Hoppy Easter Bo

Hoppy Easter…from Bo… and the President and the Easter Bunny…and others…

Happy Spring…

and Easter and Passover…

from the adorable Bo Obama…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/08/bo-obama-easter-bunny-photo_n_1410976.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

from Andy Borowitz…

Religions in Summary: Jews hide bread, Christians hide eggs, and Mormons hide a dog on top of their car…

GOP hide their womb envy in hundreds of bills against birth control and abortion and health care for women and pretend they are not waging a war against women…

 

did you watch to kill a mockingbird on TV?  if so, what did you think? relevant?

Atticus’ lesson to Scout that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it”

“it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. mockingbirds never harm other living creatures.  “They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.”

how are you celebrating?

Easter sweet surprise giveaway

In her Easter bonnet, no, Cici will not appear in a hat…

and no we are NOT giving away Easter bunnies… hop hop hop…

Every once in awhile us pet parents have to indulge in a sweet delight just for ourselves, and usually mine is chocolate, something I can eat and Cici cannot… but recently I sampled these amazing sweet treats so what we ARE giving away is a box of …

Zeke’s Butterscotch 

This is the best butterscotch I’ve ever eaten. Tastes fresh, rich and is simply addicting. NOT for dogs.  Humans only. Melts in your mouth delicious.

To be eligible for the box of homemade vintage butterscotch, participants must “Like” the Zeke’s Facebook fan page and Tweet the following to Zeke’s Twitter page: “What’s your best memory with butterscotch?” Leave a comment here and/or like the Have Dog Blog will Travel Facebook page, too to keep us in the loop.

Contest ends April 18 at midnight PST. You’ve got just Eight more days to enter and win.  (Yes, we just extended the date) … And if you make us laugh, with a photo of your pet in rabbit ears, (optional) you may just get an extra special pet treat, too. 

So hop hop hop over and you just may win this yummy sweet surprise…

For me, my memories of butterscotch are of the hard candy kind. My dad had a store in Manhattan near to Chinatown. And on special occasions, we would visit the Lower East Side for candy. There were all kinds of goodies… shoe leather (apricot delight), licorice ropes in various flavors, fruity filled hard candies and butterscotch. The candy store near our home where I usually bought my candy held treasures such as MaryJane’s, Clark bars or anything sweet and salty combined with butter, chocolate and/or peanut butter, made me happy. But the more exotic types of candy obtained in NYC were a rare treat for us kid candy connoisseurs.

My grandmother‘s pocketbook was also a great resource for candy. It was usually filled with delights such as peppermint Chiclets gum and butterscotch candies, too. I loved to dig through her purse (how rude, huh) and find something sweet and delicious. It was one of our rituals. Whatever I found, I could eat. Hey, I was 10 and younger. I lived for stuff like that.

About Zeke’s

The Zeke butterscotch candy gets its unique flavor from the ingredients from a recipe from Zeke’s mother, Old Wuss as she was called, who found it in a cookbook that was published in Chicago around 1860, way before imitation flavors were invented.   REAL butterscotch is made with real ingredients.  The main ingredients are Hawaiian pure cane sugar, butter, Grade AA Creamery Butter and lots of it and unsulphered molasses which gives Zeke’s Butterscotch its deep, rich flavor.  The apple cider vinegar in the candy creates a chemical reaction that softens the butterscotch when it is warmed – as in your mouth, and that’s when you’ll start drooling.  It has a very juicy, buttery flavor.  Two more minor but very important ingredients are water (pure and natural) and salt.

Zeke’s Candy Company, formerly Cotton’s Candy Kitchen Co., is owned and operated by Sheila and Jeff Cotton in Cedarville, Ca. and has been in operation since 1988. The two married candy connoisseurs love making vintage candy butterscotch.

Blog Hop time…  thanks to Life with Dogs,Two Little Cavaliers and Confessions of the Plume…  grab the blog hop code…

social butterfly dogs

1. Bernese Mountain Dog
2. Briard
3. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
4. Cockapoo (Cockapoodle)
5. Coton de Tulear
6. Goldador
7. Golden Retriever
8. Goldendoodle
9. Harrier
10. Havanese
11. Irish Setter
12. Labradoodle
13. Labrador Retriever
14. Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen
15. Puggle

According to Rachael Ray’s pet blog, the above are the dog friendliest dogs… is your dog the social butterfly of dogs, very friendly to other dogs?  is it one of the above or another breed?  Do dogs of a feather stick together?

Cici has played with more than 600 dogs of all kinds of breeds … her favs tend to be Golden retrievers, labs, German Shepherds, Boxers, Labradoodles, Australian Shepherd, Border Collies (BIG dogs) AND she has best lil pals too, mini poodles, tiny terriers, and other breeds.   She has issues with bull dogs of all types for some reason. She used to have issues with other pit bull terriers but has had a few pit bull puppy friends, too.  Depends upon the individual dogs.

http://blog.rachaelray.com/index.php/2011/03/10/dog-friendly-dogs/

plus, she has met/sniffed/chased or stalked bees, birds, bugs, bunny rabbits, cats, chickens, chipmunks, cows, deer, ducks, elk, fish, geese, goats, horses, lizards, llamas, peacocks, sheep, skunks, squirrels, wild turkeys, yaks, and zebras…

and she LOVES kids… the other day she played with a bunch of kids at the neighborhood park playground, licking them, showing off her belly, the kids were on the swings, she was a bit leery of the swings, but she ran and chased and raced with the girls and they enjoyed playing with her.  She wanted to stay and play all day.

what other farm animals or other pets does your dog play with?

Today is saturday, sheeeesh, where does the weeks go?  So fast. Maybe it’s the rain which is pouring again. And of course, Japan, do not pass by this blog without checking out what you can do for Japan (last blog post). Do not pass go, do not collect $200…

Anyway, since it is Saturday, Pet Blogger’s Hop, jump aboard another Blog Hop and thanks to Life with Dogs, here is the code…

enter at your own risk of having FUN…

 

As you hop around, don’t forget to stop by the first three entries on the list, our hosts: Confessions of the Plume, Two Little Cavaliers and Life with Dogs.

uncommon cures for the common dog (problems)…

ok, I admit it, I am not always a great dog mom, sometimes my dog drives me completely out of my mind… and yesterday was one of those days… and I LOVE my dog and would NEVER EVER HURT HER, but you know dogs are not perfect little furry creatures (similar to kids) so how about a contest, send me your most creative (without being mean) solutions that have worked with your dog… and you will win a Free Giveaway Package from our friends over at Doggytug.com … the best dog tug toys in creation !

l. People, my dog is NOT a big barker, although she has been becoming more vocal. But yesterday at the park, she saw a critter/creature (it looked like a big rat to me, but maybe was a squirrel) and she was barking and barking until I could not take it any longer. Some folks have suggested using a squirt gun or water bottle to spray water on her but I had none, so I just poured water on her head (it was a hot day in the sun anyway) and you know what, it worked…

2. A variation on the same theme, she was wanting to chase bunny rabbits and going nuts on me last night and almost tore my arm out of its socket while we were walking so temporarily I tied her to the nearest tree and asked for help at the mall, but no one would assist me. I had no water squirter, so I eventually untied her, and found a shopping cart and tied her to that and got her back to the car. Whew and Sheeeesh !

Now she has her cute moments, too… like being the official licker/greeter and feet washer/slobberer over at our good friends Lowe’s and Best Buy and every place at the mall … recent comments, “oh, your dog is soooo cute!” “can I pet your dog?” “I love her markings, is she a puppy?” “Does your dog have babies and can I have one?” “I’m going to call her the Nibbler” “She licked me!”

Come on, people, fess up and win !!!

and this is a hysterically funny Letter to My Dog… to go with today’s theme… (bad dog)… my bad…

http://petloverstips.com/Dog_Humor/An_Open_Letter_to_My_Dog_(The_Bad_One).html

Here is Kelly Ann Stafford speaking about the Doggy tugs…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7EqqlMih8

and a great article about How to play tug of war with your furry friend…

http://doggytug.com/WholeDog.html