Howllo Fellow Hound and Chaps lovers: Well tomorrow is the big dreaded day. Chaps is getting his teeth cleaned and I just will worry until it is over. Can I get a group hug and some drool please? I would really appreciate it.
More worried Mom postings later….Love, Cat, Chaps (my burger boy) and Emmers
Howllo Fellow Hound and tipping the gold rush scale lovers!
Our friends, Mary, Harley, Biggs, Leo (the foster no longer!!) and the Kitties too of the Tipping Family and of TriState Basset Hound Rescue sent us a pan of gold for the House of Puddles! What a fantastic pan and we are Tipping our gold miner’s hats to you Mary!
The choker chain was 18K and the loop earrings and gold band were 14K. This pan of gold brought in 49.00 dollars. Wow! I am just thrilled and I know Marilyn and Mary will be as well. Here is the link to the HOP Gold Rush Firstgiving page so you can see this donation and others. Read all of the update and most of all….Please check your jewelery boxes!
Thank you Mary. We love you!
More Gold and Love Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and cherry pie corvette lovers: I know you are out there! As you can see I have added a link to the famous corvette raffle which is held yearly by Guardian Angel Basset Rescue, Inc.
This is so exciting! I was thrilled to see the House of Puddles as a raffle participant this year! We all know how well the HoPpers can sell raffle tickets!
So click on the link right above and learn how to purchase your raffle tickets today. Chaps will be getting his soon. Can you imagine the Mayor, riding on the back of the vet with his ears blowing in the breeze? Waving his majestic paw to the adoring masses????? I can! Slurp
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh………….Life is good.
More dreams later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Felllow Hound and blind hound lovers: Do you have a picture you can send me of your hound who has glaucoma? I am in the process of making a YouTube video to attach to Emma’s fund-raiser. Go to my contact page and send me a jpeg. Your hound can be a part of a really cool video I am making and help raise money for the Canine Health Foundation. You can see Emma’s new Firstgiving page right below!
More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
OMG! Howllo Fellow Hound and Emma Lovers: I have been working on this since our Emma went blind.
This is really important to us! Here is the link!
http://www.firstgiving.com/emmarudertbassethoundtown
Benevolent Emma! Please join her!
P.S. Plus you get a freebie! hehehehe
Howllo Fellow “well meaning and kind” Lovers: Today Emma will have a BIG announcement. Please check back and see how she plans to help other hounds!
Ah…..Benevolent Emma, I am so proud!
More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and Dreamy Emma Lovers! Hahaha! I just had to share this picture of our Emma. This was taken years ago. She was trying on a new snood she received as a present and just about to fall asleep. She was looking into the camera as if to say, “Mommy, how cute am I?” If you click on the picture it will be huge! Caution…..Cuteness over load!
More Emma later….Cat, Chaps and Emmers
Howllo Fellow Hound and Fragile Emma lovers! Angel left a comment on my last blog post about Emma and I had to laugh! Yes, she is that fragile! I finally have it under control, but it took thousands of dollars and many vet visits to figure it out. Angel, I am answering your questions in a blog posting because maybe it will help others with fragile hounds as well! hehehe
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omg~! w0w, she’s that fragile? and ur doing a fantastic job in keeping an eye on her! but 50 dollars for her chow? w0w0w0weee… that’s like over 2,000 philippine pesos here~!
and this post is very informative:
*jots down rabbit and potato chow, micro-waved shredded red potato slurry, slice of red potato*
what is a red potato? is it also the so-called sweet potato? how do u make the slurry, ate cat? hope u dun mind 😉
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There are more than 5,000 varieties of potatoes in the world. In the United States, the most common variety includes the red potato.
Round, red potatoes belong to the red family of potatoes and include the Red Lasoda and Red Pontiac varieties. Red potatoes have smooth, thin skins and white insides. This type of potato is firm and most easily used in casseroles, soups, salads or boiled, steamed and roasted.
I like to use red potatoes because they seem a bit sweeter to me. They also have a thinner skin and you should not give hounds thick potato skin.
These are not yams, aka sweet potatoes.
To make the slurry I take a potato about the size of the one above and grate it into two small containers, one for breakfast and one for dinner. These pictures show the breakfast serving. This one container is divided for Chaps and Emma.
I add water to make it look like this. I then microwave it for one minute and it turns into a mush. I mix it over their kibble and serve it warm. They both love it. Chaps used to be a picky eater until I devised this. By doing this I feel that Emma gets a bit of a treat.
Emma is allergic to protein along with a host of other things. The protein in commercial grade dog food would cause her to have UTIs (urinary tract infections). By switching her to a prescription diet with highly digestible proteins we were able to get this under control.
It is well worth the cost of the food to avoid all the medical problems that our poor Emma had. Bless her heart, she loves to eat and I am teaching her to say, “I’m hungry”! It is so cute, I cannot wait to capture it on video. She is sooooo smart.
I hope this helps Angel
More Later…Cat, Chaps and our little potato Emma!
Howllo Fellow Hound and chow hound lovers! Today I had to make my trip to Emma’s vet to purchase her prescription hound chow. Emma is severely allergic to many things, including her food. Not only is the poor girl blind, but she has to eat bland food. Bland expensive food! The current price for a 20 pound bag of her Rabbit and Potato chow is 50.00 dollars! The cost went up 5.00 dollars a bag to cover the gas for the truckers to bring it to the vets! Plus, it takes me 20 minutes to get to her vet to buy the food!
Eating has always been Emma’s high point. I add micro-waved shredded red potato slurry to her meal every night to jazz it up.
Her only treat is a slice of raw red potato.
We are sick of the short end of the stick! Thank goodness we have each other!
More Later…Cat, Chaps and sweet Emma,
P.S. What does Light Sweet Crude mean anyway?
Howllo Fellow Hound and Beach Lovers: This picture just came into me from my friend Andrea! Here is a picture of her family’s 3 bassets and their foster. From L – R is: Duchess, Molly, Dudley, and Lola the foster! Lola is looking for her forever home and Dudley looks like it can be none too soon! Just kidding. They are probably fast friends, but look at that expression on his face! Priceless. 
This just in from her Foster Mommy:
“Miss Lola is on the beauties on the SuncoastBassetRescue.org website. They will be posting her picture soon! She is HW+ and will receive treatment soon. She will be spayed tomorrow.”
Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
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