Envy holding Preston

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Alisha's favorite pose

With a baby on the way, we knew that the floor being littered with salmonella and chicken is not the best idea.  We are moving her back to kibble dog food…. reluctantly.  Alisha and I don’t want to do it, but know with a baby on the way we must do so in order to keep the house safe for Preston.  My mom and I did a lot of research the other night and we decided to try out a relatively new food from Merrick called Before Grain.  The ingredient list is spectacular and is all natural with no grains (dogs should NOT be eating grains in their food and I can almost guarantee that your supermarket dog food has tons of it!!!).

For a previous post about dog food see here.  It will tell you which foods are best and why.  Keep in mind that these foods cost more, but you feed much less so the cost per month is actually the same or less… and they have less waste and is healthier… WIN / WIN!  READ IT!  You will be shocked to read what is in your dog food.  Look up the one you are feeding and read the laundry list of negatives.

Today I went to Rucker, a horse and pet supply store off of exit 17 in Cumming and bought her the Salmon Before Grain.  I got home with the bag of food as well as fresh tilapia and chicken in a Publix shopping bag.  She went NUTS!!!  She didn’t care at all that I had fresh fish or chicken.  She smelled and smelled that bag for at least 3 minutes.  Alisha finally just opened it and gave her some and she went crazy eating it LOL.  Check out the video below to see Envy loving her new food – and that was after she calmed down a bit!! 

This video was shot in HD so click HD for a better quality video.  It may load slower but looks so much better.

A shoutout – Rucker had a great price on this food!  If you are buying food and are looking for a great price, or want to use a much more nutritious dog food, go see them.  They deserve it!

For the ingredients for Before Grain click here.  You will be amazed!

The other day we were chilling in the living room and looked over to see her all curled up in the chair:

Envy, Alisha, Auggie (hard to see) and Courtney

On Saturday morning we headed over to Edwin’s office to take some pictures for GSA’s website.  Susan and Hershey (with AnnaMarie of course!)were our photographers while Joe, Edwin, Philip, Geni, Alisha, Kim, and I joked around the whole time.  It was pretty fun.  After our photo shoot we went to a hole in the wall restaurant in Alpharetta that Geni and Edwin swore by… there was good reason to.  This place had excellent food and bagels.  MMMMM  I want some now!!!  While were there we ran into a old friend of ours Chris.  It was really great to briefly catch up with him there. 

After eating lunch we headed back to our house where shortly after Mike and Aubree came over.  Aubree was going with Alisha to meet up with the ladies for Krystle’s bachelorette party while me and Mike stayed back to work on his motorcycle and grab some beers at Taco Mac.  At about 6:00 or so Bobby came over to the house as well to hang and then come to Taco Mac with us.  Shortly after Courtney called to let us know that she was on her way to our house.  We had her drop her new puppy off at our house before going out.  We all went up to Taco Mac for a few hours and eventually the ladies and Spencer met us up there as well.  They stuck around for a little while longer before heading off to grab some dessert and head to the house. 

Envy and Auggie Playing

The guys stuck around for a few more drinks and then also headed to my house.  We just chilled and talked before heading to bed.  It was great to have Courtney around again and her dog was SOOO cute!  Be sure to look at the photo gallery for more pictures of Courtney and Auggie!  That dog is SOOOOOOO CUTE!

I have setup her bed in our bathroom and an airmatress for me and I am staying here for at least a while to make sure that she does not end up throwing up on the carpet.  She has thrown up each time outside which is nice (as well as a first.. she never cares where she throws up) but being up here I may not have enough time to get her outside if it is coming.  I thought that she would have thrown up by now being that we have been up here for well over an hour, but thankfully she has not!  Hopefully she is over it and we can start to rebuild her stomach back up.

She had been sick for quite some time previously but fortunately we have had her back on a full raw diet for the last 2 months or more without any episodes of throwing up.  It has been so nice.  I really hope this was just a fluke and we are not on our way back down a rough path.  My guess is that it will all be fine and it was just a weird episode.  We shall see!  Wish us luck!

Saturday morning my dad came over to build some steps for Envy so that she doesnt have to jump on and off of our new bed.  Being that it is a lot higher than our old bed, we really dont want Envy to jump so much as it is pretty rough on her joints. 

My dad brought over some wood that was leftover from another project at his house and we began to plan how we were going to do the steps.  Let me tell you, this is a lot more complex that you would think.  It took us almost 5 hours to build the 3 steps that we built not including the time to apply the wood putty and spray paint them. 

They are great and turned out perfect.  After 5 coats of paint, there are parts that just will not take as well as the rest, but the flash makes them look worst than they really are.  All in all… they are PERFECT!  Envy hauls ass up and down them with ease!

Thanks a ton dad.  I know this was a lot more work than either of us expected, but it turned out great.

While eating a bone, Envy was surrounded by children playing and petting her as she chewed.  Paul was even crawling all around her acting like a dog himself