Archive for December, 2008

Dec
27

What’s in Your Dogs Food?

Posted by: Debbie | Comments (1)

I have been an avid pet person for a long time. Throughout the years I have raised rabbits, ferrets, took care of rescue cats and shared my life with German Shepherds for the last 20 years.

I have always researched and read the lables on the bags and cans of pet food. They make it sound good in their advertizing and marketing, BUT what is really in your pets food. I have fed my german shepherds a good quality dog kibble and mixed it with a can of moist dog food. 

One of my shepherds has been a picky eater and then one day he stopped wanting to eat his food, so did my other GSD. I tried changing the dry food and kept the moist canned meat. I still had problems.  So I furthered my research and joined a couple of online dog groups to see what they were feeding. Some of the topics covered were diets of RAW food. I myself could not do a raw food diet. So I began cooking food that I could mix in with their dry kibble. I broil some chicken legs and sometimes beef. I remove the meat and then add a couple garlic cloves, oatmeal, brown rice, tomatoes, frozen vegteables, flax seed, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas and just let it all simmer together in the meat broth. I then remove the meat from the cooked chicken and stir that in. I scoop this mixture into serving size containers and freeze it. At feeding time I warm up the food in the micowave and mix into the dry kibble with warm water. I have been doing this for 8 months. Today my dogs will dance for their food and clean up their bowls within 10 minuets. No more fussing eating. Their coats shine and have a good feel with softness.

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Dec
26

What is the purpose of a business?

Posted by: Debbie | Comments (0)

The other day I signed up with some business sites I found through my Linkedin account. Today I was browsing the emails that arrived in my inbox and following the links. I followed some links to a website address of http://www.chainetwork.net  There were some videos that caught my interest. I clicked on the one called Lesson 01 Web Life. I was watching the gentelman talk and as he got more into his subject he referenced a book call the Essential Drucker. In reading a page from this book “He asked…What is the purpose of a business”. Some would say to make money. The correct answer is to create a customer. I found this very interestng. It made me stop and think on how to market my business this coming 2009. Instead of thinking of ways to make money think of ways to create new customers. When you provide a service a customer can use you get new customers, they are the ones who will grow your business and help it to profit. 

Another topic he mentioned was “SWOT” which means to evaluate the “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats” of a business. Think I will go do some research on SWOT for the businesses that provide the same service I do.

If you would like to watch the video I have included it below.

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Dec
20

German Shepherd Dogs

Posted by: Debbie | Comments (1)

German Shepherds have been a favorite breed of mine for the last 20 years. I’m currently working with my 9th GSD who is 6 months.  My first German Shepherd was a stray that appeard in my yard and stayed with me for 6 years. From that time since I have been in love with this breed. They can always stop me in my tracks when I see a good looking GSD.

Today I currently have 3 beautiful German Shepherds. There is Sam a 3 1/2 year bi-color, Zoey a Sable-bi color who is a rescue that is 10 years old and Jerry Lee that is the standard black and tan who is 6 months and weighed in at 81 pounds on his vet trip for a rabies shot a few days ago.

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