Came across The Dog Food Project via a comment left on a past entry where I was talking about the food issues I was having with Nala a while back.
After going through a bunch of pages, I’m impressed with the quality of information on the site. With all the dog food recalls in the news lately, there are a lot of people struggling with what to feed their dogs, lots of rabid BARF/RAW advocates pushing raw feeding as the only real food choice and generally a lot of confusion.
There are several pages that talk about and define the various ingredients you’ll find listed in dog foods, what ingredients to look for and what to avoid and common dog food misconceptions.
There’s a lot of good information on the site, without pushing any particular feeding method. It should be a good read for any pet owners out there who want to know what they’re feeding their pets.
The Dog Food Project
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More new projects
The Nuclear Medicine Supervisor wants to look at putting the procedure manual online in something more searchable than just a collection of Word documents. I’ve proposed a a few different possibilities, including wiki, CMS and blog format. Now I have to create some demos to show off and let them pick which one they want to go with.
After proposing to the other CSCLRC board members that we consider using a CMS for the website, I’ve been ‘volunteered’ to take over as the group’s webmaster. Funny how things like that happen. I suppose I should have expected it. Should be an interesting task to take on though.
Laptop hard drive update
It’s been a few weeks and the new hard drive in the wife’s laptop still seems to be working fine. Did I mention hardware really drives me nuts sometimes?
So after putting the new hard drive into the wife’s laptop and having it not being recognized for some reason, I popped it into my work laptop where it worked just fine. Formatted and installed Windows, got it booting and software installed. Then I stuck the drive back into the wife’s laptop where by some strange circumstance, worked and booted up perfectly. Never could figure out why the drive wasn’t recognized the first time. Flaky connection? Bad connection? Who knows.
The old drive suddenly decided to work again once I had it in an external drive enclosure ($10 from Newegg.com). Why, I have no idea. It wouldn’t work in the wife’s laptop and wouldn’t work in mine either. All I did was stick it into the external enclosure, connect it to the USB port and presto, one 60 GB D: drive on the system. So thankfully, instead of having to lose all that data all the wife’s stuff was recoverable and copied onto the new drive.
Not sure what magic spells or incantations I stumbled on during the process (aside from a few curse words), but now I have a 60 GB external drive that I’ll be able to wipe clean and use as a potential backup device.
Spring Flinging with the Labs
Yesterday turned out to be a great day for CSCLRC’s Spring Fling match. Not too hot, nice breeze to keep most of the bugs away and plenty of dogs.
The event was open to all dogs, not just labs, so we had a few show up, like this Portuguese water dog (one of two)
a few Great Danes
and even a pair of Staffies
There was even an Australian Shepherd and a Saluki out to join in the fun.
Naturally there were Labs, and where there are Labs, there are Lab puppies!
The biggest part of the match was conformation, but since it was a B match, it’s less about showing off the best dog and more about getting dogs used to the ring and having fun.
Actually, it’s all about having fun, so there was also a costume contest to wrap things up (along with other fun events like fastest biscuit eating, dress up and ball and spoon races)
