A Day In The Park

A few month ago a new dogie park was open in our city, my dogs love to play there and meat their other friends.
This park is only for dogs, and only friendly and playful dogs.
My two dogs are two opposites, Apchi is already climbing and jumping and running and Hetzi, well he is special, and loves to take his time...

Here is Apchi coming out of the tube, waiting for here treat.

We took this video a bout a week ago, for some unknown reason the other dogs didn't show any interest in us and the yami food.

Enjoy

Apchi has a twin

Apchi is a our female dog, my husband found her on the street two years ago, exactlly two years ago, she was only a puppy, 3 month old with sad eyes.

Yesterday my husband and I took the dogs to their evening walk and when we arrived to the park, just in front of us was her twin, we both jumped and said: 'Did you see Apchi's brother?' :)

He looks exactlly like her, a perfect copy, the only thing missing was the white spot she has on her nose.
They also wear the same collar color, and even wag their tail the same.
When Apchi wags her tail it doesn't go from left to right but in circles.

Well, that's it I had to share this with you, he was so cute, I had to check him out, and Apchi, being so possessive, jumped and scared him a way and we never sow him again.

The Fleas are Here

Well not exactly here but they coming, my mother reported ticks a couple of days ago and her dog already got the full treatment.

My sweet dog are something different.
Apchi for example is a flea magnet, the minute the air starts to worm up she start to scratch, then i know it's time to a bath a tick collar and drops.
this sweet black dog is also allergic to the new grass that grow when spring arrive. So no grass for you for two months.


Hetzi, here in the photo licking his nose, the opposite, fleas are afraid of him, in his whole almost 8 years I never sow a flea on him, so i was very surprised to see him scratch like crazy last year. After a long treatment and suffering I realized that my sweat dog is allergic to the fleas drops and that is why he always screamed (did ever hear a dog scream? it is awful) when we sprayed him. So this year no drops and no spray, just a collar for you, sweet dog.

Happy Birthday too YOU

Happy Birthday too My sweet and beautiful dog
APCHI

Apchi is 2 years old today.
My husband found her on the street on April 2006, so we don't know the exact date of her birthday. she was a sweet little puppy, and she was hungry and she gave him the look, so he picked her up gave her food and water and the rest is history.
We new she is about 3 month old so I decided that January 1st is the best date for her birthday.

We are celebrating the birthday with extra candy and the favorite food "Bamaba"(peanut snack)
I usually buy a new toy too, but my dogs have so many toys already and I bought them a new toy last week, so no new toy today, I'll give her the one I bought last week

Happy Birthday to Apchi and all of you how are celebrating

and

Happy New Year

It's rainnig

It is raining outside, and the ritual begins, my sweet dog is collecting all the rain in his far.
I have two dogs "Hetzi" a male and "Apchi" a female, they both very hairy, but only Hetzi is a water collector, Apchi can collect all the rain, but she is leaving it outside, but Hetzi NO!, So we have a cleaning ritual, since the dogs are living with us inside the house we have to clean them and dry them, otherwise, they'll wet the all house.

Now, Look at him, he is all wet, like a door mat and he looks like a porcupine all the short hairs sticking up, and he looks so miserable, and then here comes the towel and he hates it, the towel is his worth enemy, why? because its job is to clean him up, I thunk he rather be wet and cold and dirty then dry, worm and clean, but, we developed a tactic.

The best way to grab his attention is with sausage, my husband is holding the sausage high in the air, and nothing else matters. All he cares about now is how to get this sausage inside his mouth and swallow it.

This is my time to start working with the towel, dry him from head to tows (but really from his head to his tows).

After the war is over and I wan, the first thing he dose is to go to the kitchen and see if there are any other leftovers on the kitchen counter, and after the big disappointment, he is going to the sofa to cuddle with Apchi near the heat.

This our cue to stop bothering him and let sleep, quietly all day long.

Poor dog, has such a "hard" life

Making a dog sweater

I am finally doing something I wanted to do for a long time.
I always wanted to make myself a sweater from my sweet dogs fur.

So I am collecting.

I don't know a bout people in Israel that do that professionally so I am going to work with a company from the USA.

They called VIP Fibers
All i have to do is collect and send them the fur and a picture of my sweet doggie and they will make the yarn and even knit me a scarf or a sweater, I haven't decided what i want, yet.

So this company have all the instructions on how to collect your pets hair, how to storage it, how to ship it, how much you need to make a scarf or a sweater or anything your heart desires.

I started collecting, my dog is actually falling a part and if I started collecting years ago I could redo my wardrobe every year with his fur only :)

So, all of you dog lovers, or any other pet, this is a very nice idea, it is human, you are not hurting your dog, you are only using the hair that falls of your dog or the hairs you cut from it.

I never cut my dog's hair, he doesn't need it, but I am brushing him everyday, and collecting the fur from the brush.

This can be a very beautiful souvenir from your dog to you

Note: If you don't have a dog you can buy dog yarn from them too.

VIP Fibers - visit their site here

My baby is sick

My sweet little dog is sick, last week we visited the vet and he gave him a treatment for flees. the usual treatment we give him every other month, the problem was that the dog started scratching, and scratching, and on Saturday we noticed that his whole body was red and he injured himself from scratching all the time.

So, the first thing I did is to put the collar on his head to stop him from biting himself, but it didn't help he kept scratching with his legs, so we put socks on his legs, but my dog is smart, he took the socks off, so I tried pants, well you can realize that he is very smart and he took them off too, you can't imagine how happy he was after he too the pants off.

In the evening his condition got worse, his had fever, and just lay there with no mood, and we took him to the vet.

before we went to the vet I read his all file again, I keep a record of everything, and I noticed a pattern, every time the dog got flee treatment, he started to scratch, the difference was that this time is was bad, very bad, and I mentioned that to the vet, and read the dog's file too, and agreed with me:

My sweet dog had a very bad allergic reaction to the treatment.

We took a very good care of him, he got a shot and antibiotics, and his fever is fine, and he is happy again :)

and when my dog is happy I am happy

This experience was very frightening for me, but it's over and that's the most important thing.

Look at my beautiful dog, he is enjoying his dinner :)

Doggies Cookies (by Gil Hovav)

Gil hovav has this wonderful recipe book called "Presents from the kitchen".
The last recipe in the book is Doggies Cookies.
And I must say these cookies are amazing. I tasted them, and to put it nicely, I really didn't like them, but, they made for dogs, and my dogs loves them!!!
For a change a cookie that yo u know whats in it.
You can follow the recipe and you can modify it if you don't have all the ingredients.
the bottom line, they are good!
keep in mind your dog will love them, so give them 1 or 2 cookies a day. not more.







DOG COOKIES
By Gil Hovav from "Presents from the Kitchen"


Ingredients:
11/2 cups Flour
1/2 cup corn flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
4 spoons grain wheat
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 spoons meat soup powder (I use chicken soup)
100 gr Margarine - diced (you can use butter)
1 egg
1/2 cup meat soup
1 oiled baking dish

Preparations:
1) Put all the dry ingredients in a food processor with a steel blade and mix.
2)Add Margarine (or butter) and mix until you get big crumbs.
Set the oven to 180°c.
3)Add the egg and half the soup. mix and keep poring the soup gradually until the dough becomes a ball.
4)On a floured surface flatten the dough to a 2 cm thickness and cut the cookies in a bony shape (I cut them to circles or squares)
5)Bake for 30 min.

*You can keep the cookies in a jar outside the fridge for 30 days.

BON APPETIT!

Welcome to Tanny's blog

Isn't blogging fun?

Well, I always wanted to start my own blog, a place where i can blab about everything I love in this world.

Like:
my sweat dogs

This is Hetzi, it means 0.5 in Hebrew, and he (yes, he!) is the most sweat beuteaful dog you'll ever see, he is really handsome, and he is 7 years old




This is Apchi, She is 1 year old and 10 month, she is a street dog, she actually found us





More about them in the future.

I work full job as a laborant in high school

In my spare time I love to read, I am rereading the whole Harry Potter series now, I just can't have enough of it.

My best hobby is jigsaws (big ones) and Puzzles.

Well it's been a long day

see you all very soon

Tanny