My first attempt at a shaped fruit bowl

My best friend is having a baby boy and I helped host her baby shower as well as I made all the food.
I found a picture online for a baby buggy fruit basket and new I just had to try it!

It turned out okay, let me tell you it messy, but I found it easy other than I was not quite strong enough to cut the watermelon straight. It was so much fun to do and everyone loved it!!

I got the idea and instructions from http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Watermelon-Baby-Carriage

Casi Foster dog #15

Casi is a now 11 week old Akita/Sheapard puppy. She is a sweet girl with is full of love! We are working on house training and recall, as well as basic commands and learning how to use her mouth properly.  She weighs 19LBS and is super smart. She wakes up once in the night to go out and go to the bathroom. She is crate trained at night and when I am not home. She does okay in the crate. Her and her brother Bossco are learning to go into their crate with treats. They are crated together.

Casi was wavy hair on her ears. She is mostly black with white on her paws! She is learning how to give kisses :). She plays well with the big dogs and loves rawhide and shoes lol.She has his first set of shots and will be going for his booster soon. Casi is starting to find his wonderful voice and will bark at the other dogs to play. 

Bossoc Foster Dog #14

Bossco is a now 10 week old Akita/Sheapard puppy. He is a sweet boy with is full of love! We are working on house training and recall, as well as basic commands. He weighs 15LBS and is super smart. My mom has fallen in love with and wants to adopt him. We are doing slow introductions with her personal dogs and working on some issues her personal dog has. Hopefully once all is done he will be a great fir for her home. He wakes up twice in the night to go out and go to the bathroom. He is crate trained at night and when I am not home. He hates being in the dark so a light has to be left on. He has some crate anxiety and freaks out when put in it and I am not in the room. He is being crated with his sister at this point!

Bossco has the bear look of the Akita. He is mostly black with Brown front feet! He is my cuddle bear. He plays well with the big dogs and loves rawhide. He has his first set of shots and will be going for his booster next week. Bossco is starting to find his wonderful voice and he ears are slowly starting to become straight up!

Baby Hats for Sarnia Hospital

I just finished 100 crocheted baby hats for the Sarnia Maternity ward. I decided to do this when I had my son because his head was very large they had a heck of a time trying to find a hat that would fit his head. So I decided that I needed to do something about that. Within the 100 hats I have crocheted there are Preemie, normal sized and then large ones lol that would have fit my sons head. Our hospital is always in need of things for new moms so I figured this would help. When I was in the hospital I had bought new born diapers (how silly was that lol) they were way too small for him so I donated them along with the formula I had brought with me. The nurse when came and picked them up from my room was so grateful she had tears in her eyes. She said she would make sure the items got to someone who needed them. I truly hope that those items helped someone else.

I got to about 90 hats and I ran out of scrap yarn so I posted on a facebook site called mommy market and asked if anyone has scrap yarn or odd balls that I could buy for these baby hats. Two women stepped forward and "donated" two large bags of odd yarn. I am so grateful to these women for helping me reach my goal. I plan to do 100 baby hats for the London hospital as well. Each year I will give each hospital 100 hats to keep their supply up!

Hats for the hospital

Annie Foster Dog Number 13

I know I said I would never foster another lab after Dexter lol but when a dog is in need I can not close my doors and my heart to them.
This is Annie she is from the Wallaceburg Shelter Annie was found wandering through the Wallaceburg cemetery alone, lost and scare. She is between 1-2 years old. She is a sweet pea. I picked Annie up from the Shelter on July 24, 2012. They thought she might be pregnant and that is no place for a mom or babies to be. I offered to foster her until all the pups and herself was adopted. When I took her to my vet he did an ultra sound. She is not pregnant which is wonderful news! She is what is called sudo pregnant her hormones are telling her that she is. When I picked her up from the shelter it took about 15 mins for my sister and I to get her into the car she was so scared. I introduced her to my personal dogs she is not a fan of my Akita Husky, but he is hyper and just wants to play all the time lol. It took me and my roommate and his 8 year old son 25 mins into get her to come into the house she was so scared. She appears to be house trained, but she needs work on her manners lol which will come with time. She's quite so far.
July 25, 2012 I left the crate set up for her last night with blankets in it. I did not force her to go in when I went to bed I just left it open. She started out on the floor next to me and at 1am she was sleeping in the crate on her own. This morning she is very playful her and Jake are best friends and playing. The crate is her safe spot so I will leave it set up for her. She did not mess in the house once last night!
July 28, 2012 Annie is doing well. She is not eating like she is starving anymore. She finally is playing with my Akita/Husky lol. She hides all the bones in her crate and then buries them so the other dogs can't get them. She loves chewing raw hides and meaty bones; however, she seems to get snarly with my Akita/husky when he goes near her if she has one, but allows the rotti/st.Bearnard to just take it and walk away. She is learning her place in the "pack" and is starting to sit for pets instead of jumping up and down all over you. She knows Sit now and we are working on laying down. She has a bit of separation anxiety, I tired to crate her when I left for an hour and when I came home the crate was on the other side of the room and the door all bent open. When left out of the crate she gets into things she shouldn't but it will take time to work on that.

Annie is looking for a loving patient forever home and I truly hope she finds her right match, until then we are going to work on manners and commands. She is smart and a fast learner.

Jagger Foster Dog # 12

Jagger is a 1-2 year old male Akita/Chow/mix. He is nudered. Jagger was found on the side of Courtright Line between Alvingston and Glenco about 4 weeks ago. A family took him in and tried to find his family for 3 weeks. The women ended up losing her job and was unable to keep him so she contacted Michelle at MOTS to see if she had room for him. I went and picked him up near Glenco, he could do to add a few pounds, but he was a happy lovey boy. He did awesome in the car on the way home. I introduced him to my dogs and they got along okay. He was not a fan of Jake, but they got along. Jagger, like most strays/abused animals had resource guarding with food, treats, and even people. He ate like he was starving. He is a fast learner and house trained for the most part. He has really bad separation anxiety. Saturday morning when I woke up there was little white worms coming out of him bum poor dude. I got him into my vet right away and got him treated. He did very well at the vets office lol other than he wouldn't walk in the door because there was a cat sitting there lol. Then he got attacked by another cat there because the cat didn't want his bum sniffed lol. He is a good walker and is higher energy so needs at least one daily walk. He knows sit and shake a paw. He is very pack orientated. Monday morning Michelle decided that she wanted to take Jagger to her house to continue his fostering, so I will post once he has been adopted, but he is no longer my foster baby.

Abandoned dog: Owners found

Photo was taken four hours after his rescue.

I do not like this one bit, and neither would you if you read his story and met him. Chevy is his name, I got three different stories from the owners. I got accused of stealing their dog; which I didn't do, I rescued a dog that was abandoned on the side of the road and attempted to find the owners. I am disappointed to say that because the way our laws state I have to take the dog to the "rightful" owners because he was claimed within the 72 hour window. All I can do is submit an abuse report with the OSPCA and Sarnia Police. I can encourage them to put a collar on him, and take him to the vet. So this afternoon after they prove to me he is their dog Chevy will be heading home. I got a story from the grandmother that called me, then a story from the 15 year old son who called me and two different stories from the mother who called me. This dog deserves a loving caring home and proper vetting care. Their main concern was how much it was going to cost them to get their dog back, no loving owner puts how much it costs to bring their lost pet home first, they didn't even ask how he was or if he was okay. I know in the rescue world we see things on a daily basis that we can not control and we can only save so many, but it breaks my heart to know that he was safe and now has to be taken back to his owners.