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Brodie never misses an opportunity to share his golden thoughts

Obesity is huge…Golden Brodie gives the scoop

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Dang…did you know that obesity in dogs and cats is truly a problem…yeah…a life compromising situation for your pets?  Well, here you go…read up…information is power right?!…The Association for Pet Obesity is ready to help.

I’m a retriever…I love to eat…I could chow down on  anything…anytime of the day or night.  However, I am golden blessed with my peeps and vet who keep me on a healthy track…but darn…could I get a bacon strip now and then…or perhaps a piece of that pizza?!?! Not in my house…paws up for staying trim and healthy.

Golden mantra:  Reduce treats and increase exercise

Brodie the Golden Retriever

Golden retrieves good news lemons

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Sure…golden retrievers don’t drink lemonade but we do know a happy and golden undertaking when we see it.  The great state of Utah just legalized lemonade stands and other businesses run by kids.

lemonade sign
Come and get your fresh lemonade

Who would ever think that necessary?!..seems odd…but now Utah kiddies no longer need a $30 permit to exercise their entrepreneur spirit…earning money to so such things as shoveling snow and setting up a lemonade stand.  I’m clapping my paws together for these industrious kids…Utah’s state motto is “industry” and for those adults who passed a good golden rule law for “the Beehive State.”

Get ready to walk your dog to your neighborhood lemonade stand and support those golden kids.  Good on ya!

The dogwood native to Virginia. Both the state tree and state flowers of the Commonwealth of Virginia

Golden Brodie retrieves for you the Virginia State Flower and Tree

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I’m a content and people pleasing golden…I try anyway…and today I am bringing you a present…a virtual flower and tree that are near and dear to my Virginia born heart…the Dogwood.  The Dogwood is not only a treasured beauty but also the State tree and State flower for the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Some say that at one time the Dogwood bark was also used as a mange treatment for dogs.  A tree that keeps giving golden!

Golden Retriever Brodie shares an illuminating story about loyalty to The White House.
Golden Brodie retrieves Dogwood for you

The treat is all mine to enjoy the flowers of the Dogwood in the spring and then their colorful foliage change in the fall.   Love me some Dogwood.

 

Photo by PamelaWLucas, Oakton, VA  4/19/17

 

 

 

 

Austin Animal Center Shelter Doggy Easter Egg Hunt

Golden Brodie fetches Shelter Doggy Easter Egg Hunt

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Here you go and a golden big thanks to the Austin Animal Center…  for their annual Shelter Doggy Easter Egg Hunt.  It rocks for the shelter pups…they get to be outside…search for good treats in decorated eggs with a volunteer at their side.  Puppy seekers are welcomed to join in the fun and see the dogs in action and learn as much as they can about potential take home pets!  This is a win-win…

Happy Golden Easter to you!

Golden retrieve rolling in yellow flowers
Golden retrieve rolling in yellow flowers
Photo of a Eastern gray squirrel

Brodie brings a golden history nugget: Immigrant squirrel sponsored by Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin loved Eastern gray squirrels…loved them so much that during his diplomatic services (1770) in England he sent word to his wife Deborah to send some of the gray creatures across the pond to him.  He would then give them as gifts.

Portrait of founding fathers with Benjamin Franklin as the focal point along with George Washington
Portrait of founding fathers with Benjamin Franklin, representing Pennsylvania, as the focal point along with George Washington

Mungo was the treasured gray who met a rather viscous death…so loved was the furry gray that Mr. Franklin wrote a special elegy.

Golden squirrel love and paws up!

Oil painting of John Jay, First Supreme Court Justice appointed in 1789 along with one of his

Brodie sends a golden supreme nugget

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Seems appropriate to talk about the Supreme Court…given what’s happening on “The Hill”.

Well, get out of the moment and go back to 1789 and the appointment of the first Chief Justice to the Supreme Court.  Know who he was?  Hint…his last name is that of a rather large bird and his initials are JJ…got him now…John Jay.

The blue jay is native to North America.
The blue jay is native to North America.

A golden good try if you didn’t know and Paws Up if you did!!!!!

Corsican oleander

Golden Brodie admires beauty and its beast

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Heads up my human friends…these oleander plants bear such beauty…they are hearty in warm zones across the United States…and they are poisonous to humans, dogs, cats, horses, cattle and birds.

Enjoy the beauty and be aware…

White oleander flowers us close
Up close oleander beauty

Sharing a golden love of nature…paws up!

Golden retrieve rolling in yellow flowers

Golden Brodie barks about garden beauty and the beast

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Dogs see flowers differently than humans …dogs don’t know when a flower is poisonous…you humans do know however… because you can read about potential threats…some of us dogs see flowers as just another something to eat…so please read and use this credible dog source when planting your garden…when walking your dog…paws up for you folks that realize the beauty of nature also has potential danger for us puppies…a big golden thanks for keeping us safe.

Stylized black and white image of a barn and a horse being hand feed by a long-haired girl in a dress

Uncomplicated thoughts: The Gentle

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The gentle people exist and thrive… The Gentle Barn…they save and bring back to life abused animals…the animals then give hope and inspiration to children with the same stories.  Find Dudley and you’ll never forget him.

Golden…it’s all golden…

Golden Retriever Brodie
Golden Retriever Brodie
Martin van Buren standing portrait

Golden Brodie’s history nuggets: #8 POTUS & tigers, Oh My!

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Born in 1782 and died during the Civil War…Kinderhook, New York was his birthplace… of Dutch decent and the son of a tavern owner…made it through middle school…then studied law and passed the bar…had the nickname of “Red Fox of Kinderhook” because of his red flaming hair…served faithfully in Andrew Jackson’s cabinet…was a senator…had a one term presidency from 1837–1841…his presidency began with financial crisis which he inherited…banks failing…know as the “Panic of 1837″…a real run on bad luck for Martin Van Buren…aka Red Fox…8th President of the United States.

Tiger cubs in the wild
Tiger cubs in the wild

No dog paws in the Red Fox White House but Van Buren was given a pair of tiger cubs by the Sultan of Oman…the cubs stayed with Red for a short period of time and then off to the zoo they went.  Bet they were beauties…

Golden Brodie the Golden Retriever…digger of history nuggets… signing off…over and out…