Spent her last day in doggie boarding school. I'm back from our vacay and will pick her up tomorrow. I missed her so much!

Brittany played quite a bit today. She also napped a lot. This evening she watched game 2 of the World Series with us.

Brittany was "at attention" when the delivery guy brought the groceries, but she was not straining to get away or lunging. She's so good!

Two of four pups enjoyed keeping me company on the cedar swing in the sunshine.

Blade's pup has watched football with him all day.

My senior pup is doing good on her new meds and has rested comfortable today.

The youngest 2 pups played hard today and crack me up how much they adore each other.

Brittany started learning how to catch things that aren't thrown straight at her. She's already good at catching things that are thrown high, but not so good at judging how to move from side to side. By the time we finished, she was starting to get it. She had the concept, just not the moves yet.

Brittany is sick to her tummy. She hasn't been able to keep any of her dog food down for two days. Today I just fed her a banana, and when she did okay with that, I scrambled an egg for her. So far, so good. I will give her a little bit of pumpkin and some rice tomorrow and see how she does with that.

Brittany has been doing well for three days with increasing amounts of egg, banana, pumpkin and chicken broth/rice. Tomorrow I will start adding small amounts of her regular food and see how she does with that.

I'm also going to start feeding her three times a day with a slow feeder bowl (instead of twice a day out of a regular bowl). Slow feeder bowls are on sale at Chewy!

My cats are being lazy freeloaders. A friend of mine got me "cat crocs" and I tried to do a photo shoot with them wearing the crocs but they gave me a hard "no". Now they are sleeping next to their abandoned shoes.

Brittany has continued to not be able to keep her dog food down, but we tried it again today - just a half scoop, with some pumpkin, and chicken broth rice with some pumpkin for another meal. I also gave her half a banana and an egg for another small meal. She kept it all down so here's hoping.

I caught her trying to eat paper twice, and I got to her before she swallowed any, so that may be part of her problem. She loves to make confetti. I had no idea how much paper was in my house until I had a dog who could find it anywhere.

Dog food warning - AND, Brittany's fine
 

We finally figured out the source of Brittany's tummy problem; I had accidentally bought her the high protein dog food instead of the regular. The labels for Purina One are very similar, and I had ordered it delivered by Kroger, so I did not have a chance to closely inspect the bags at the store.

I told my sister about the problems Brittany was having, and she said the same thing happened to my niece's dog. Her vet explained that it happens all the time when people get the high protein version of their dog food. (And hers was Pedigree, not Purina One.)

So we threw out the high protein food, got the right food, and started giving it to her in small and then ever-increasing amounts along with her "sick" food (rice in chicken broth, pumpkin, egg). For a few days now she has been completely back on her regular food with no problems, and she's had a few small Pup-peroni pieces as rewards, and she's had a couple of half bananas. She's doing just fine.

I really want to spread the word about that high protein food, though. There may be some hard-working dogs who need it, but it seems like it makes an awful lot of dogs sick.

I probably shouldn't be thinking about changing Brittany's diet so soon after we got her tummy straightened out, but have any of you tried an air dried kibble, like The Pet's Table? I did try Brittany on Dr. (somebody's) dog food once and she liked it, but it was way too expensive. The Pet's Table is about the same as what I spend on Purina One. Do you have any experience with it?

I often give B a single knotted dish towel with treats wrapped up in it for her to untie and get the treats out. But today I double knotted the towel. She gave me kind of a dirty look. and it didn't take her very long to figure out how to unknot it. I didn't think it would, but I was afraid she might not even try. No problem, she went for those treats!