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Category Archives: Animals
Monday’s Melanism
The opposite of albinism called melanism,a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black.
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7.1.12 Peanut Butter Bones
I like to fill the dogs marrow bones with peanut butter in the morning to keep them busy while I am having breakfast. I keep the peanut butter in the refrigerator, so that it is harder, and knife it into both sides of the bone. This keeps them busy for about 10 minutes if I am lucky. I like to watch the creative ways they try to get the peanut butter out of the holes. I have tried many other things in the bones: expensive Kong filler stuff (blah! and not much for the price), Cheese Wiz (to many chemicals and sugar and salt – I realized that I wouldn’t eat it, so why would I give it to them). whipped cream (it disappeared into the air), processed cheese pressed in to the hole (really hard to do and harder for them to get out (actually almost impossible for Sofie)). In the end, there is nothing that replaces good old peanut butter. They sure do enjoy those peanut butter bones.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
6.18.12 It’s for the birds! Revisited
From 2.28.12 It’s for the birds!
Look close in the hole of the nesting box.
Yesterday’s post about the Big Tree made me start to think about spring, which appears to be about a month early here in the Mid-Atlantic. I am happy because walking the dogs is easier, and all my feathered friends start to come back in the yard in full color. We sit for hours watching them come to the feeders and the watering spots. I am amazed that, except when the dogs first come racing out of the house to catch squirrels, the birds just stay where they are and do not mind them. We have some wonderful creatures that bless us every day, We get humming birds, and humming bees, butterflies, moths, and skippers.
Can’t wait until the real spring comes. Thanks to K8 once again for the great pics from last year. Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
DogDaz Zoo 