Haha! How cool is that? Now what kid wouldn’t just love that? I bet they didn’t get any end-of-the-school-year certificates like that!

And then once you have your super groovy Poopcertificate, you can meet the Experts at the Minnesota Zoo. I’ve actually embedded the video right here on my blog for you:

You can visit the Minnesota Zoo Channel on YouTube and see all kinds of cool animal videos!

Have fun earning your Poopcertificate!!

Here’s the toy that just might help them out!

They call it KongTIME and it dispenses four different Kong toys at different times throughout the day. And you can, of course, fill the Kong toys with yummy goodness for your dogs!

I could have used this recently myself – my parents were here visiting and we were taking them out for the day sightseeing. As we left the house, I grabbed three dog biscuits and plopped them down in different places through the house. I couldn’t make them too hidden, or in rooms or areas I knew he wouldn’t go, but, I hoped it would take him at least a little while to discover each of them. Ha! You try ‘hiding’ biscuits from a nosy 120 pound dog! He found them all before we even left the driveway! So I know we could benefit from one of these,too.

My only reservation would be to wonder of what material the dispenser itself is made. The reason that Kong toys are so popular is because they are indestructible. And I think I know a dog or two, not mentioning any names here (*ahem* Jake *cough* Randy) who would love to rip the dispenser to shreds, if possible! And then they could have those darn Kong toys whenever they wanted!

This mama bookworm loves this 120lb. beast:

And I just bet my sweet beast would totally love this dog house:

It’s called The Barn, and I think it is so cute! It is from a very cool online pet supplies store, called Internet Pet Emporium.

I don’t know, though, my humongous baby might rather have something like this:

It’s called The Mansion, and might just fit ‘His Hugeness’ better, don’t you think? Heehee!

This store is so cool, though – they have all kinds of wonderful pet supplies! They have a really nice set of stairs for small dogs that I was telling my mother-in-law about, because, she bought a flimsy, crummy, plastic set. And I was telling her how these look really nice in the house, even matching your decor!

Internet Pet Emporium is definitely a fun place to shop for our beloved creatures! Ever since I first saw it a couple weeks ago, I have been telling everyone about it!

GO READ A BOOK!

I really need to go shopping for some pet supplies for him, too, now that it is getting warm again. We need a flea and heartworm treatment, that will hopefully protect him from all of these Alabama ticks – he got so many last summer! It was crazy! We were popping them off of him right and left! And we need some new doggy shampoo – he gets very dirty out here! He has so much fun doing it, though!

I sometimes wonder if we didn’t move all the way out here just for him, because he completely loves it out here! He is totally ‘in his element’!

GO READ A BOOK!