With little effort and patience on your part, your owner can be trained to give you treats whenever you want. Here are five surefire methods for getting the goods.

1. FETCH
Don’t ask me why, but owners like to throw things. Even more cunfusing; The things they throw they actually want back. If you’re lucky enough to be around when they throw something be sure to bring it back. Chances are you’re in for a treat.

2. Put’er There
If you let them shake your paw, they give you a treat. All I can say is owners are easily amused.

3. Sit, Stay
For some reason, owners seem to like it when we sit and don’t move. Sit on my butt and chill for a treat? Count me in.

4. Welcome Home
When your owner comes home, act like you’re ecstatic to see them. Hop, scamper, turn circles. Do whatever it takes to get them to think you think it’s been ten years since you’ve seen them – even if they just stepped out to get the mail.

5. Down Boy
What’s better? Jumping on a visitor or not jumping and getting a treat? Tough call, for sure. But I’ll take the treat.

There are some other really good chapters in this book so be watching for more from “Real Dogs Eat Meat”

Fostering dogs is such a fun and rewarding experience. Fostering is a lot like mountain climbing. Everyone agrees it is a noble pursuit, just not something to consider doing themselves. They think surely it must take someone very strong and courageous. That couldn’t be further from the truth. If you can provide a warm loving home, a comfy place for them to lay their head and food and water you can be a foster parent.

Foster homes are the backbone of any rescue organization. Everyday 1000′s of dogs are put to sleep because the shelters are too full. These dogs are not just the older dogs or the ones who are very sick. 100′s of puppies are put to sleep everyday.

Perfectly good dogs are dumped at the pound not because they are bad or dangerous but because……

• I can’t afford it anymore
• We are moving
• We are having a baby
• I just don’t want it

What Are The Benefits Of Fostering A Dog

1. Gives you a sense of purpose
2. Great way for you to maybe find that furever friend you have been thinking about
3. Great way to learn about different breeds
4. Teaches children about service and respect for all living things

What Is Required To Foster A Dog

1. Plan to keep your foster indefinitely. Sometimes they are placed quickly. Other times it may take many months
2. Provide a good home. *Safe, *Comfortable, *Healthy Environment, *Plan on your foster being kept inside.
3. Work with the rescue for medical treatment. *Most rescues will cover medical treatment during fostering
4. Treat the foster as if it were your own. This helps them to learn good manners and gets them used to living with a family (So often fosters come from homes where they have been chained outside away from human contact)
5. Never hand over your foster to someone. All adoptions are done through the rescue.

Remember, there is NEVER enough room in the shelters and every day dogs are loosing their lives. The more foster parents there are. The more lives will be saved

 To get more information or to become a foster parent contact a local rescue. If you are in the Upstate of South Carolina here are a few rescues I recommend

Grey Muzzle

Carolina Basset Hound Rescue 

K95 Rescue

Southern States Mastiff Rescue

Mom always makes bandannas for Baxter and I to wear.

Last night I suggested to her she needed to make a bunch of them and sell them to everyone and give some money to those awesome Bassets so after much discussion we decided 20% will go to CBHR

Here are the ones she has right now

Camo                                                              Stars                                  Tiger Strip

The sizes available are

Small 7″ – 12″

Med 9″-15″

Lrg 12″ -20″ (Patriotic sold out of lrg)

If you want to help out CBHR

Go to moms store and purchase one today hurry before they are all gone

Over the Collars Bandannas 

Bandit’s Casserole

2c Rice

2c Oatmeal

1lb Hamburger

1lb Chicken Livers

1Tbls Garlic Powder

2c Chopped Vegetables

6c Water

1) Mix everything in Crockpot.
2) Cook on high until all the water is gone (About 4hrs)
3) Scoop out 1/2 cup and press into a patty.
4) Makes about 20 patties. Last in freezer for about 1 month.

If you like this one you need to check out the cookbook for more of my favorites.

Bandit Nose All Favorite Recipes

He informed me he liked the ride in the car except for the the big black things that were flapping on the front window of the car.

He said they had really good seats he could see everything, but at times it would get real loud and the men didn’t play nice they would slam each other into the glass, I sure hope he doesn’t get any ideas when we are in the backyard.

But he says one of his favorite parts of the whole night was meeting new friends

I have to admit my favorite part is he gave me the ball he got at the hockey game.

Dogs Deserve Better