Above the Bar Pets Newsletter
We hope that our newsletter will provide you with information that you can find useful. We would like to give our subscribers a chance to “brag” on the successes with their pet, however small. Sometimes the small successes mean the most. We will provide a recipe for pet treats; have a featured item from our online store, news of upcoming events and interesting information for you. If you would like to “brag”, please send your information to us on our contact us page.
Great Recipes for your pet!
Garlic and Parsley Biscuits
2 cups white or whole-wheat flour
1/4 cup corn meal
1 tsp. sugar
1 T. shortening
2 tsp. garlic powder
1 T. parsley flskes
1 cup approx. water
Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add shortening and mix well with a fork. Add enough water (about 1 cup) to make a stiff dough. Roll dough with rolling pin until it is about 1/4 inch thick. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 300 degrees until cookies are hard. Let cool for several hours before storing. These treats are healthy for your dog and they really like them.
Breed Spotlight
Papillon
This dwarf spaniel has a two to three colored coat that is very silky, has erect ears that resemble the spread wings of a butterfly. The name Papillon is the French word for fluttering insect. The Papillon's coat makes this breed for either warm or cold climates. Its small head carries a slightly rounded skull with a distinct stop. The thin, tapering muzzle ends at a small, round, black nose. Ears are set wide and back, drop or erect, always large with rounded tips, and the dark eyes are of medium size, never pop or bulging. Neck has medium length.
The body is a little on the long side, with sloping shoulders, chest of medium depth, and fine-boned forelegs with thin, elongated feet. The topline is level over a good rib cage, strong hindquarters, clear tuck-up, and strong angulation.
The coat is long, silky, straight, and aboundant, with feathering and the hair is short on skull and muzzle. A proper coat carries white with patches of another color or it can be tricolor (white,black or tan). A white blaze is very desirable.
The Papillon should stand 8 to 11 inches and weigh about 10 pounds.
Information is sited from The American Dog Book, by Kurt Unkelbach.
Fun With Your Pet
Training your pet can be fun and very rewarding. A great feeling of pride comes over you your pet is well behaved and can captivate an audience with a few tricks. An added reward for you is the bond that is created by the training - love, understanding and trust.
One simple trick that can get you started is Turn Around.
Start by having your dog stand up facing you. Have a treat in your hand. You stand still and say, "Turn Around". Take the treat and lead the dog in a circle so the dog is turing around in front of you. When the dog has made a complete circle reward the dog with the treat and of course, "GOOD DOG!"
Featured item
We are featuring our treats this summer. Check out all the different treats we have available on our site. They are all very healthy and my dogs LOVE them!
Pet Poetry
A Faithful Dog
A Faithful dog will play with you
And laugh with you -- or cry.
He'll gladly starve to stay with you
Nor ever reason why.
And when you're feeling our of sorts
Somehow he'll understand.
He'll watch you with his shinng eyes
And try to lick your hand.
His blind, implicit faith in you
Is matched by his great love--
The kind that all of us should have
In the Master, up above.
When everything is said and done,
I guess this isn't off...
For when you spell 'Dog ' backwards,
You get the name of God.
author unknown
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