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New favorite Pet Store: Cherrybrook

Jenny — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:39:16 +0000

So what’s the first thing you do after you move? You find the nearest pet supplies store! I stopped by Cherrybrook and it was pretty awesome. I used to have to head down to Princeton for quality dog food but no more! This one is about 10 minutes away from my apartment. On top of having bully sticks, they stock up on Orijin and premade raw food. Now I have absolutely no reason to try out raw. So I did :)

I bought a package of Nature’s Variety, Chicken & Turkey premade raw and going to try it starting tomorrow. I would’ve started it today but it has to be defrosted overnight.

I also got Pong Pong some Big Boyz Sweet Potato Dog Chewz (Sam’s Yams) and she LOVES them. I’ve even gotten her doing tricks for it!

In totally I spent around 50 bucks for Raw Chicken & Turkey Medallions (3lb), Yams Dog Chews, five 6’’ bully sticks, and one Busy Buddy Tug a Jug. The Busy Buddy is for morning kibbles so she’ll at least be entertained for a good 15 minutes after I leave for work.

Overall, good trip with the exception I almost got lost getting there. Yes, i know, it’s a very common occurrence..

Here we go again!

Jenny — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:11:52 +0000

It is the beginning of the year once again. So what do we do at the beginning of every year?

Start exercising!

I know, it sounds crazy but I am going to try and stick with it this time. Pong Pong has also put on some winter weight so both of us are going to work out together.

I am currently using various exercises to keep it ‘fresh’. I’m not really a fan of going to the gym and running on a treadmill like a mouse with its wheel. But, if it’s going to add variety into routine, so be it. Besides, I already promise a certain shortness (aka Kay) I would. So along with going to the gym (once a week), I will be walking Pongy at least once a day 40-50 minutes at a time (don’t worry, my dad walks her every 3 hours so she gets plenty of exercise. She just chooses to eat more to compensate :P).

To keep track of our walks, I installed this app on my phone: RunKeeper.com. It uses the GPS on my iPhone 3Gs and keeps track of the walks. The app can time my walk, show exactly where I went, and how many calories I burn. It also allows you to play music AT THE SAME TIME! If you are an iPhone user, you know how significant running multiple apps is.

Here’s today’s walk:

Duration: 0:40:35

Distance: 1.68 mi

Avg. Pace: 24:12 per mi

Burned: 160 calories

I blame the slowness on a certain dog who insist on sniffing everything.

It’s pretty nifty but I wish there was more options in filtering. Perhaps I need to accumulate more walks to see more features.. lol. I’ll be updating weekly on my progress with RunsKeeper!

Another thing I will be doing while the Chunky (new nickename for Pongy) watch and laugh is exercises on my exercise ball. I know, it’s nuts exercising with something that’s named after the activity!

Also, I got the Wii Fit Plus on recommendation of my co-worker and it’s pretty fun. I gotta admit I was one of the few that thought it was pretty silly that someone would want to exercise INDOORS and on a video game system no less. But those nintendo people know what they are doing! The Wii Fit also has a “Pet Stats” feature where you can weigh your dog! Pong Pong unfortunately is at 31 pounds….

I think when she was 26-7 lbs she looked the best and was the most healthy. I am going to try to get her back to that point hopefully by May and before the summer heat.

So our goal by May 1st: Pong Pong go down to 27 pounds (about 4 lbs need to disappear!) and I lose 10 pounds. Totally doable.. I think. I am sure sharing this with the interwebs will either embarrass me into actually following through or I will never post again out of shame.

Either or works for me :D

‘So where did you get your dogs?’

Gated!

Jenny — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:43:32 +0000

We recently got two gates to uhm, make the house a safer place for dogs. Yes… not because they are in our faces while we eat or destroy stuff when we’re not home… no.

They are working out pretty well and are very solid. These are the ones we got: Summer Infant Decor Extra Tall Gates though I definitely did not pay that price!

I can mount them so I don’t ruin the walls and they came with a small extension or a large extension so it’ll fit your hallway pretty well. In the picture, we attached a small extension.

Pretty nifty and keeps the dogs in their designated spots! They haven’t really attempt a breakout yet so we’ll see how it holds up :)

busy buddy twist ‘n treat Toy Review

Take a Guess!

Jenny — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:24:24 +0000

I’ll let ya guess what’s going on in this picture..

Gi totally did not put a scarf on Magnate. He put it on himself! Pinky swear? He’s going to part of Jon’s line of dog clothing: Shinu.

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busy buddy twist ‘n treat Toy Review

Jenny — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:14:43 +0000

busy buddy Toy

So there was an amazon deal where I can get 4 toys for 30ish bucks. Oh what the hell right? I need something to entertain the kids when we are not here. They arrived a week later and it’s pretty cool. Today I will be reviewing the busy buddy twist ‘n treat toy. I’m sure you can probably get it at your local pet store, but if you can’t, Amazon carries it. My dogs were super duper excited (or maybe it was just Jada) and Pong immediately took ownership and started playing with it.

I bought these toys thinking it would be a great mind distractor while me and Jon are at work. However, as you can see in the video, it is definitely not a good idea to leave this toy with the girls alone.

I do apologize for the crappy quality of my video and picture this time around. My camera battery died and I had to resort to the IPhone.