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Comments (47)This argument comes up too often, and it's silly that people (on both sides of the argument) get their noses out of joint. Here's an analogy: I make wedding cakes -- not many, just a few every year. I make incredible, custom-designed cakes. I use only my own unique recipes (and if you'd tasted the last cake I made -- Key Lime with raspberry filling and lime cream cheese frosting ... or the chocolate truffle cake with salted caramel filling that I'm developing for my own daughter's wedding, you'd understand), and people often come back for seconds or thirds. I deliver, set up, serve, package the bride's top layer for the freezer, and clean. My cakes are always a big topic of conversation at the reception, and former brides often tell me that years later their friends still remember their cakes. Every single time I do a cake, a few people quietly ask me for my card, saying they or a friend absolutely must come talk to me about a cake for a future wedding. HOWEVER, when people see my prices (all that quality and service doesn't come cheaply), about half of them suddenly decide that Harris Teeter's sheet cakes are pretty good after all, or doughnuts stacked up like they do on Pinterest is witty and different. Am I insulted? Nope. Everyone doesn't value the same things. Houses are the same. Not everyone has the same expectations, not everyone cares at the same level, and not everyone has the same resources. Thus, different choices. In my own life, here's what I know to be true: When my grandparents married back in the 1930s, my grandmother (a teacher and business owner, not connected to design in any way) spent two years drawing a sketch ... they built it, raised their family in it, my mother raised her family in it, and now my brother's raising his family in it. It's a GREAT house -- a mixture of farmhouse and bungalow. The public rooms are oriented to take in the best light (through very classic windows). The closets and pantry are all pushed to the interior of the house, and the house has wonderful flow. My very forward-thinking grandmother planned ahead for a living room extension (she couldn't afford to build it as big as she wanted), and she planned for extra bedrooms and a second bathroom to be added to the back. Over the years, it's had three kitchen remodels and a couple new roofs. The back porch was taken in to become a laundry room, and two new porches have been added to opposite sides of the house. Could it have been designed better? Maybe, but it's evolved over the years and has served our family well. On the other hand, my aunt was an architect. She and my uncle bought a simple ranch house -- I didn't think much of it. She really had "an eye" that other people don't. She opened up the family room and the living room into one area, and she added a master bedroom /bath towards the front of the house. It now looks NOTHING like that little ranch in which they started. It's now something of an eclectic contemporary, and I love it. It flows so well and is unique -- completely different from anything else I've ever seen. She cut "windows" between some rooms to let light flow through. She added a super cute flagstone patio out back. But does it function any better than the house my grandmother designed? No. And a final thought: Not everyone approaches this task with the same level of ability. Clearly trained architects have ability, or they wouldn't have made it through school. But among the rest of us, some have a better sense of space, etc. than others. The important thing is to be honest with yourself about your own abilities....See Morepuppies and kibble and poop, oh MY!
Comments (19)If you want a healthy puppy/dog and live longer. Then buy the more healthier expensive foods on the markets. Don't buy the cheap stuff from stores, go to pet stores and read the ingredients. You don't want anything that has by products as that is just garbage meats that they use. No whole wheats at all. And yes, no corn products at all for dogs or cats. They put them in because they are cheap and not good for our pets at all. I checked all kinds of foods and what is in them and didn't like what they put in them at all. I spent alot of time checking them all out and what can be bought around here. Also big suggestion is after you have checked around, then buy, don't buy huge bag, just buy the smallest bag to test your dog out on it first to make sure its liked as some dogs don't like certain ones. Our female dog, it drove me crazy as she would only eat dry and canned foods with chicken in it and so I had to search for them and found one brand and then the pet store didn't always have them and I finally had to give up and look and try another one. You can check on the internet for brands and check the ingredients what is in it. Yes, you will be paying a fortune but then again is your dog worth it? After hearing and still hearing of pets dying of kidney problems I worry about the cheap foods that people are still buying and feeding their pets and may still be a problem. Also so they don't get the runs, go slowly on introducing a new food, so mix it with the old food and put more and more of the new one until finally its used to it and no more old food. Now, tons have gone to the raw meats, at our local place we buy bones for our dog, they do the raw meats and tons come in and buy them up. I refuse to do that. I can't imagine giving raw meats to them. No, its cooked meats for our dog....See MoreAmount of feed for large breed pup?
Comments (24)Runsnwalken may be thinking of ethoxyquin, which is a preservative believed to be carcinogenic. Runsnwalken has consistently posted about the poor quality of commercial dog food, and while I agree with that basic premise, Ann Martin is guilty of overly-emotional fear-mongering and yellow journalism. The book is seriously light on REAL statistics and actual data. Quoting her book and making statements like dog food kills babies ("I'm quite sure somewhere in the us that a child has died/gotten sick from pet food")is conjecture, speculation, innuendo, sensationalism and histrionics. The top problems with Purina One are 1. The first ingredient is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food. It would have been far better is chicken meal was the first ingredient listed. 2. Therefore, the true first ingredient is corn gluten, a waste product. Whole grain corn appears again as the 6th ingredient. Corn is grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. 3. Brewers rice is the third ingredient. Brewers rice is a low quality grain and by-product. 4. The next ingredient is by-products. By-products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. 5. The fifth ingredient is wheat. Wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. 6. Beef tallow is a very low quality fat. It's also used to make fabric softener. 7. Pea bran is filler. No way could Purina One be considered a decent food. There are plenty of decent foods in the same price range. OH, and comparing Purina One to Science Diet is certainly comparing apples to apples since the main ingredient in science Diet is also corn. Try comparing Purina One to Kirkland or Canidae, both of which have a named meat source as a true first ingredient for a more valid experiment. As a bonus, both Kirkland and Canidae are CHEAPER. Healthwise is another decent food that is cheaper than Purina One. I've done the comparison and have found a remarkable difference in coats, eyes, teeth, ears, energy and overall health between grocery/feed store crap and even the cheapest super-premiums. I've also compared cheaper super premiums and the more pricey super premiums. For me, there was no visible difference between Kirkland and Wellness. I had to discontinue an all-meat product (EVO) because it was too rich As chickadeedeedee stated, the claim that euthanized pets are rendered into dog food has been debunked. Part of the study is quoted below "Because pentobarbital is used to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters, finding pentobarbital in rendered feed ingredients could suggest that the pets were rendered and used in pet food. CVM scientists, as part of their investigation, developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of the dog food. All samples from the most recent dog food survey (2000) that tested positive for pentobarbital, as well as a subset of samples that tested negative, were examined for the presence of remains derived from dogs or cats. The results demonstrated a complete absence of material that would have been derived from euthanized dogs or cats. The sensitivity of this method is 0.005% on a weight/weight basis; that is, the method can detect a minimum of 5 pounds of rendered remains in 50 tons of finished feed. Presently, it is assumed that the pentobarbital residues are entering pet foods from euthanized, rendered cattle or even horses. " Still not particularly appetizing, but not nearly as sensational as some would have you believe. Avoiding foods with ingredients such as "meat meal" and "meat by-products" (ahhhh...the mysterious "meat") is a good idea. I thought Shroppie gave a decent, general answer to your original question, Carmen_Grower_2007. Instead of thanking him (her?) you chose to snark at others and giggle at a spelling mistake. So others have SOHDD, but AMDD (Appropriate Manners Deficit Disorder) is OK?...See MoreRaccoon video
Comments (15)Love it! My sister used to feed a family of raccoons and they were so much fun to watch, especially the babies. They'd walk right into her living room if she left the door open. I have seen them washing their hands in the cat water dish on the deck. I know a woman who was bitten by a raccoon, but it was because she had accidentally blocked its position on her deck and it thought it was trapped in a corner....See Moremamapinky0
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