New Year, New Diet

 We're a lot like humans, we watch what we eat.  Aunt Pat would argue that it isn't the same.  Chloe and I watch just about anything:  kibble, Charlee Bears, paper, grass, dirt, and stuff we find on our walkies, like hamburger bun pieces, pizza crusts fragments, and a bread stick Chloe found in a snow drift, go into our mouths and into our stomachs.  Aunt Pat says that watching what you eat means to eat stuff that's healthy.  Since Chloe and I would want to sample one of every type of food at the pet store, which the pet store would not like, we trust Daddy and Aunt Pat to make the decision about the main food we eat.

Anyway, Daddy had found out that the manufacturer of the dog food we were eating had been purchased by a very large company.  The last time this happened with our other food company, the quality of the food suffered, and we could tell.  So, Daddy had a nice chat with the owner of the pet store, who recommended an all natural product that he is involved in.  It's made in New York, and uses only high quality ingredients that he and his partners have control over.  The product is called Grandma Mae's Country Naturals Low Fat.  This is dry food, and the kibble pieces are a lot smaller than the food we were eating so Chloe has an easier time chewing this brand.  Daddy and Aunt Pat decided to change our wet food as well, since the wet food was from the same company as our old dry food.  Once we were on the new dry food, and it was obvious that our tummies were doing well, they changed us to a brand called Nature's Variety Prairie.  We didn't have any tummy upset during the changeover, and the humans are happy since my, sh..err, poop doesn't stink as badly as it did.

 

You can see that Daddy hung up the picture he got Aunt Pat for Christmas up over the mantel in the family room.  It's right next to the shadowbox he made to remember Katie, and above our Christmas photos.  The sailing ship is called the Cutty Sark and is a model Daddy and Aunt Pat's father made when they were kids.  The other photo above the ship is a waterfall somewhere.  Aunt Pat got it at some art festival that they don't allow dogs at.  :(  They have some smaller photos on the other side of the mantel and Aunt Pat wants to get something a little bigger to balance the wall out.  She thinks all the dog photos on one side may weigh the wall down a little.  I think the wall would be perfect if they put more photos of us on the other side.  Aunt Pat could enlarge a couple of photos...after all, we are very photogenic as you can see.

Granted, Chloe needs to go to the Groomer again, but afterward, I know Aunt Pat could take some really cute photos and then the family room would be full of....us!  Daddy and Aunt Pat's graduation photos are on the opposite side of the mantel, as well as their dad's retirement portrait with their mom.  Everyone knows you can never have too many family photos.