![]() ![]() Thanks to anxious pets, and their equally anxious “pet parents,” PetSmart says its assortment of anti-anxiety products has expanded 45 percent in the past 3 years. If your pet likes to eat his way through anxiety, there are treats to help. “Some chews and oral supplements have chamomile and tryptophan,” said Larson, helping to calm your pet through the booming fireworks of Fourth of July. Not just for attracting a mate, for cats and dogs pheromones “mimic what they experience in their litter with their mom,” said Larson, “so they have a nice calming solution.” And you can administer the product through pheromone infused toys, a diffuser, spray or a collar. Modeled by Mara, a Thundershirt “looks a bit like a dog harness,” said PetSmart’s Larson, “you put it on pretty tight on your dog and it creates like a hug or a swaddling effect, a bit like swaddling a baby.” If you’re more of a feline fan, Thundershirts are also available for cats. Mardi Larson, senior director of public relations at PetSmart, gave us the rundown of the wide array of anti-anxiety products available. But soon we shall spend our first National Day of Dog Terror together, aka the Fourth of July.Īnd so we decided that Mara should make her Marketplace Weekend debut, trying out some of the many dog-calming products available on the market: Sprays, pheromones and the always-popular Thundershirt. She is calm and sociable, and seems unfazed by most things. But as anyone who follows my social media presence knows, I have just adopted a dog named Mara. In his later years, he even got doggie Xanax. On one particularly bad night, in the middle of a mountain storm, my brother Jake and I had to roll him in a sheet like a swaddled baby, and sleep on either side of him on the floor. Gus, however, was deathly afraid of thunderstorms and fireworks. He was big and brawny, a lab-pit mix who looked almost leonine in profile. Smart, devoted and incredibly handsome, he could also balance things on his nose. After a few days of calls to the local dogcatcher and vets, he joined our family and we named him Gus. Now this would have been worth a trip up to Los Angeles…Īlle圜at seems unfazed by it all…I love the way she crosses her paws.Many years ago, my family found a sweet, emaciated dog wandering in a meadow in the Catskills behind our house. Pretty amazing & these are just a few of my favorite pictures courtesy of Yahoo! Have you been watching the news as Endeavor crawled through the streets of Los Angeles? It is way behind it’s scheduled arrival time. I have beaded the crown, but now I need to be stitching on what I need to be stitching, not what I want to….does that make sense? This is a canvas that patiently awaits some of my time. Since Crown Copyright expires on artistic works created by the UK government after 50 years, the image is now in the public domain.” So now we get to enjoy these clever sayings on our needlepoint canvas, on tshirts…well just about anything you can think of! In 2000, a copy of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster was rediscovered in Barter Books, a second-hand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland. It was believed there were only two known surviving examples of the poster outside government archives until a collection of 15 originals was brought in to the Antiques Roadshow in 2012 by the daughter of an ex-Royal Observer Corps member. The poster was rediscovered in 2000 and has been re-issued by a number of private companies, and used as the decorative theme for a range of products. It had only limited distribution, and thus was little known. “Keep Calm and Carry On was a poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of a Nazi invasion of Britain. I would rather spend that money on needlepoint stuff. Even though our gas has come down a bit, it is still around $4.65 a gallon, so I will wait. I am of the school that less is more in my stitching. Believe it or not the compensating stitches were not difficult at all! So I am considering this done and it will be going to the framers the next time I head up to A Stitch in Time. I was thinking that it might become too busy. You know that counting thing.Īfter the cats were all finished, I thought that it didn’t need the fish. Remember when I said I was taking the Kreinik out? well after a few attempts and lots of reverse stitching, I finally figured that it was easier to stitch the cat first rather than the fish. The stitch as it was diagrammed by Brenda Hart in her 3rd book, Stitches for the Millenium has the cat stitched alternately with the fish. Is finished! and I am thrilled with the way it came out…now you are saying, where is that fish that was stitched in your background? ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |