Update on Meg

It is with a heavy heart that I bring you the very sad news that Meg's body has been recovered today.
Yesterday Lisa asked that Meg give a visual on her location via the communicators, the communicator relayed that Meg was in a corner of a sunny field playing with the kittens and Dragonflys.
Earlier that day in a field close to where the communicators had suggested Meg may be located a searcher had commented on the huge Dragonflys that were around, a comment made because in the bitter cold weather they should have been long gone.
So when the reference was made to Meg playing with kittens and dragonflys.. although it was against all the hope those involved in searching for her held, the mood turned from hope of finding Meg alive, to one of a desperate desire to locate Megs body and bring her home, it was clear to those who loved Meg and believed in the communicators that Meg had gone to the bridge.
Sadly, today, Megs communication of her whereabouts was confirmed. She is indeed running free in sunny fields playing with the kittens and dragonflies.

Run free at the bridge sweet Meg, free from pain and safe from harm.

To the countless number of people who gave up their time to search for Meg in truly awful conditions.. you are angels. To those that prayed for her safe return and kept Meg in their hearts THANK YOU. To all at GAP who cherished and loved this little girl and worked so hard to find her our deepest and heartfelt condolences. You showed the true spirit of Dog Rescue.. Meg may have been adopted but she was still YOUR girl, still in your hearts and her welfare and safety was still important. We salute you, you are wonderful.

Calling all bloggers in the SO40 area

Urgent plea to anyone living/working in the SO40 (UK) District of Southampton.

Meg is missing she is microchipped to Greyhound Gap and the name on her chip details is MAGIC. She is a 4 year old black and white greyhound girl and is spayed.

She went missing around 5pm on Friday 24th October in the Ashurst area of the New Forest (UK) on a walk.

Meg is wearing a pink collar material martingale, red muzzle and is tagged.

Please contact Lisa at Greyhound Gap on 01782 544728 or 07917422489.



The rescuers have been working with two independant animal communicators and so far they have both been spot on. The information they are giving now is that her tummy is hurting she is sleeping comatose and her priorities are changing.
If anyone can go and help please please do. Alisa knows the area that needs searching and the postcode to the car park is SO40 7AR. Alisas mobile number is 07961069567

The search will be called off at loss of daylight, but (so far) today has yielded no signs of Meg. If you can assist the search team tomorrow PLEASE PLEASE contact one of the above numbers for instructions and directions.
Meg is muzzled and conditions at nightfall are getting colder day by day.

I will update this post with any further information I get.

For those (like me) who are too far away to help with the search, please keep Meg in your thoughts and prayers, lots of Puppy Zen needed here buddys!

Ben xxxx

LeeLou's Launch Party

My new blog design was created by the very talented LeeLou, she is relaunching and is once again taking orders for customised blog headers and designs, check her out she does some great designs!




Mum didn't get the camera out on Sunday as threatened, it was raining most of the day and all in all miserable out. She did however get some halloween costumes for me.. and she thinks (and I stress the *thinks* here) that she will get me in a few of them later for a photo shoot.. I of course have other ideas!!
The beans are on holiday for a week so we are planning on getting the house decorations up soon too. It's my first Halloween with my family so I am really excited! It seems to be a lot of hard work for Mum though!! I heard the beans say something about treats, I'm always up for anything where treats are involved!!

Sorry we are still not getting to everyones blogs, these beans keep Mum busier than I anticipated!!

Ben xxxx

At Last....

Finally I get to blog!!

Apologies to all for our absence and my haphazard blog visiting this week. Mum has been sick and it was the beans last week at school before they broke up for the week.
Mum is feeling much better now and so has promised me that we can catch up on everyones blogs very soon. She is also threatning to get the camera out tomorrow and take some new pictures of me.. thats fine as long as she is not expecting me to co-operate!
Mum has most of the addresses for the Grand Prize Draw winners and will be making a trip to the Post Office to mail out the prizes next week sometime. She honestly meant to go last week but sickness prevented her from doing pretty much anything but whine about how sick she felt!
So I'll keep this short and sweet for today...don't want to wear the secretary out!

Miss you all, we will be over to see you soon!

Love and Tailwags,

Ben xxxx

Horror-Scopes

I share a star sign with my Mum.. so I thought it would be fun to check out what the starsigns say for an Aquarius Dog!

AQUARIUS

The Aquarius dog can be weird and wacky. His tastes are not always what you might expect of a canine. His interests are as diverse and wonderful as they are offbeat and unusual.
Aquarius dogs are known to 'bite back'. Don't push them too hard, they are well aware of their limits and play is not always on the agenda.

Aquarius dog likes time alone as much as the time they spend with you. Occasionally grumpy and always studying your next move with intent to 'out-think' you. A complex but ultimately lovable character.

hmmm so tell me.. does this sound like me?

so following on from that I decided to check out my horror-scope to see what is in store for me this week ..

Aquarius

Antagonistic neighbours or visitors are so annoying you're propelled to start communicating a bad attitude at the wrong time. Given the choice would you want to fall into an altercation with someone bigger and stronger than yourself? If the answer is no, you're under advisement to appear as respectful as possible when you encounter one. Letting your companions know you're present is one thing, but stepping on their toes is another; restrain yourself and avoid getting a telling off.

none of the neighbourhood furrys are bigger or stronger than me.. so.. I guess thats the green light to go right ahead and steam into that altercation!... If only I wasn't too busy napping!

Goodies Galore

Finally Mum agreed to help me paw the photos and recipes for Saturdays Goodie Fest!

First we made Stinky Salmon Cookies, this is a recipe we snagged from Sherman a while back and they are now a firm favourite in this house.

So first you will need:

1 cup of rolled oats
1 cup of grated cheese
2 eggs
can of salmon with juice
2 shakes of garlic powder

(we doubled up on this recipe because my beans love these too and so we made sure there was plenty stinky goodness to go round)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Cover cookie sheet with foil and spray on a little non-stick spray.

ok.. now dump all the ingredients into a bowl like so..



then give it all a good smooshing around like so...



Once it is well and truly smooshed, dump it all onto your cookie sheet and press flat into a thin layer about 1/4 inch thick, add a little more grated cheese on top if you wish



Now throw it in that oven and wait for 25 horribly long minutes till it is ready.
Once the 25 minutes have crawled by.. remove from oven and cool (yet more horrible waiting) then cut into manly sized chunks like so..



and now for those most important bit.. this bit is crucial..

feed the dog the tasty goodness for approval!




Mmmmm Stinky Salmon Goodness!!

Next we made Milk Biscuits

now for these you will need:

3/4 cup hot water
1/3 cup margarine
1/2 cup powdered milk
1 tsp salt
1 egg (beaten)
3 cups of whole wheat flour

Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Grease a couple of cookie trays

In a large bowl...

pour hot water over margarine
stir in powdered milk, salt and egg
add flour 1/2 cup at a time to form a dough like this..



knead the dough for a few minutes till it is nice and soft then pat or roll out to about 1/2 inch thick.
Cut into shapes (we usually go for bones but went for something different this time) can you guess what shapes we had cut out?



Bake your cookies for 50 (VERY LONG) minutes then turn out and allow to cool and tell your furry friend several times that NO they are not ready yet!

They will dry out quite hard and this recipe makes about 1 and 1/4 lb of cookies!!

batch number 1..



Cookie Mailmen and Turtle!

Why a turtle I hear you cry!!

well actually it was LOTS of Turtles..



and they were in honour of Tadpole and Figs Mom's birthday.. seems she likes the Turtle Creatures!

and don't forget the all important furry friend taste test



Mmmm num num num!!



Oh and this is the Peanut Bread that I got to sample.. smothered in Peanut Butter!! I ate that too fast for photographic example though!!



If you want the recipe for the Peanut Bread or for the Peanut Butter Pops.. (which Mum forgot to photograph!! though they are on my blog elsewhere) then just holler!

Ben xxxx

Ratchet is safe and Thank you for your support.

Thank you to all who signed the petition for Ratchet, he is now en-route to Kuwait and is due in Minnesota later this week, you can read the whole story HERE.

Secondly a huge THANK YOU to all who supported my week long fundraiser for Nowzad Dogs. If you participated by displaying a Nowzad Button or by Donating to Nowzad then please help yourselves to one of the images below, your support and generosity was very much appreciated.





Check out this great opportunity to own this fantastic pastel portrait of Nowzad by Sarah Gough, and a chance of a 2nd place prize of an oil painting portrait of your pet (unframed), that she will paint from photo's you supply.



Tickets are just £1 ($2) each and all the money raised will specifically support the current ongoing rescues of dogs that have adopted Servicemen and women in Afghanistan like ARNHEM.

Competition will close when all 2000 tickets are sold.

Sorry I haven't got around anyones blogs today or posted photos/recipes of my yummys. Mum has been a lazy mare.. I have no other excuse! Still, I guess she is entitled to a day off now and again!

Love and Tailwags,

Ben xxxx