Dog Focused Saturday

Today was mainly about Radar. Nothing wrong with that.

We got up and played with Radar, taking turns playing tug of war with him.

After we had lunch we decided to go out to the pet store, which is one of the ones that you can bring in well behaved and vaccinated dogs. So we brought Radar with us.

Radar has had an upset stomach and very itchy skin since we brought him home. He was on Science Diet from the pound, and we were planning on changing his food anyway. So because of his symptoms I did some research and we both believe that Radar has a wheat allergy.

And even if he doesn't, it's just a filler in dog food anyway, as well as treats. So we are cutting both wheat and corn (another filler) out of his diet just to be on the safe side.

He is now on a wheat and corn free dog food. Which is surprisingly cheaper than the Science Diet.

Since we have decided to cut all wheat and corn out of his diet I had to throw out all the open treat bags that we had for him, because they all contained it. There was still one bag that was not opened, so we went to the pet store to return that as well as his leash. The other night when I was taking Radar outside, we were standing outside our front door and I was putting the key in the door. Two people were walking by and Radar wanted to go say hi. Well of course he couldn't reach. Next thing I know Radar is off the leash and sitting very nicely in front of the people walking down the sidewalk.

I of course freaked. He didn't bolt, he just wanted pets from new friends. I grabbed his collar and walked him inside, holding his leash in my other hand. Master had to calm me down, I was so shaken.

Master inspected the leash and realized that the clip was not closing fully, which is how Radar got off the leash. No way we were keeping that.

The store didn't give us any problems about returning the items. We used the credit at the store to get Radar a new tug of war toy and a bandanna. His bandanna looks so cute on him! It's blue camouflage.

We came home and played with Radar some more. Radar is starting to feel better now that he is on the new food.

We went out to dinner with our friend SS, but her new boyfriend couldn't come. Although it seems like it's getting serious as they are talking about the possibility of marriage already! I'm excited for her.

Now we're home, relaxing and enjoying the rest of our evening.