**Hermes Chat**

[Mindi B]

I just wanted to wish everyone a great weekend. I have been in school almost all day. I went to the pet shop for lunch and they had the cutest birds ever! Lovely colours and they made me so happy that I am hoping the happiness I am sending you will give you the great vibes you need.

And to assure you that I am not working too hard I spent three hours yesterday at a party.


Restricter: I am sorry but they didn't have any. I will try a bigger one on Monday.

You didn't eat AT the pet shop, did you? Snack on a hamster or two? (Kidding, kidding.)

 

[ck21]

Mindi-don't know much abt the high protein debate, but agree with your desire to get away from the corn and by-products.

We went grain free a few years ago and have been pleased with Taste of the wild and honest kitchen. Honest kitchen proclaims to be as close to a raw diet as you can get without actually going raw. It's powdered, just add water. Magic loves it, but I don't make it every day.

 

[Mindi B]

Thanks, ck! Our local humane society, at least, is benefiting from my failed Henry food efforts. Anything I've bought and ended up not feeding him goes to them! Makes me feel a little better about the mistakes. I think my local pet shop carries Taste of the Wild. . . . Just got the EVO, so we'll see how that goes. Hugs to you and Collin, by the way. Is DH feeling any better?

 

[Balto Bag Lady]

My guys eat Science Weight Control. It's Low Fat/ Hi Protein/ Low Carb. It's for Charley, because of his chronic pancreatitis. He has to have as little fat in his diet as possible. We had to wean them off the fish and potato diet they were on because Horatio was allergic to most protein. Anyway, it's all they eat, with the exception of two medium milk bones each when we eat our lunch and a large milk bone after our dinner (when they do a trick.) We are lucky they eat only dog food and don't ask for table food at all.
They keep making the contents of the bags of food lighter and lighter. We've gone from 30 pounds to 27.5 pounds and now we go to the vet twice a month for the food.
I wish they could eat pet store dog food, but this is actually easier and agrees with the two of them.

 

[pug*shoes]

ATG, that rocks! You are so talented!

OMG, you have to see these pics, especially Pugs!

http://www.mizhattan.com/2011/01/happy-weekend.html

Love!

OMG ATG! That's adorable!

Um, when you said tank I thought it was a tank top, not a tank, used in warfare kind of tank. My bad. :shame::shame:

I thought that to! So no shame face

My boys too. They know when I'm getting ready for work and make their way into their crate. Sometimes when I'm still getting dressed, I will see one of them in there already.

I thought it seemed cruel, but they do love it after getting used to it. And they are so much safer.

LOL, ours too, or if we're too loud, they put themselves in their crate

 

[pug*shoes]

For Bmom: Chain maille weave Jens Pind 3 with "flowers" that are kind of like the trinity rings only much smaller. Gives you an idea what a chain would look like with the Cartier Trinity design. I think a cable chain would look good too and would not involve you going blind and insane trying to weave teeny rings

Thin chain about 4mm diameter, using 20g rings; the flowers are 9mm diameter

On my wrist

A much thicker bracelet (6mm diameter) using the same weave but larger and thicker rings (16g); you can see the pattern better

OB, that is gorgeous!

I would have to pull a Pugs and do a one day fly-in and shop marathon...

Oy.

It's totally worth it

I did chain mail for a bit last year because I can do it at home, but my true love is metalsmithing (especially high carat gold think Reinstein/Ross or Slane silver but much more amateurish work). I love firing up that torch. Can't do it much anymore...condo boards and insurance companies frown on having an oxyacetylene torch in the building, and I'm already pushing my luck with three cats over the pet limit!

LOL! OB, you'd have all the chatters as clients if you ever get back into it

Hi everyone,

Got stuck in unexpected meeting vortex yesterday from 10 am till 4 pm (Google Ad Words, Google Analytics, Mobile Media, QR Codes and URL Shorteners and how they interrelate to one and other on an integrated advertising and marketing campaign). My head is spinning. Then I had to get my "actual" work done from 4 to 7 pm. I did do some ketchup last night at the local pub. We have a great one nearby that makes me pretend I am in Ireland. DH and I sat at the bar, ate our dinner and watched the Caps game. It was not good for the home team.

Question for the New York peeps. If I wanted to go to the sale, what's the best way of communicating to my SA that I'd love an invite?

Pugsy, Do you love, the BAG???!!!

EB! I do, but between work (not the work I could carry the bag to) and rain, she's sleeping :shame:

Had to cancel the trip to H today. DH is still not 100% and the drive is long and there is always traffic and I just don't drive anymore. I wanted to pick up the lock that I left off that some jeweler charged an arm and a leg to pick. It was so much that the manager of the store felt guilty asking me to pay for the whole thing. I'll pay half. I have to leave off the new (1975 brown box kelly for an estimate from Claude.) And, I wanted to see what additional GMs arrived and pochettes. But, they will keep piling up the silk and cashmere for me.
OB, you little silversmith you! That chain is gorgeous. Do you make the links, or do you get them already done and put them together. I tried making the links myself, but I like banging on soft silver until it's nearly dead and wrapping it around stones.
I may just have to get me to a beading show tomorrow -- if DH is up to it. I'll get some silver there. It's near my cousin and I have to give her something before she leaves on a cruise.

Hope your DH is feeling better BBL!

 

[pug*shoes]

Does anyone else get bored/housebound/crazy this time of year? It's too cold to spend any real time outside, the sales are pretty much over, the spring stuff's not in yet, blah.

Yup. But mine is the drizzle. It's not really rain, not really dry. Just constant drizzle. Bah.

Jules, so glad your DS had fun at the dance!

Restricter, hope you're feeling better

Purse!

 

[pug*shoes]

Oh, and Mindi, the puglets loved Evo fwiw

 

[pug*shoes]

Ok, SO just called, have to run. Hope everyone's having a wonderful weekend!

 

[ouija board]

Mindi, I don't have anything against a high protein low grain diet, but just remember, with high animal protein comes high fat content. That's why foods like I/d, designed to be low fat, have to use grains or meat by products (cartilage, organs, etc) to get adequate protein without exceeding the maximum fat levels. I'm sure the vast majority of healthy dogs on EVO do just fine, and probably have a gorgeous shiny coat, but you do have to be careful about transitioning to that diet from i/d and of how much you feed, just because of the fat. The other concern would be whether he will tolerate this diet with whatever GI issues he was having.

 

[ouija board]

Thanks, ck! Our local humane society, at least, is benefiting from my failed Henry food efforts. Anything I've bought and ended up not feeding him goes to them! Makes me feel a little better about the mistakes. I think my local pet shop carries Taste of the Wild. . . . Just got the EVO, so we'll see how that goes. Hugs to you and Collin, by the way. Is DH feeling any better?

Just go really slow in transitioning to the EVO, like maybe over 3-4 weeks rather than 1-2. And you are not making mistakes, it's called doing food trials over and over

 

[Brennamom]

 

[Mindi B]

Thank you, OB! The EVO has 22% fat, versus about 14% in the other foods I've been using or looking at. Would you be worried about pancreatitis at that percentage? Or does that just depend on quantity fed?

 

[Mindi B]

What did you do, B-Mom, you naughty girl? Or rather, what did you BUY?!

 

[Brennamom]

What did you do, B-Mom, you naughty girl? Or rather, what did you BUY?!

Oh, well, you know....um...