August 2007


What dogs do when you are not at home!
(couldn’t resist showing this again from an earlier newsletter)

Howdy from Blue Dog Bakery,

These are truly to Dog Days of Summer! Hot, lazy days of summer.

Wikipedia tells us the term "Dog Days" was coined by the ancient Romans, who called these days caniculares dies (days of the dogs) after Sirius (the "Dog Star"), the brightest star in the heavens besides the Sun. Popularly believed to be an evil time "when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies" (from Brady’s Clavis Calendarium, 1813).

Sure hope your doggies don’t go mad or you get hysterical! Instead, enjoy an ice cold lemonade in the shape, give that doggie pal of yours lots of water and the occasional homemade popsicle. Try freezing carrots, apples or our treats in a small amounts of water. Dogs love them and as they melt there is a surprise inside. They will take longer to eat, but may help keep your doggies cool! Feed outdoors to avoid any mess.

Be cool! Margot

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New treats in stores! Yippee skippee!!!
- Shaw’s – MA, ME, NH, RI, CT, VT – now carries all of our treats
- Dierbergs – MO now carries all of are treats
- ShopRite – NY, NJ, PA now carries our 24 oz treats
- Jewel - IL - now has Blue Dog treats in their WILD HARVEST natural section
- Marsh – IN, OH now has all of our Blue Dog treats!
- HEB - TX now carries our 24 oz MORE Flavors along with the PB & Molasses
- Big Y – MA, CT will have our 24 oz PB & Molasses and MORE Flavors back soon!!
- Ralph’s - S. CA is now carrying our 24 oz PB & Molasses treats and our 24 oz MORE Flavors – assorted treats.
- Dominick’s - IL now is carrying our 24 oz PB & Molasses treats along with our 24 oz MORE Flavors – assorted treats.
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Stores running promotions of Blue Dog treats in August– SAVE $$$$

A&P – NJ, NY, CT – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors, 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies
ALBERTSON’S - N CA – 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies - 2nd half of month
DEMOULAS MARKET BASKET – MA, NH – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
DIERBERG’S – MO - 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors, 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies
DILLON – KS, NE– 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
DOMINICK’S – IL – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors – second half of month
FOOD EMPORUIM – NY 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors, 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies
FRED MEYER – OR, WA, AK, ID – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
FRY’S – AZ – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
GENARDI’S – PA, NJ – 24 oz PB & Molasses – second half of month
KING SOOPERS – CO – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
KROGER – OH, IN, IL, MI, TN, NC, KY, WV, AR, GA, MS, TX – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
PAVILLION’S – CA – 24 oz PB & Molasses – second half of month
PRICE CHOPPER – NY, NH, VT, MA, CT, PA – 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies
RANDALL’S/TOM THUMB – TX – 24 oz PB & Molasses – second half of month
RALPH’S - CA – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
SAFEWAY – AZ, NM, CO, WY, NE, SD, DC, VA, MD, DE, CA, WA, AK – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors –second half of month
SMITH’S - UT, NM, NV – 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors
SPARTAN STORES – MI, OH - 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors – first half of month
SUPER FRESH – DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA ,VA– 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors, 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies
VONS – S. CA – 24 oz PB & Molasses – second half of month
WALBAUM’S – CT, NJ, NY– 24 oz PB & Molasses & 24 oz MORE Flavors, 10 oz Doggie Paws and 10 oz PB Softies

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Grow Old With Dogs

When I am old
I will wear soft gray sweatshirts
and a bandana over my silver hair
and I will spend my social security checks on wine and my dogs.
I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair and listen
to my dogs' breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for an ice cream, if my old car will allow.
When people come to call,
I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs
and talk of them and about them
the ones so beloved of the past
and the ones so beloved of today.

I will still work hard cleaning after them, mopping
and feeding them and whispering their names in a soft loving way.
I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat, like a
jewel and I will be an embarrassment to all
especially my family
who have not yet found the peace
in being free to have dogs as your best friends.

These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall
and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep, to
greet you as if you are a god.
With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that you will always stay,
I'll hug their big strong necks.
I'll kiss their dear sweet heads
and whisper in their very special company.

I look in the Mirror
and see I am getting old
this is the kind of person I am
and have always been.
Loving dogs is easy,
they are part of me.
Please accept me for who I am.
My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives
they love my presence in their lives.
When I am old this will be important to me
you will understand when you are old
if you have dogs to love too.

~Author Unknown


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Thank you, Margot

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