Recycled dog recycles

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Fisher

Dear friends,
I want to introduce you to my amazing friend Max A Pooch, the recycling dog on a mission.
Bad luck to worse luck: At just six months old the black Labrador retriever became a throwaway dog and ended up in an animal control facility, scheduled to die and have his remains dumped in a landfill.
Worse luck to good luck: Black Labrador retriever got recycled (rescued) by Orphans of the Storm Animal Shelter of Riverwoods, IL.
Good luck to great luck: Keith Sanderson, writer and animal advocate, adopts the throwaway/recycled dog and teaches him a game much bigger than fetch. They now walk the streets of their village looking for trash left along walkways and in parks. Max retrieves it and returns to Sanderson with the trash for recycling. Max himself, has become very capable of putting the trash into garbage receptacles!

Now, through his unique skills he draws attention to the plight of millions of homeless animals.

Love dogs and hate litter? Max A Pooch needs our help to get to the top of the charts as the Emerging Hero Dog in the 2012 Hero Dog Awards. The American Humane Association, creator of the the Hero Dog Awards states the awards ‘were created in 2010 to celebrate the powerful relationships between dogs and people, to serve as a catalyst to advance society’s understanding of the human-animal bond.’

The dog is on a mission: Max A Pooch the throwaway dog asks, ‘How great can a nation be that throws away and kills millions of dogs, cats and other pets each year with no more remorse than if they are inanimate pieces of litter?’
If you agree with him, please bookmark and vote daily for Max A Pooch every day through June 30, 2012. This exposure will greatly enhance his efforts to bring attention to the millions of pets thrown away each year as if they were pieces of litter.

Will you help us help Max?
We are all in this together.

Your friend,
Fisher

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What’s in your toy box

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Fisher

Dear Fisher,

I‘m really in the doghouse now! We had the grandchild and his parents visit us for four days. Every waking hour the 2-year old kid was getting into my toys. And then, one by one they were all disappearing from my toy box. What the heck?

The kid’s parents were taking my toys away from the kid and hiding them. I was not happy. At all. So, when no one was looking, I snatched the kid’s teddy bear and I hid it. You have never heard such a ruckus. At least I didn’t whine and cry all day when he took my toys.

Of course, I was the only suspect. Everyone looked at me and then looked for the bear, which they found, behind the washer machine. No one even thought that maybe the kid did it. I must have just looked so guilty. Now they are all mad at me. What’s a dog to do?

Franklin

Dear Franklin,

Half of the road to redemption lies in the fact that you are taking responsibility for your actions and owning up to it. A dog of less character may have already mastered the look of no guilt. The good news is, the next time they come to visit, the child will be older and possibly more responsible for his own actions.

On another note, dog toys and kid toys are not the same. Kid toys with ribbons or strings, a squeaker or plastic eyes could cause grave indigestion if you should choose to swallow any of the pieces. Stuffing is not compatible with your digestive tract either. It is good you chose to hide the bear rather than tear it apart.

The parents involved in this incident might review information on toy safety from the Humane Society of the United States. On the next visit, your parents can help keep your toys safe from the child, and the child’s parent can help keep the child’s toys safe from you. It is all about boundaries.
Accept the human’s supervision and you will keep out of the doghouse.

Your friend,
Fisher

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The cat speaks

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Fisher

Henri 2, Paw de Deux

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Cat lovers weigh in

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Fisher

Dear Friends,
I received a memo telling me that the Meow Mix people are putting the singing Meow
Cats back into their advertising. We got pretty excited over here because the Meow Mix
commercial of long ago prompted my staff person’s baby boy to speak his first words: ‘Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow’ – seriously! How cool is that for a mom who loves cats.

The nice woman also offered a sample of the new Meow Mix Tender Centers™ cat food and we said we would love one. We had a very special little kitty in mind to try the new food.

In office, in charge, get me food I like.

The man at our house works at a golf course and he works with some other men to make sure the course is neat and tidy for the golfers. I will not pretend that I know much about that, but I do know the men take care of a cat who took up residence in their office area. They call the kitty Heycritter.

Heycritter wants some different food.


Heycritter is spayed and has a vet if she needs one. She is a little thing, but several years old. She is very picky about food. Sometimes they worry she is not eating at all. They have tried ‘everything’. She would look at her full food bowl and me-yowl for something different. Nothing seemed to work for her and she was getting very thin.

Tummy full. Oh boy, I'm helping!


I am happy to report she loves the new Meow Mix Tender Centers™ cat food and she is putting on some weight. All the men are happy because there is peace at the golf course and Heycritter is happy because she does not have to go on dangerous hunting adventures.

Here are some fun things to know. To celebrate their new product, Meow Mix commissioned a survey that reveals the tender centers of cat lovers nationwide:
• One third feel they communicate better with their cat than their significant other
• 97 percent feel they can easily decipher at least one mood or state of mind from their cats behavior
• 82 percent feel they could identify their own cat’s “meow” among many others making the same noise

What’s in your food bowl?

Your friend,
Fisher

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Job opening: Easter kitty needed

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Fisher

‘nuf said.

Have a happy day!

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Cat collar chaos

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Fisher

Dear Friends,

We have had a time with Scooter! We moved into our new apartment (no yard) and out of the house (yard), and staff was worried Scooter would scoot out the door and get into trouble.

One day when staff was emailing back and forth with her cool crafter friend, the idea of trading products came up. My staff loved the idea and they set out to make it happen. She chose a perfect collar for Scooter.

Isn't this adorable?


Scooter, however, was not convinced. When my staff put the collar on her, she went silly nuts. She ran into the bedroom and hunkered down in a closet. She was overwhelmed. To all of us, it is such a sweet collar, beautifully crafted with a small bell. To Scooter it was a ball and chain around her neck and she just did not want to deal with it at all.

Timeline:
• She rushed to a bedroom closet as fast as a cat can run with her belly almost touching the floor
• Came out of closet in the evening, rushed to staff person on the couch and burrowed under her arms
• Spent Saturday night in closet with the door open
• Sunday morning when peeps returned from errands, Scooter was missing!
• Found under a heap of covers on the bed, just before emergency outdoor search
• Would NOT come out and stayed until after evening dinner guests left the premises
• Had a few bites of food and water and retreated to her “modified hiding place”.

Hiding in moderation


Finally, a viable explanation to her behavior – she was embarrassed! As the man of the house explained it, she was acting like a teenage girl who had a pimple on her nose and refused to leave her bedroom!

The very thought of her feeling embarrassed was so descriptive of her behavior it made us all laugh. Scooter’s greatest contribution to the household is that she is our comedy cat, and she does make us laugh a lot.

Our comedy cat


She is a lot better now, fully recovered and moving around normally – and still entertaining!

Your friend,
Fisher

P.S. Please visit Sleepy Cat Designs to view all sorts of wonderful hand-crafted kitty items!

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