Raw dog food!!

So my friend Sarah introduced me to the idea of raw dog food. It never really occurred to me but my poor little fuzzy friends rely on me for the best nutrition and that hasn't really been my strong point. I have tried but with commercial food its really hard to offer great nutrition.

Today I made homemade raw dog food for my babies :)

Raw dog food is exactly that. 65% raw meat, 25% raw fruits and veggies and 10% raw animal organs.

So I went to the market this morning and picked up the meat I needed. I'm a vegetarian and know nothing about buying meet but after getting a few pointers from some friends I sort of knew what I was looking for. I bought 4 pounds of ground beef, 10 pounds of ground pork, and 2 pounds of chicken gizzard (ewwww). I also picked up some raw pork bones for the dogs to chew on but not part of the recipe. I established that for 1 week of food for all three dogs I would need a total of about 12 pounds of food. Here's my recipe.

5 pounds pork
2 pounds beef
1 pounds of gizzards (ewww)

For the veggies...
1 yam
3 carrots (my doggies love em)
Cup of parsley
1 green pepper
1 full head of baby romaine lettuce
2 cored apples

And a few extras....
one egg shell and all
half a cup of flax seed

I ground all of this up in the processor and voila... raw dog food for a week!!!



And my dogs LOVE it!

Tour update

We got an email today with a more updated list of tour dates. Check em out!

30-Mar Tue Sudbury - Jubilee Centre
31-Mar Wed Thunder Bay w/ The Hunters - Kilroy's
1-Apr Thu Winnipeg - TBA
2-Apr Fri Saskatoon - Walkers Night Club
3-Apr Sat Edmonton - DV8 Tavern
4-Apr Sun Peace River - TBA
5-Apr Mon Jasper (Pete's Pub)
6-Apr Tue Prince George - The Art Space
7-Apr Wed - TBA
8-Apr Thu Fraser Valley - tba with rebel spell
9-Apr Fri Vancouver - tba with rebel spell
10-Apr Sat Victoria - tba with rebel spell
11-Apr Sun Courtenay - tba with rebel spell
12-Apr Mon Surrey w/ Pickin' on Toddlers
13-Apr Tue Penticton - TBA
14-Apr Wed Calgary - Distillery/Anchor tba
15-Apr Thu Lethbridge - TBA
16-Apr Fri Regina - TBA
17-Apr Sat Kenora - Lake on the woods
18-Apr Sun Thunder Bay - TBA
20-Apr Tue Toronto - Bovine

The great tour van pimp-out!!

We are so looking forward to tour in April so we've been spending most of our free time making our van the most pimpin' tour ride ever!

We bought our 2003 HUGE Chevy Express 2500 super extended van in the summer for a mere $1500. It was the best investment we ever made because this thing is awesome!! Eventhough there are 790,000 kms on the beast it runs like a dream. It heats up super fast and evenly (unlike our previous vans that were absolutely freezing) and there is AC... that actually works! The luxury of this van even extends to a drivers side air bag. We are spoiled.

It came with a stock stereo with AM/FM radio. We replaced it with a new RADIO/CD/MP3/AUX/IPOD/USB stereo. Though it has all these incredible features we only really the use the USB because it rules. We bought an 8 gig USB stick and copied tons of our music to it MP3 style. You just plug the stick into the USB slot and voila you have hours and hours of music. It even displays the artist and song name. Amazing, as I've never had anything like this before!!

The van was used for its whole life before us as a heavy truck parts delivery truck (hence all the kms) so beside the two front seats the back was bear except for a ply wood floor and play wood walls. Here is a photo of what that looked like.



Over the past few days we painted the walls white



Installed carpet and installed the sweet fold-down-to-a-double-bed van seat we got from our last safari van. This is a feat because since we got the van we've been driving around with that seat just sort of rolling around in the back. (pictures to come)

We have some crazy plans for this van to make it the most comfortable long-haul vehicles that a punk band has ever toured in.

I'll keep you all updated on our progress.