Ghoulishly Good dog treat recipes

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My mom loves to cook for me and here are two of my favorite Halloween Treats that I want to share with you. These are great trick or treats for us four legged monsters. First a little image to scare you or make you laugh cause that is what my mom does when I try to be scary… then the recipes.
Recipe 1:
PUMPKIN APPLE FROZEN DOG TREATS
Ingredients
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
1 small apple, peeled and remember to remove the core then chopped into small bits
1 tbsp. coconut oil (we use this one)
1 tsp. honey (raw or pure organic honey is the best)
Water 2 small silicone molds (BOO) (skeletons and ghosts) 

Instructions
Add pumpkin puree, apple, coconut oil, and honey to a blender.
Add a little water at a time and blend until smooth and liquefied.

Carefully spoon mixture into molds and freeze until solid.
Bone Chillingly delicious!

Recipe 2:
Easy as Pumpkin Pie HALLOWEEN DOG TREATS
Ingredients
1 single-serve jar of pumpkin/squash baby food (we used Organic Gerbers)
1/2 to 3/4 cup of rice flour, or other flour of your choice
water as needed
frozen green peas

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F or 180C.

Mix baby food in a medium mixing bowl
Incrementally add flour, mixing into a firm dough.

The amount of flour required may vary depending on your individual pumpkin mixture and any optional ingredients your pup has requested.

Hand roll into small balls
Place balls on a lined baking sheet
Flatten gently with your hand or spoon.

To create “pumpkin lines”:
press the flat side of a fork or knife gently in the center, or the curved side of a spoon gently on either side.

Top with a green pea “stem” and gently push into the dough to secure the pea

Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
Cool before serving or storing.
Guaranteed to carve a smile on your pup’s face.

This Years Lessons to be Thankful for: Woof

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As I sit patiently waiting for Santa to come.  Well to really tell the truth I am not a patient dog, I already opened 2 gifts because I COULDN’T WAIT and Santa had left them right in the closet so his sleight was not so heavy when he made his rounds. I just hope that doesn’t make me eligible for that naughty list my mom keeps telling me about.

Anyhow, my lesson learned this year to take with me into the new shiny new year is this:

DROP IT.
LEAVE IT.
LET IT GO.

This may sound like a simple thing to do but it really isn’t.

For me it is about putting something in my mouth that might harm me,
my mom yells out:
DROP IT. DROP IT. DROP IT.

For people it is about forgiving, and moving on from something that might poison their heart and stink up their day/week/year/life unless they just Drop It. Leave It. Let It Go.

As I see it from my “four-legged” perspective it works like this: You see another pretty little dog with a stripe down it’s back… You approach with all good intentions of making a new friendship BUT then they spray you for no reason. OH the STINK! How mean of this new potential friend. You get MAD, you want revenge. You chase that D#MN poo-poo-pet off your property and you denounce any other “black and white” potential pal you see all the while huffing with disgust. For years you hold onto this grudge remembering the  stinking consequences of that nasty meeting. A BATH, and another BATH. Your humans humiliated you by holding their noses and plopping you in the sink time and time again.

You then keep this grudge against all things “black and white” rather than just leaving that anger behind you. You never let it go because of that one encounter. It ruins your days. It ruins anything good and you just can’t move on.

Well, no more, I forgive you mr. skunk. You probably were having a bad day yourself and I am leaving my anger behind me and moving on. I think I might visit to that new dog I saw move in across the way who is “black and white”, the one with the pretty long swishy tail that speaks in “meows”, must be a foreigner.

Yes I am not ever letting the past taint my future again.
Lesson Learned:
DROP IT.
LEAVE IT.
LET IT GO.

Have you learned a good lesson this year to be thankful for?
Love,
Sadie.

PBnTasty: PupCream Recipe

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I am working on my PupScout Ice Cream Badge and have a recipe to share with everyone. Now this recipe is not for the faint of stomach, there is a waiting period for eating this wonderful PupCream.

1. Pick out some nice ripe B.A.N.A.N.A.S! 3 to be exact.

2. Peel them naked.

(you might need your paw-rents help here)

HERE IS THE HARD PART…PUT THEM ON ICE AND FREEZE OVERNIGHT-NIGHT.

NITE, NITE BANANAS… see you in 24 hours!

3. Blend Bananas in

the food processor

3. Add in 1 Tablespoon of creamy peanut butter

SERVE IMMEDIATELY or place in a container and freeze for a firmer treat. I eat mine rignt away! No time like the present to give yourself a tasty treat. If you like, you can add in strawberries or blueberriess too! I like mine classic.

YUM YUM YUM

now that’s one tasty PUPCREAM

ENJOY!!!
PS
the two-leggers like this mixture too,
so make sure to finish your bowl or they may eat it!
love ya  Miss Sadie

QUick hop on the batpod… woof

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Sadie Miki the wonder dog helping Batman save the city … R is now for Rover 🙂

We four-legged are all superheroes of one sort or another. Just look at the reality of it… we possess extraordinary talents. My supernatural phenomena is being able to eat a treat in one mouthful. Think about the symbolic moral goal of it… I am protecting the public both two-legged and four-legged of forbidden calories.  With one whoosh of my mouth the calories are defeated and can no longer hurt others. And you guessed it my mask is that I am not really a “dog” I am a four-legged wonder called Sadie. Now go forth and save human kind by joining me in gobbling up all the treats you can find!

Until our next adventure! Stay tuned.

Breakfast of Champions

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On a campaign for my two legged friends to eat better I have seen some interesting foods come into the house. This morning I discovered a food group that I hope becomes a staple in this house hold.

It is called the Cantaloupe!

Oh the sweetness, oh the texture, oh my goodness.

Did you know that melons make a tasty and nutritious treat for us four-leggers. There is lots of vitamins C and B-6, plus fiber, folate (a water-soluble B vitamin), niacin (vitamin B3) and potassium.

My people looked it up on the internet and the cantaloupe is good for my eyes because it has a lot of beta-carotene. Studies have shown that beta-carotene can help prevent or reduce the growth of cataracts. But all I know it this new yummy food is a vision of dancing pleasure.

Cantaloupe is also good for us four-leggers because it is a non-allergenic, so most dogs can stomach it with no adverse reaction.

Now I love my cantaloupe naked but the two leggers like to beat it up.

If you like soup you might like the recipe they found on the Food Network by Alex Guarnaschelli, Cantaloupe Soup.

 

or this Cantaloupe-Veggie Smoothie

But take it from me the best cantaloupe is naked!

Dogisms: a pictorial “Sadie Says” woofs of wisdoms.

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Woof, Sadie!

Sadie’s Oscar Picks: Predictions from a tail wager

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Our house has watched all the nominees this year and I am going to give my predictions for the Oscars as well as my own personal comments.

BEST PICTURE
I really liked a lot of the nominees so this one was hard to select but I am going to pick the movie that took me on a ride. I listened to a lot of discussions about this movie… was the character already dead?  Was this just a dream from the beginning? I loved listening to the discussions as much as I enjoyed watching Sandra Bullock floating on the screen.

Best Picture

            •            American Hustle

            •            Captain Phillips

            •            Dallas Buyers Club

            •            Gravity

            •            Her

            •            Nebraska

            •            Philomena

            •            12 Years a Slave

            •            The Wolf of Wall Street

 

BEST ACTOR
All the boys are all really fabulous actors and I was really torn here on who to pick. It is not the favored actor I am choosing I am liking the actor who caused my people to reach for the Kleenex the most and that would be the performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave. It was a brilliant portrayal of survival and endurance.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

            •            Christian Bale: American Hustle

            •            Bruce Dern: Nebraska

            •            Leonardo DiCaprio: The Wolf of Wall Street

            •            Chiwetel Ejiofor: 12 Years a Slave

            •            Matthew McConaughey: Dallas Buyers Club

 

BEST ACTRESS
Well I must say all the actresses are stellar in their own right but you have to give it to Sandra Bullock for floating about the screen most of the movie all alone and showcasing so much emotion even when she was wearing that space helmet.

Best Actress in a Leading Role

            •            Amy Adams: American Hustle

            •            Cate Blanchett: Blue Jasmine

            •            Sandra Bullock: Gravity

            •            Judi Dench: Philomena

            •            Meryl Streep: August: Osage County

 

BEST ACTOR SUPPORTING ROLE
Supporting actors are the sidekicks that we all love and this year we have a wonderful list to pick from. We did really love Jared Leto in the movie that was all about body transformations but I am going to give my vote to an unknown who made me bark at the screen because his character was so realistic as a Somali pirate. And my two-leggers loved the line  “everything gonna be OK“ I love it when my people laugh like that (they even sang a Bob Marley song called ‘Three Little Birds’ every time the actor said the line), which is why I give this one to the new comer in the pack, Barkhad Abdj.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
            •            Barkhad Abdi: Captain Phillips

            •            Bradley Cooper: American Hustle

            •            Michael Fassbender: 12 Years a Slave

            •            Jonah Hill: The Wolf of Wall Street

            •            Jared Leto: Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Once again a long list of wonderful actresses and I am going to have to give it to a new comer to the American scene, who was riveting on the screen playing a slave subject to her master’s needs.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

            •            Sally Hawkins: Blue Jasmine

            •            Jennifer Lawrence: American Hustle

            •            Lupita Nyong’o: 12 Years a Slave

            •            Julia Roberts: August: Osage County

            •            June Squibb: Nebraska

 

BEST-ANIMATED Feature

We all love the art of animated movies in our house. I was happy to see Disney Studios finally putting out a fun feature. Frozen melted my heart and I definitely want to have a funny snowman as my sidekick.  My two-leggers are against this but might get me a stuffed toy to play with.

Best Animated Feature

            •            The Croods: Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson

            •            Despicable Me 2: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri

            •            Ernest & Celestine: Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner

            •            Frozen: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho

            •            The Wind Rises: Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki

 

Best Cinematography

Well, as you can tell by my other picks that this is a no-brainer pick. WOOF the cinematography used to whirl you about in Gravity was amazing.

Best Cinematography

            •            The Grandmaster: Philippe Le Sourd

            •            Gravity: Emmanuel Lubezki

            •            Inside Llewyn Davis: Bruno Delbonnel

            •            Nebraska: Phedon Papamichael

            •            Prisoners: Roger A. Deakins

 

Best Costume Design
We did really find the 70’s garb to be realistic and loved the permed hair (is that a costume?) but I think the winner should be 12 Years a Slave for transforming the screen into a different era.

Best Costume Design

            •            American Hustle: Michael Wilkinson

            •            The Grandmaster: William Chang Suk Ping

            •            The Great Gatsby: Catherine Martin

            •            The Invisible Woman: Michael O’Connor

            •            12 Years a Slave: Patricia Norris

 

Best Direction
Can you guess what I think is going to take the Oscars by storm! A wonderful storm of human determination, reality and hope.

Best Directing

            •            American Hustle (David O. Russell

            •            Gravity: Alfonso Cuarón

            •            Nebraska (Alexander Payne

            •            12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen

            •            The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese

 

Best Documentary Feature
It is amazing to watch and hear the story of how the backup singer who has a spotlight behind the follow spot of the star. A reflection on musical notes behind the spotlight.

Best Documentary Feature

            •            The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen

            •            Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher

            •            Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill

            •            The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer

            •            20 Feet from Stardom (Nominees to be determined

 

Best Documentary Short
I think the dog in CaveDigger should have been nominated myself but want to give my 4 paws to the documentary The Lady in Number Six Trailer where we see that music can transform any tragedy into a dream.

Best Documentary Short

            •            CaveDigger: Jeffrey Karoff

            •            Facing Fear: Jason Cohen

            •            Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq

            •            The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life: Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed

            •            Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall: Edgar Barens

 

Best Film Editing
Once again I am wagging my tail fast and furiously hoping to become an astronaut myself someday.

Best Film Editing

            •            American Hustle: Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten

            •            Captain Phillips: Christopher Rouse

            •            Dallas Buyers Club: John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa

            •            Gravity: Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger

            •            12 Years a Slave: Joe Walker

 

Best Foreign Language Film
All these stories were told and shot very well. My vote goes to a story told in bluegrass song, a love story bent and beautifully shot.

Best Foreign Language Film

            •            The Broken Circle Breakdown: Belgium

            •            The Great Beauty: Italy

            •            The Hunt: Denmark

            •            The Missing Picture: Cambodia

            •            Omar: Palestine

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Transformation! Transformation! Transformation!

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

            •            Dallas Buyers Club: Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews

            •            Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty

            •            The Lone Ranger: Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny

 

Best Original Score
Of course my pick is Gravity again because when you have a movie that takes you on a journey with one main character in outer space you need a BIG sound to fill the heart chasing moments as well as the lost moments.

Best Original Score

            •            The Book Thief: John Williams

            •            Gravity: Steven Price

            •            Her: William Butler, Owen Pallett

            •            Philomena: Alexandre Desplat

            •            Saving Mr. Banks: Thomas Newman

 

Best Original Song
Another great female belt song by Disney!

Best Original Song

            •            Happy: Despicable Me 2

            •            Let It Go: Frozen

            •            The Moon Song: Her

            •            Ordinary Love: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

 

Best Production Design
Production is the stitches that hold the fabric of a film together, and this year 12 Years a Slave was sewn together with intricate production. Four tail wags and a woof!

Best Production Design

            •            American Hustle: Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler

            •            Gravity: Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard

            •            The Great Gatsby: Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

            •            Her: K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena

            •            12 Years a Slave: Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker

 

Best Animated Short Film
This is a group of wonderful shorts and there are some great dogs featured too My vote goes to Mr. Hublot and his wonderful robot dog!

Best Animated Short Film

            •            Feral: Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden

            •            Get a Horse!: Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim

            •            Mr. Hublot: Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares

            •            Possessions: Shuhei Morita

            •            Room on the Broom: Max Lang, Jan Lachauer

 

Best Live Action Short Film
Very hard category, I was taken by all of them in different ways some were funny, some were heart breaking and others uplifting. So I am going to place my vote this year for “Just Before Losing Everything” for the nerve wrenching moments in time it takes you to.

Best Live Action Short Film

            •            Aquel No Era Yo: That Wasn’t Me: Esteban Crespo

            •            Avant Que De Tout Perdre: Just Before Losing Everything : Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras

            •            Helium: Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson

            •            Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?: Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?: Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari

            •            The Voorman Problem: Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

 

Best Sound Editing
Is there sound in space? There is in Gravity, and it’s the best.

Best Sound Editing

            •            All Is Lost: Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns

            •            Captain Phillips: Oliver Tarney

            •            Gravity: Glenn Freemantle

            •            The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Brent Burge, Chris Ward

            •            Lone Survivor: Wylie Stateman

 

Best Sound Mixing
I know you think I have launched a one-way ticket to outer space with my votes and well, you would be right.

Best Sound Mixing

            •            Captain Phillips: Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro

            •            Gravity: Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro

            •            The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson

            •            Inside Llewyn Davis: Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland

            •            Lone Survivor: Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow

 

Best Visual Effects
To The Moon Sandra! What a team!

Best Visual Effects

            •            Gravity: Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould

            •            The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds

            •            Iron Man 3: Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick

            •            The Lone Ranger: Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier

            •            Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton

 

Best Adapted Screenplay
To take a story and play it out on screen is a talent. To do that for free is a passion which is why I have chosen 12 Years a Slave by John Ridley who took on the project for “spec”. It is more than a mere “spec” it is a SPECtacular screenplay!

Best Adapted Screenplay

            •            Before Midnight: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

            •            Captain Phillips: Billy Ray

            •            Philomena: Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

            •            12 Years a Slave: John Ridley

            •            The Wolf of Wall Street: Terence Winter

 

Best Original Screenplay
The 70’s, the scandal, the Hustle!

Best Original Screenplay

            •            American Hustle: Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

            •            Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen

            •            Dallas Buyers Club: Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack

            •            Her: Spike Jonze

            •            Nebraska: Bob Nelson

Well, those are my picks, no bones about it! If you have other picks let me know and have fun watching the Oscars!

 

Get some GOOD Karma (help the four-leggers!)

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Today I sit here thinking of how wonderful my life is and how important it is that all four-leggers get to experience the love that my home surrounds me with. It is because of this I am going to howl out about a four-legged charity fundraiser event where YOU can get involved to help the less fortunate four-legged.

If you live in the Los Angeles area you can come in-person to the wonderful event, or if you live somewhere else just as beautiful there is an online auction to give back the Karma to the Rescues. Here are the d’Tails:

The group is called: Karma Rescue
10th Annual Fundraiser
When: October 5th 2013, 6:30pm to 10:30pm
Where: Lightspace Studios
 8755 Washington BLVD, Culver City, 90232

There are going to be some tail wagging fun, my favorite is
a Puppy Kissing Booth!

Hamburger Mary’s Famous Bingo

There will be treats both Vegetarian and Vegan, an open bar and lots of prizes!
They suggest that two-leggers dress up in cocktail attire. Tickets are available online.

If you can’t attend you can still get involved with the online auction:
Bid on great online auction items such as: a trip to Puerto Vallarta, signed Lakers basketballs, great restaurants, Lucky Strike bowling, yoga, and wine tastings at biddingforgood.com/createkarma. Bidding starts on September 20th.

Thank you for reading about this fun event and remember to hug a four-legger today!

The Big ONE

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This week I turned the

It was such an auspicious day in the history of my two leggers life that they threw me a party at the zoomroom in Hollywood. I just love it there and suggest that if your people ever want to throw a party for you this would be a fabulous place to book. They have disco doggie lights, agility training equipment that is all set up for fun and games. They even played my favorite tunes for the gala event.

We had fortune cookies with my pearls of wisdom. The Seven “Sadie Says” fortunes that you can read here.

Here is what they say in case you can’t read them:

SADIE SAYS: When Life gets too Busy. Take a Nap.

SADIE SAYS: Play Nice with Others. They will Play Nice with You.

SADIE SAYS: Remember to NOT Chase your Tail. You will get Nowhere

SADIE SAYS: Wag your Tail Often. It Takes the Bite out of Boredom.

SADIE SAYS: If Pack Leader Picks a Bone with You. Rollover. Play Dead.

SADIE SAYS: When you Find Happiness. Always Remember to Sit and Stay.

SADIE SAYS: If your Ball Lands in Poop. Just Leave It.

My two legged people made certain that all the goodies at the party were “Sadie Savvy” from the wine selection to the napkins and sodas.

You can get your own personalized labels done at www.personalwine.com…my people designed them with yours truly as the star model.

Because I learned how to go over the A frame and Dog Walk with cheese as my treat of choice we served 6 wonderful cheeses from the cheese store of silverlake ca. They have a website if you want to sample some of my favorites. store.cheesestoresl.com

Of course we had to have pupcakes from Srinkles Cupcakes. (All my four legged guests just loved them)

I have put together a few more images of the evening for you to enjoy.

I am still exhausted from opening all the wonderful presents that I received.  As I reflect back on my first year of life it is obvious to me that it is important to train your human. My suggestion to all four leggers out there is to regularly give your two leggers lots of attention, they worry too much and need lessons from us on how to play.

Learning Tricks

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I have embarked on a new class at the ZoomRoom called Tricks. I am excited to learn something new. Unfortunately the air conditioner was broken during our first class and it was very difficult to focus on new tricks let alone meet new people and their pets. It was a sauna in there. I am panting just thinking about it now. Everyone is much more advanced than myself, but I plan on practicing my sit pretty and wave this week so that I can move on to new tricks the other dogs were doing.

Just in case you might like to learn a few new tricks I will be giving you some tips on how I learn these fun tricks. All my tricks are learned under adult two legged supervision with positive training. You can read up on positive training from one of our favorite TV persona. Victoria Stilwell.

1. Sit Pretty.
This is one of my two legged people’s favorite tricks because I have to concentrate so hard that I often stick my tongue out while performing this trick. First have your two legged pal get one of your favorite treats, (I prefer ziwipeak treats). Sit in front of them. They will move their hand with the treat towards you, just above your head… but not too high. They say the magic words “sit pretty” and up I go, everyone smiles at this trick. It took a lot of patience and quite a few tries to get the trick right but it is a crowd-pleaser that I hope you try. (If you click on my photo you can see me in action)

Sadie Sitting Pretty

2. Down.
I hate to admit this, but this was a very hard trick for me to learn. I knew sit, I learned sit pretty but down was just puzzling to me. I will explain how my two legged people finally got me to learn “down”. They had to sit with me and pay a lot of attention to my body language. We would do a few tricks which I would be rewarded for with lots of praise and sometimes a treat and in-between tricks they would say “down” and bring the treat to the ground. This didn’t work too well but then I would tire and they would praise me and repeat the word “down” it only took me a few times to realize that down meant laying on the floor. Odd trick but it really makes the two-leggers happy.

3. Bang. (This is what my people call it) some people call this “play dead”
Once I mastered “down” we started giving treats for the word “bang” which, honestly, I think is all about having one’s tummy rubbed.

I will be posting more later as my teacher at the ZoomRoom is going to try to teach me how to ring a bell. I plan on spending hours with my people learning these fun tricks.