Pet Safety For the Holidays

Aloha and Happy Holidays!   We enjoy the holiday season along with our four legged children, our cats and our dogs. I would like to give you some tips on making sure your holidays stay happy by bringing to your attention some facts about the season!

Poinsettias, mistletoe, and holly are among the most dangerous and your pet could experience kidney failure if he or she eats any part of a lily. Keep the out of reach! Taking care of our pets is pretty much like having a toddler in the home. You need to “child proof” your environment, in this case for your pets! If you do have an emergency you can call the animal Poison Control Center at 1-888-426-4435.

When you are hosting party, many pets are not used to a lot of people coming and going on their turf! Especially young children, between the ages of 5 and 9. Hold your dog’s collar, as they sniff the palms of your guests. If your dog growls or seems agitated, move him to a room all his own. Or don’t invite those people back! Dogs are very good at judging a person’s character. If my dog doesn‘t like somebody, I generally do not invite them in.

Don’t feed turkey or chicken bones to your dog. They can splinter and choke your pet or cause other internal damage. Onions, garlic, grapes, raisin and candy, especially sugar free candy are all toxic to your best friend. Get them special dog and cat treats for the occasion. Chocolate is also very bad for your pet. The caffeine and other ingredients in chocolate is toxic to pets and can last for more than 24 hours.

Here in Hawaii, a lot of fireworks are set off for New Year’s Eve. Make sure you call your vet and get some sedatives for your dog. Cats, I have never had a problem with, they don’t like the noise, but they will go find a hiding spot and stay there. The general rule is to give your dog 1mg per body weight of your dog. Of course, ask your vet! However, sedatives effect each animal differently. My 45 pound Bob dog would be saggy eyed and staggering on one 25 mg sedative from the vet. Be careful with sick or elderly animals. If you haven’t had a recent check up for your dog, and you can’t pick up a sedative from your vet, you can use over the counter, Benadryl. They come in 25 mg tablets and I found them to be less effective, so I would give more. You need to tranquilize your dog at least an hour before all the noise and bomb blasts start. Bring them inside and avoid the danger of them chasing after the fireworks, or getting lost.  I hope you can take advantage of this advice! If you know of any other dangers to your animals, please leave a comment, especially if you have cats that have reactions to fireworks, since I have never experienced that.

I saw a funny picture the other day of a cat looking at a Christmas tree with the caption saying, “Oh Christmas Tree, oh Cfhristmas Tree, your ornaments are history!” This is so true! I always use my cheap decorations lower on the tree or you can tie you tree to the ceiling. I noticed when they were young they really went for the tree, but now, I have less broken ornaments. I alswyas have a squirt bottle full of water and just give your baby a spritz with the water, that will keep kitty away from the tree, at least for when you are not looking! You can also use string instead of the little metal hooks to hang your ornaments.

This blog is in memory of my best friend and beloved Bob, who was with me for 15 and a half years. Thank you, Bob, for all the wonderful memories. I wish we had another Christmas together. Be happy at Rainbow Bridge and I will see you again!

We rely on donations at Animal Rescue Hawaii! Any donation would be appreciated!

Get Paid to Blog!

Aloha!

It is that time of the year again, the Holiday Season! I love the lights, the feeling of goodwill, the spirit of giving rather than receiving!

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Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous Holiday Season!

Travel For Less....Go Fun Places

Aloha,

I have been having some things go on in my life in the real world, that has taken me away from my blog for a couple of weeks now, so it is time to catch up!

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The Day After Christmas

What a wonderful Christmas we had this year! We had some friend over and had some frustration in hooking up our new DVD player to watch "Pirates of the Carribean at World's End." Still haven't seen the movie, spent the whole time talking! We got a special Edition DVD that has deleted scenes, bloopers and a second Disc. Now when our friends leave today, I will have to bring the DVD Player up to our bedroom and set it up all over again. Should be able to do it! I am slightly technically challenged!

I got a great little digital camers from Kodak. It takes photos as well as video's. Only thing is, they didn't provide me with a media card! Is that stupid or what? So still using the old Canon digital I caputured whole holiday and now I can make a slide show out of it. I loaded up some tunes on my husbands MP3 player that he bought months ago and could figure out! All we had to do was drop and drag the song to the device, it was so easy it made me laugh how long we waited before adding any music for it.It is back to work for him today at the boatyard, and me, I have the State of Hawaii Unemployment office stating they need to see me today at 10 am with paystubs because there are none on their records. They don't have my employer listed right!

Tomorrow I will start work at WCCHC as a call in filling in for the receptionist that is out for surgery. WCCHC is one of the countries best publicly owned non profit heatlh center in the US! Maybe you will learn a few words in Hawaiian at the site. The view there is stunning, we sit on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean from here to Japan.

Still have New Years to get through! Fireworks are really big here and they set them off right in the neighborhood. Lat year one of my kitties got asthma from all the smoke! I gotta give my dogs "doggie downers" to keep them from getting too hyped up especially, my firstborn, Bob! Here is a link to pet care, cats and dogs.

Gotta go! Gotta put in some resumes online. Part of unemployment here is looking for work at least 3 places every week.

Go to Bizpreneur and join up with an awesome online forum. We are all there to market our products and make new contacts and friends. I think this is the best way to find prospects for my Send Out Cards business and WMS. Check out the deals at Ebay, too! We all know how the day after Christmas is a big shopping day with all the stores marking everything down to the bottom line.Above is a photo of the tri colored Gold Ring my husband got me for XMAS, it is a turtle, Honu and my amakua, guardian angel. Learn more about amakua and Hawaiian traditions and legends!

Make your day a good one!

Alohalady

Christmas is here!

Aloha and Christmas is coming in sunny and cool at night here in the Islands. I still have to decorate our tree, only the lights are up so far. Here is a pic of me and my hubby in front of the tree so now you all know how we look. (don't hold it against us!)

I have had a Safelist for years, and suddenly one day all my admins went out at once, I mean they were reallly outdated! I lost a lot of members on that one. 2007 was not a good year for me and family problems, job changes and hours, kept me offline, but I am back now and working my home businesses. I just went into my list and cleaned it up, sent out an admin to everyone, telling them to enable their accounts for their free pro upgrades. Free Pro sends once a day, paid pro gets a second daily autosend of their saved ad. It is called Dreamslist, as we all have our dreams and hopes, yeah? Join and activate your account and I will give you a free pro upgrade.

But even better than Safelists these days are the online forums. There are just so many of them! It is a great place to meet people, network and see how you can help each other out. Everyone probably already has a MySpace, but do you know about Bizpreneur or Ojeez? Ryze has been around for awhile and was probably one of the first such forums.

Sunday night and I can't think of a single program I want to watch! Whatever happened to Law and Order the original? Oh, yeah, Cold Case and Shark, I think I already missed Cold Case! My favorite Law and Order Criminal Intent is now on USA network and is just great. I am a big fan of Vincent Di'Nofrio, who played the bug in Men In Black. Remember?

I just wanted to check in for a quick post, gotta go decorate that tree, and hopefully, program my husband MP3 player, as a surprise for him for Christmas. After the Holidays are all over and we are all back to business go create a guest account for your self at Send Out Cards. This is a win/win and also you might want to look into getting your part of the Fortune 500 companies money by advertising for them. Neither business is MLM and if you want to work from home, you can really cash in on either one of these.

Have a great Holiday and spend it with the ones you love, four legged or two!

Later,

Linda