference in the world.

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Don’t forget to enter into our Recipe Giveaway!

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the FURminator

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I think we’ve found the BEST PET ACCESSORY EVER.

It’s The Furminator !

If you have pets, you know how their HAIR goes EVERYWHERE! On my clothes, in my car, on my yoga mat, in my soup! It’s a bummer but comes with pet ownership. And who can resist these faces?

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Anyway, my friends Kat and Will told us about The Furminator because they use it to “de-shed” their two pups. We got ours last weekend and immediately went to work. When we finished FURMINATING both Marty and Rosie, this is what we had in our yard:

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It was getting dark and starting to rain and so we left the fur there, thinking we would rake it up in the morning. The next day, our next-door neighbor was out before we were and he thought that an animal had been attacked in our yard!

Anyway, if you have shedding pets you’ll definitely want to give this thing a try. www.furminator.com