Adventures with Astrid: Chicken Bloopers and Two-Headed Dogs

Today's photo is a blooper. Pup Astrid is indeed blurry in it, probably because she was quite excited. After all, she'd just smelled a whole platter of chicken randomly sitting in someone's front yard.

Astrid is a chicken fiend. It's one of her all-time favorite foods, and I regularly give her treats of plain, cooked chicken breast. What she smelled on her walk this day, though, was a bunch of fried chicken just sitting under a tree in the neighborhood. It was early morning, and no one was in sight. The chicken just sat there, out in the open, for a reason I do not know. I did not let Astrid have it, and she was devastated. Don't worry, though, because I gave her some of her beloved chicken breast when we got home.

Pup Astrid hopes you all get to enjoy far more chicken than she got to on this abusive day!

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Doodle of the Day

As I've mentioned over the past couple of days, I've been scribbling up some fan art for a series of sci-fi/fantasy books I really enjoyed reading recently. These doodles star my furbabies, of course. Today, we have for you a version of the two-headed puppy that was in one of the books, but of course in the form of two-headed Astrid.

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Tip of the Day

Today's summer safety tip is all about how to keep your furbaby cool if they are outdoors in the heat. To begin, as we mentioned yesterday, sometimes the great outdoors is a very dangerous place to be for a pup or dog in the extreme heat of summer. For this reason, please do try to limit time spent outdoors in the heat.

However, if your pup or kitty has to be outdoors for any reason, be sure that they are provided with everything to help them stay as cool as possible. For example, be sure that a sufficient amount of cool, fresh, clean water is available for them to drink. Also ensure that they have somewhere in the shade to stay. A potentially stifling outdoor enclosure, such as a shed, will often be no cooler than the sun. But, shade from trees or a building can enable a furbaby to get out of the sun and stay as cool as possible. For those furbabies who enjoy and take advantage of water, you can also put out a children's pool, with cool, clean water. This way, a pup or even a kitty who likes water can have another way to cool off.

As we said previously, please do all that you can to keep your pup or kitty out of the heat of summer. If a trip outdoors is necessary for any reason, though, then it is important to know how to keep your furbaby cool and safe, such as by means of water and shade. Summertime is just another example of how you must think and plan ahead for the sake of your furbaby's health and happiness.