07/05
Howdy from Blue Dog Bakery! Happy 4th of July!!
What dogs do when you are not at home! Have a great summer! Margot
Lots to share with you this month:
PETSMART – NATIONWIDE – All stores are running the NEW 24 oz MORE Flavors – assorted treats, our 24 oz PB & Molasses and our 24 oz Natural Cheese Treats on promo in JULY. Also SOME stores have the LARGE 6 lb Peanut Butter & Molasses as well. Worth a look as they are a 24% savings.
Safeway - lots of new stores now carry
our treats:
(If you don’t find them today, keep looking – it takes time to set
up all the new stores. They WILL be there, though.)
Randall’s – Tom Thumb – TX now carries
our PB treats
Safeway – AZ, MN – now carries our PB
treats
Coming soon: Dominick’s IL (MORE Flavors)
and Safeway – CO, WY, NE, SD and NM will
be carrying our PB treats – look for these treats starting in JULY.
Albertson’s – S. CA and
Las Vegas, NV now carries our 24 oz Natural Cheese and new 24 oz MORE Flavors!!!!
(If you don’t find them today, keep looking – it takes time to set
up all the new stores. They WILL be there, though.)
Stater Bros. in S. CA now carries the PB and MORE flavors at a great every day low price. Save $$$.
SMART AND FINAL – carries our 6 lb. box of MORE FLAVORS at very low every day prices. Save LOTS of $$$.
HANNAFORD BROTHERS – ME, NH, VT – may still have some PB treats available. They ran a promotion mid June while supplies last. WE HOPE to have the treats in these stores on a regular basis later this summer.
WHY GOOD INGREDIENTS AS SOOOOOO IMPORTANT!.......
Teaching old dogs new tricks
By Nicholas Bakalar The New York Times
Thursday, January 27, 2005
NEW YORK Old beagles, like old humans, act younger and smarter when they get the right diet and plenty of intellectual stimulation. A report published in the January issue of Neurobiology of Aging found that a diet rich in antioxidants combined with a stimulating environment slowed the canine aging process.
The scientists divided the 48 beagles, ages 8 to 11, into four groups, giving them an enriched diet, an enriched environment, neither or both. The diet was fortified with vitamin E, vitamin C and other antioxidants. The dogs in the enriched environment group were housed with kennel mates, exercised twice a week for 15 minutes and challenged with tasks like learning to distinguish between a white box and a black box.
By the end of the two-year trial, it was clear that the enriched diet alone and the enriched environment alone were each helpful in preventing decline. But the mental functioning of the dogs given a combination of enriched diet and stimulating environment was considerably higher than that of the dogs in the other three groups, the researchers found. One author of the paper works for the company that sells the dog food used in the study.
William Milgram, the paper's lead author and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, said that one of the dogs, Scamps, "was basically a stupid dog."
"He did about as poorly on our cognitive tasks as any of the dogs in the study," Milgram said. Fortunately for Scamps, he was in the group that got the combination of enriched food and enriched environment. By the end of the study, Scamps was about average compared with the other dogs - but not because he had gotten smarter. "What happened," said Milgram, "was that he remained the same, while the dogs in the other groups showed expected deterioration."
What the study's findings mean for humans remains unclear, but Milgram believes the work may have important implications. "We're not going to 'fix' old age by discovering the magic anti-aging potion," he said. "We have to look very carefully at our living environment and at mental stimulation."
Have a wonderful 4th of JULY. Stay cool. Margot
