Dog Shampoo

Is your dog itching, scratching and stinking beyond belief?

Mine does constantly. Every summer Link gets a rash on her backside that is horrible and the stink, ugh.

Do you?

Wash your dog one day, just to have the stink return the next?
Wait weeks between bathing your dog because his skin gets so dry and flaky?
Hate bathing your dog because you rinse and rinse and rinse...and still can't get him completely rinsed?

Need help?

Why not try the all natural dog shampoo Dogosuds ® made by Dinovite, Inc.

Isn't it time for that new dog smell?

Dogosuds ® Benefits:
• Makes your dog smell CLEAN and WONDERFUL for a long time.
• Lathers beautifully ... and RINSES EASILY!
• Contains 100% pure, therapeutic grade essential oils that have natural, healing properties • Gentle soothing shampoo works well for sensitive skin.
• Is a NATURAL FLEA DETERRENT
• Lathers beautifully ... and RINSES EASILY!
• Contains NO CHEMICALS, NO PERFUMES, NO FILLERS, nothing to irritate or dry your dog's skin!
• Also works great to remove SKUNK odor!

Check out the dog shampoo at http://www.dinovite.com/dog_shampoo.html
And also look at Dinovite's other products at http://www.dinovite.com/

We usually take Link to the local groomers up the street to get her bathed and shorn but with the times being what they are, I don’t think I can afford that anymore. I definitely will be looking further into the Dinovite dog shampoo.

The ingredient list is full of all natural Ingredients: Saponified coconut oil, Saponified olive oil, Saponified jojoba oil, vegetable gum/glycerine extract, aloe extract, yucca extract, peppermint extract, lavender extract, tea tree oil, bergamot extract, geranium extract, patchouli extract, sandalwood extract and rosemary extract.

And the price is right! For the cost of getting Link shampooed I can buy 5 bottles of this product. Now I may need to get a bigger bathtub, LOL.

A Little Bit Farther Now

Tonight Taj was visiting so Caity and I included him in our evening walk. We also smartened up and brought a flashlight since it was almost 9pm.

Yes we still wore our sandals, we aren't into this in a serious manner yet. For the 3 mile walk I wore my cross-trainers, for the record.

This time we went over an extra block adding almost a quarter of a mile to our walk. I liked this block better for coming down hill, perhaps it is the stability of the sidewalks (not being as chunked up) that helped, but my knees fared better this evening. Of course earlier in the day I had to sit for 2.5 hours in a metal folding chair in a room with no ac and so anything after that would be a welcomed relief. (more on that tomorrow)

Walking the Dog

Image by adriennevh via Flickr

Uncle Marcel brought up a point about there may be dogs in the neighborhood that may need walking, so I should bring them along for company. Cue sad whimpering from my own dog, who rarely gets walked. SHe has always been hard to walk because she is a big dog (shephard/lab mix) and she pulls and no one has ever disciplined her and blah blah blah. But now that her arthritis is as bad as mine, we actually manage ok. So tonight we went for a walk.

It was shorter than I intended since not only did I have a big dog on a leash, but I also had the 3 year old NOT on a leash. Cait did well though. Upon announcing we were going for a walk, Kathy immediately went into automated mode and said, she needs tennis shoes not her sandals and you need the stroller or else you will be carrying her. Uh no, I will not be carrying her, she will walk. And her sandals are just fine, as I am also wearing sandals. Buh bye.

Accoridng to the Bee Well Miles website (I love that you can map out your walk and it gives you the distance) our little trip around our block was .486 miles. Not very far and you'll be happy to know tha Caity didn't ask to be carried, not even once. I on the other hand was looking for a pit stop.

Our neighborhood is on the incline of a mountain. While for most people the up hill climbing is hard, I really am ok with it. More so than anything downhill. The next time we walk around the block we will go counter clockwise and do the majority of it up instead of down. Down just really is a pain in the knees and hips.

It is a beautiful evening in Cal tonight, I hope we have many more, I like walking in the evening. Let's hope this initiative lasts me a while.