Palette's summer treats diary; July 26th,2011
These days, I find that many days
are at over 90F in the day, and often times, we get thunderstorms,which makes Palette feel she prefers to be curled up under my desk,placing her head on my foot using as pillow, and she dozes off.
When she falls asleep, I feel her warm breath on my foot and sometimes, feel her twitching and,it makes me wonder what dreams she is having. When I feel her twitching,I like to see how she is twitching and sometimes, she seems to be running in the dream with ears moving to different directions and, sometimes,she is moving mouth as if she is eating something.
If I ever could talk with her, I definitely like to ask her what sorts of dreams she was having. It must be a fun chat to have with her
Since it has been so hot,walkie time is changed, but we do go for walkie at cooler time and often times,she tends to have a short nap after that.
Palette loves walkie and, after 5 years of walkie routine, she seemed to picked up the daily routine pretty good. When she sees me walking towards the poop bag box, she gets so jumpy and excited and she turns around to go to get the leash for walkie time. Sometimes, she brings it all the way to entrance since she knows that I would come down there later to go for walkie.
So, I do not need to ask her much that we need the leash for walkie now. If she could learn to gather everything we need for walkie such as poop bag,my shoes,her leash? That would be fun to teach,but I have a feeling that she would give me a poop bag with a hole
With "Palette's treats dairy" series, I thought it would be interesting for you to tour around our kitchen to see what kinds of cool down treats she is getting, and share her cool down treats' recipes.
I give the cool down treats after walkie, after she being bathed etc and,it is one thing she really will be looking forward to back home from walkie. She runs to the kitchen and be in the imaginary line for the cool down treats in front of the freezer and enjoy every bite of it.
I am having fun making it with whatever I found and taste it feeling Palette's eyes of envy beside me. Believe it or not, some of the random mix I make for her actually tastes good. Some of the mix are not my liking though.
If you do have interactive chew toys such as "Kong", you could fill it with these, although you may want to give your dogs designated area to chew on
I know there is a cool down treats/ cool down treats powder sold on the market but, making the cool down treats with real fruits,vegetables etc are much more nutritious than buying the commercial made ones for convenience.
So,make your own with real fresh food!
Now, I will pass a pen to Palette to write her diary here.
July 26th,
Dear diary,
It has been very hot in the day and, big boom in the evening. I can tell the evil big boom is coming over to us before it comes here and,I go to mom's and curled up under her desk and use her foot as pillow to doze off.
This is my secret plan for big boom day. If I fell asleep with mom's foot pillow, by the time I wake up, evil big boom is gone and, I got nothing to worry about.
The other day, dad was watching weather map to see where/when the big boom is to be, to plan his mowing time. I did not tell him but, I have a skilled nose and I could sniff out where the evil big boom is hiding. My Mom trained me very well with "Find it" game.
After a while, he pulled out a loud monster that makes my salad bar in the yard much shorter than they were. What was he doing with my salad bar??
I hoped that he will leave my particular salad bar area but, it seems he brought the loud monster closer to my salad bar! I gotta do something! Save my salad bar!
I whined loud and ..I got a good idea. I could summon mom to take me out to yard.
So, I hit the potty bell, and here she comes and took me out to the yard and,I went straight to the special salad bar and started munching them before the loud monster pays a visit to my salad bar.
I showed my back to the loud monster, never moved an inch and I kept going "nom,nom,nom,nom.." and loud monster decided to visit other area then. Did I saved my salad bar??
Sadly, later that day, all of my salad bar was gone... BUT, I have one more thing I could do with my salad bar. Last time when mom took me for potty, I have decided that I would need to claim my salad bar by rolling on the grass so others cannot have them. Rubbing my scent onto my salad bar and, big loud monster would not come anymore.. We will see how it works.
When we go for walkie, my mom tries to make me look good by spraying lemon water over my fur. Is that beauty spray for us?
I would not complain because I like to be look good especially for the miniature Schnauzer that seems to like me a lot. He whines from window, as we walk passes by and, once we greet each other and when we move on,he whines... He loves to sing a lullaby for me.How nice is that
Mom says the lemon spray was to repel the evil bug that could get me sick. Whatever it was, I feel beautiful,but I just feel like I need to get my scent back.
I tried rolling on the bird poop I found on the road,but mom said "leave it" and we kept going.That was the perfect smell I wanted to put on me.. Maybe next time.
Our house is getting closer and,all I think about now is cool down treats! Yum!
This time, I have been getting "Frozen apple Asparagus yogurt treats with hint of garlic".
Sounds fancy enough?
Frozen apple Asparagus yogurt treats with hint of garlic..
Here is how you make them.
1. To the mixer, add peeled,cooled down 1 clove of small garlic, peeled,cored, chopped Organic Fuji Apple 2.7 oz, steamed,cooled down and chopped Asparagus 4.2 oz, and 6.2 oz of Stoneyfield organic plain yogurt and puree them.
**Apple seeds are toxic for dogs because it contains "cyanogenic glycosides" .Do not let them munch on Apple core.
** Don't put too much garlic in the mix just because your dogs love them. Too much garlic can thin the blood and could cause anemia in dogs.
As I understand it, bellow is the amount of fresh garlic you can give to your dogs.
**Small dogs; 1/4 of garlic clove
** Medium dogs; 1/2 of garlic clove
** Large dogs; 1 garlic clove
** When you cook Asparagus, just hold both ends and bend it. It will snap where you should cut at. To steam them, pour a little water in the pan,drop the vegetable steamer in, and place trimmed Asparagus over. Then, set the heat to medium high and start kitchen timer 20 minutes.
5 minutes before the finishing time for steaming, drop 1 peeled garlic clove over to the Asparagus and cover the lid on.
Steamed Asparagus with garlic clove..
2. Pour those onto ice cube tray and freeze
** This will be about 10 blocks of treats in ice cube tray with my mom's. So, with hers, I am getting 1/10 clove of garlic via cool down treats. I get only one cube a day normally. I wish she could give me more though.
** Frozen Apple Asparagus yogurt treats whole amount is roughly about 197 kcal (you can see more detail at nutritiondata.com website here ).So, each ice cube given is about 19.70 kcal.
** Mom wanted rough kcal to be as close to real one, and she used Nutrition fact food label on the back of yogurt she used. She typed in the information provided in the nutrition label on the yogurt.
** Mom could not find the information on Fuji Apple nutrition,so she used regular apple nutrition information provided in the nutrition data.
Nom,nom,nom..This is really pawsome!
*Narrowing my eyes to taste the U- ma- mi (deliciousness)*
See? My nose are very wet! It just so.. good!
I got drooly too! Hmm.. Heaven!
Aww.. It all gone!! Staring at my mom with sad eyes..
*You want to give Palette one more cool down treats.You want to give Palette one more cool down treats..*
Would it work for another one? We will see..
When she falls asleep, I feel her warm breath on my foot and sometimes, feel her twitching and,it makes me wonder what dreams she is having. When I feel her twitching,I like to see how she is twitching and sometimes, she seems to be running in the dream with ears moving to different directions and, sometimes,she is moving mouth as if she is eating something.
If I ever could talk with her, I definitely like to ask her what sorts of dreams she was having. It must be a fun chat to have with her
Since it has been so hot,walkie time is changed, but we do go for walkie at cooler time and often times,she tends to have a short nap after that.
Palette loves walkie and, after 5 years of walkie routine, she seemed to picked up the daily routine pretty good. When she sees me walking towards the poop bag box, she gets so jumpy and excited and she turns around to go to get the leash for walkie time. Sometimes, she brings it all the way to entrance since she knows that I would come down there later to go for walkie.
So, I do not need to ask her much that we need the leash for walkie now. If she could learn to gather everything we need for walkie such as poop bag,my shoes,her leash? That would be fun to teach,but I have a feeling that she would give me a poop bag with a hole
With "Palette's treats dairy" series, I thought it would be interesting for you to tour around our kitchen to see what kinds of cool down treats she is getting, and share her cool down treats' recipes.
I give the cool down treats after walkie, after she being bathed etc and,it is one thing she really will be looking forward to back home from walkie. She runs to the kitchen and be in the imaginary line for the cool down treats in front of the freezer and enjoy every bite of it.
I am having fun making it with whatever I found and taste it feeling Palette's eyes of envy beside me. Believe it or not, some of the random mix I make for her actually tastes good. Some of the mix are not my liking though.
If you do have interactive chew toys such as "Kong", you could fill it with these, although you may want to give your dogs designated area to chew on
I know there is a cool down treats/ cool down treats powder sold on the market but, making the cool down treats with real fruits,vegetables etc are much more nutritious than buying the commercial made ones for convenience.
So,make your own with real fresh food!
Now, I will pass a pen to Palette to write her diary here.
July 26th,
Dear diary,
It has been very hot in the day and, big boom in the evening. I can tell the evil big boom is coming over to us before it comes here and,I go to mom's and curled up under her desk and use her foot as pillow to doze off.
This is my secret plan for big boom day. If I fell asleep with mom's foot pillow, by the time I wake up, evil big boom is gone and, I got nothing to worry about.
The other day, dad was watching weather map to see where/when the big boom is to be, to plan his mowing time. I did not tell him but, I have a skilled nose and I could sniff out where the evil big boom is hiding. My Mom trained me very well with "Find it" game.
After a while, he pulled out a loud monster that makes my salad bar in the yard much shorter than they were. What was he doing with my salad bar??
I hoped that he will leave my particular salad bar area but, it seems he brought the loud monster closer to my salad bar! I gotta do something! Save my salad bar!
I whined loud and ..I got a good idea. I could summon mom to take me out to yard.
So, I hit the potty bell, and here she comes and took me out to the yard and,I went straight to the special salad bar and started munching them before the loud monster pays a visit to my salad bar.
I showed my back to the loud monster, never moved an inch and I kept going "nom,nom,nom,nom.." and loud monster decided to visit other area then. Did I saved my salad bar??
Sadly, later that day, all of my salad bar was gone... BUT, I have one more thing I could do with my salad bar. Last time when mom took me for potty, I have decided that I would need to claim my salad bar by rolling on the grass so others cannot have them. Rubbing my scent onto my salad bar and, big loud monster would not come anymore.. We will see how it works.
When we go for walkie, my mom tries to make me look good by spraying lemon water over my fur. Is that beauty spray for us?
I would not complain because I like to be look good especially for the miniature Schnauzer that seems to like me a lot. He whines from window, as we walk passes by and, once we greet each other and when we move on,he whines... He loves to sing a lullaby for me.How nice is that
Mom says the lemon spray was to repel the evil bug that could get me sick. Whatever it was, I feel beautiful,but I just feel like I need to get my scent back.
I tried rolling on the bird poop I found on the road,but mom said "leave it" and we kept going.That was the perfect smell I wanted to put on me.. Maybe next time.
Our house is getting closer and,all I think about now is cool down treats! Yum!
This time, I have been getting "Frozen apple Asparagus yogurt treats with hint of garlic".
Sounds fancy enough?
Frozen apple Asparagus yogurt treats with hint of garlic..
Here is how you make them.
1. To the mixer, add peeled,cooled down 1 clove of small garlic, peeled,cored, chopped Organic Fuji Apple 2.7 oz, steamed,cooled down and chopped Asparagus 4.2 oz, and 6.2 oz of Stoneyfield organic plain yogurt and puree them.
**Apple seeds are toxic for dogs because it contains "cyanogenic glycosides" .Do not let them munch on Apple core.
** Don't put too much garlic in the mix just because your dogs love them. Too much garlic can thin the blood and could cause anemia in dogs.
As I understand it, bellow is the amount of fresh garlic you can give to your dogs.
**Small dogs; 1/4 of garlic clove
** Medium dogs; 1/2 of garlic clove
** Large dogs; 1 garlic clove
** When you cook Asparagus, just hold both ends and bend it. It will snap where you should cut at. To steam them, pour a little water in the pan,drop the vegetable steamer in, and place trimmed Asparagus over. Then, set the heat to medium high and start kitchen timer 20 minutes.
5 minutes before the finishing time for steaming, drop 1 peeled garlic clove over to the Asparagus and cover the lid on.
Steamed Asparagus with garlic clove..
2. Pour those onto ice cube tray and freeze
** This will be about 10 blocks of treats in ice cube tray with my mom's. So, with hers, I am getting 1/10 clove of garlic via cool down treats. I get only one cube a day normally. I wish she could give me more though.
** Frozen Apple Asparagus yogurt treats whole amount is roughly about 197 kcal (you can see more detail at nutritiondata.com website here ).So, each ice cube given is about 19.70 kcal.
** Mom wanted rough kcal to be as close to real one, and she used Nutrition fact food label on the back of yogurt she used. She typed in the information provided in the nutrition label on the yogurt.
** Mom could not find the information on Fuji Apple nutrition,so she used regular apple nutrition information provided in the nutrition data.
Nom,nom,nom..This is really pawsome!
*Narrowing my eyes to taste the U- ma- mi (deliciousness)
*See? My nose are very wet! It just so.. good!
I got drooly too! Hmm.. Heaven!
Aww.. It all gone!! Staring at my mom with sad eyes..
*You want to give Palette one more cool down treats.You want to give Palette one more cool down treats..*
Would it work for another one? We will see..
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