Super cool video by Kelsey Wynns of a dog park taken from Bishop the Great Dane’s point of view. Love the manipulation of the video! And the dogs are absolutely mesmerizing.
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I’m thinking Smitty the Golden Lab is wondering how it is that this movie ever got made.
Here are heaps & heaps of Valentine’s Day DIY projects for your cat. Be sure to add some catnip to their stuffing. All of these patterns are free. But don’t be a tool and use patterns to make things to sell if the author asks you not to. And please support the people providing all these patterns if they have etsy shops, stores, books, or patterns for sale. These people totally rock for providing these patterns for free!
Row 1
- knitted & felted hearts
- more knitted & felted hearts also available in German and French
- crocheted heart
Row 2
- hand-sewn felt hearts
- crocheted cupcake (I would leave off the beads)
- hand-sewn felt cupcake (I would avoid using glue and sew everything, if you do use glue make sure it’s non-toxic)
Row 3
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Row 5
Instead of a a Friday Fun video, I’m sharing a remarkable video of a dog being freed from being chained to a fence for his entire life.
The guy rescuing Alex is Steve Markwell, founder and executive director of Olympic Animal Sanctuary. Olympic Animal Sanctuary is a unique organization that takes dogs who have been deemed dangerous, that won’t be accepted by any animal shelters, and/or that are going to be destroyed because of behavior. Steve is giving these dogs a home for the rest of their life and working on their fears & reactivity to make that life as good as possible. (note: Steve is also my cousin)
Please don’t chain your dog and do something about dogs you see that are chained—contact animal control, animal welfare groups, or anti-chaining groups. Support legislation banning the chaining or tethering of dogs.
Today I have patterns for two different Valentine’s Day sweaters you can knit for your pup or a friend’s. If you have a larger or smaller dog than these patterns will work for, check out this dog sweater calculator to resize them. You can also use any pattern for a larger or smaller sweater and just add the designs to your own pattern.
I. The hearts & bones sweater has a cute motif and has knitted straps to keep the sweater in place.
II. This sweater has a heart with a bone shot through it and some crocheted trim. (for more patterns by this designer for purchase, check out Kay’s shop on etsy MySavannahCottage)
