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I can highly recommend this toy too.
https://www.chewy.com/starmark-treat-dispensing-chew-ball/dp/45447

I have 2 of them and mine are still like new even after 16 years.
Seriously my dogs use and play with these regularly!
Not kidding you they are awesome!

I put a handful of a dog food that I buy as treats in it and the dogs work the toy to get the treats.
I use Taste Of The Wild in them. Its expensive food and was to much for Jack to handle after his surgery so it's a treat now.

By the way the price is fantastic! I paid $20 each when I got mine years and years ago.
 
21hens-incharge said:
When the kids were little we definitely did Christmas.
Our youngest is 29 now.
As the kids got jobs and wanted to buy stuff for everyone we could tell that it was stressful.
We had a family meeting and decided to forego gifts going forward.
We do pull out all the old board games and spend the day together.
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Molpet said:
yeah i took out water and let them out at dawn..11f and it was iced over by the time I walked the dog and was bring food out.. less than an hour. :he But there is a big yellow ball in the sky that i haven't seen all month :wee
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This is one thing that annoys me about Christmas. I always tell my kids I don't need/ want a gift. My gift is them not fighting for the day (I've never gotten it.. but they do try). Last year my youngest insisted on getting me a new coffee maker when mine was perfectly fine. She used her own money she'd been given as gifts which isn't right, IMO. But their dad is a different story. He expects a gift and will have a fit if he thinks it's not good enough. They also can't share a gift. And they have to get something for his wife and his parents (her mom is JW so they don't get her a gift). This ticks me off to no end. IMO THEY should take the kids shopping and get the gifts instead of expecting the kids or me to buy them. My kids don't get an allowance so they're either spending money they were given as a gift or my $$ to buy their gifts. I can't not help the kids b/c they get really stressed out about it. I've always had them exchange gifts with each other since they were little and that's fun, but it's not super expensive and it helps them b/c they get to think about their sister and what they like. Of course, I pay for that so I don't expect them to use their for that. When they're older and have jobs then they can decide what they want to keep doing it. I don't do gift exchanges for my brother's kids. None of us do. We spend our $$ on our own kids instead. I just don't understand when people expect every person in the extended family to buy gifts for everyone else. It just seems excessive.


Chickassan said:
Good afternoon! I'm stocked up and ready for the weekend ice craziness. The stores are already a dang warzone so we will be eating "interestingly" to say the least. I was lucky enough to get a gallon of milk but the bread isle was sad. I did score a 12 pack of hamburger buns, so anything sandwichy is fun on a bun. Got some birdseed/budget chicken food and a little waaaay overpriced watermelon to stove off any boredom riots. I'm good to go.:yesss:
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Stay safe! Of course I had no idea about this b/c we don't hear about weather happening to other places unless it's 12 feet of snow or a hurricane.
 
Lol! It won't be bad. Anytime we get a dusting here people just go insane. If the roads are icy we just stay home because people certainly don't get any smarter in their cars.:lau
apryl29 said:
This is one thing that annoys me about Christmas. I always tell my kids I don't need/ want a gift. My gift is them not fighting for the day (I've never gotten it.. but they do try). Last year my youngest insisted on getting me a new coffee maker when mine was perfectly fine. She used her own money she'd been given as gifts which isn't right, IMO. But their dad is a different story. He expects a gift and will have a fit if he thinks it's not good enough. They also can't share a gift. And they have to get something for his wife and his parents (her mom is JW so they don't get her a gift). This ticks me off to no end. IMO THEY should take the kids shopping and get the gifts instead of expecting the kids or me to buy them. My kids don't get an allowance so they're either spending money they were given as a gift or my $$ to buy their gifts. I can't not help the kids b/c they get really stressed out about it. I've always had them exchange gifts with each other since they were little and that's fun, but it's not super expensive and it helps them b/c they get to think about their sister and what they like. Of course, I pay for that so I don't expect them to use their for that. When they're older and have jobs then they can decide what they want to keep doing it. I don't do gift exchanges for my brother's kids. None of us do. We spend our $$ on our own kids instead. I just don't understand when people expect every person in the extended family to buy gifts for everyone else. It just seems excessive.



Stay safe! Of course I had no idea about this b/c we don't hear about weather happening to other places unless it's 12 feet of snow or a hurricane.
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Chickassan said:
Lol! It won't be bad. Anytime we get a dusting here people just go insane. If the roads are icy we just stay home because people certainly don't get any smarter in their cars.:lau
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My cousin lives in Kansas and she said they close everything if they get a little snow, but it'll be freezing there and they'll have school even though most kids walk to school.
 
apryl29 said:
This is one thing that annoys me about Christmas. I always tell my kids I don't need/ want a gift. My gift is them not fighting for the day (I've never gotten it.. but they do try). Last year my youngest insisted on getting me a new coffee maker when mine was perfectly fine. She used her own money she'd been given as gifts which isn't right, IMO. But their dad is a different story. He expects a gift and will have a fit if he thinks it's not good enough. They also can't share a gift. And they have to get something for his wife and his parents (her mom is JW so they don't get her a gift). This ticks me off to no end. IMO THEY should take the kids shopping and get the gifts instead of expecting the kids or me to buy them. My kids don't get an allowance so they're either spending money they were given as a gift or my $$ to buy their gifts. I can't not help the kids b/c they get really stressed out about it. I've always had them exchange gifts with each other since they were little and that's fun, but it's not super expensive and it helps them b/c they get to think about their sister and what they like. Of course, I pay for that so I don't expect them to use their for that. When they're older and have jobs then they can decide what they want to keep doing it. I don't do gift exchanges for my brother's kids. None of us do. We spend our $$ on our own kids instead. I just don't understand when people expect every person in the extended family to buy gifts for everyone else. It just seems excessive.



Stay safe! Of course I had no idea about this b/c we don't hear about weather happening to other places unless it's 12 feet of snow or a hurricane.
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That sounds very stressful. :hugs

It would tick me off too.

It's really unfair of him to expect that.
 
Same here, if it snows nothing runs. The schools close, mail may or may not happen. Only certainty is nobody is getting groceries or heating fuel once the first flake is mentioned. Buuut it can be 10 degrees outside and no snow and everything is just roses.:th
apryl29 said:
My cousin lives in Kansas and she said they close everything if they get a little snow, but it'll be freezing there and they'll have school even though most kids walk to school.
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21hens-incharge said:
:hugs:hugs:hugs
Now that I have showered I can hug back.

Off to tend birds. It is an awesome 21° out.
Better than yesterday's whopping 15 in the morning.
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We are up to 50°. I love it when the waterers aren't frozen.
I think i may be catching something, i have a sore throat and a stuffy nose. :(
 

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