A Canine Feast

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

And I don’t mean Christmas.

We love, and I mean LOVE Thanksgiving!

My girl human is no amateur to baking deliciousness for the canine types. In fact anytime a member of her family, both immediate and extended, see her in the kitchen they ask if it’s dog food or human food she’s making.  Luckily for her four legged children my human pretty much only steps foot in the kitchen to bake for us.

Thanksgiving pies have married the love of doing crazy dog things with the creativity my girl human lives for. The result…scrumptious! Honestly, I don’t care about what it looks like. Between you and me, she spends way too much time cutting out perfect little shapes and rolling out dough.  Does she think I care about aesthetics? I DO NOT. But hey whatever she needs to psych her up for days of baking. 

Here’s a photo of the pies the human made last year. Stay tuned to our instagram page next Thursday for this year’s edition.

The best thing about it (after eating my delicious food) is that we always bake a few extras to take to my doggie friends.  We don’t eat table scraps, we eat gourmet!

Do any of you have yummy thanksgiving traditions or recipes you'd like to share? 

Comment here or on our other social media outlets.  

Remember to check us out next week for a refresher on holiday hazards.

This Canine Community

Aside from the fact that we LOVE all things cute, cuddly, and canine; supporting friends and small business is dear to our hearts. One of the visions for this blog is to honestly get to know our readers and support them.

The body shop we’ve referenced on occasion is much more to us than just our last place of employment. Alpine Body Shop is our family owned and operated business for over 30years. I (the girl human) grew up there.

Everyday was "take our kids to work day"

This girl loves her tools

I remember putting our handprints in the concrete as the foundation was poured for the office. As I grew, so did my parents business. Anyone with self-employed parents can probably attest to the ownership and satisfaction we to take part in as a family.

Without writing an entire novel on the life of a child of self-starters, I’ll sum things up by saying that supporting local and small business means a lot to me.

You might be wondering what has to do with the Particular Puppy?  We’ve been fortunate enough to become acquainted with numerous small businesses through our dog community. We’ve often been able to give input and discuss with friends as they begin the journey of starting their own business.

As I watch and encourage those whom I’ve grown to care about, I realized that the community we’re a part of is a special one. We do so much more than post photos and “like” to display our support. We have evolved to become a different kind of family. We rejoice together in personal achievements, reaching milestones, birthdays are celebrated, losses are mourned and sorrow felt more deeply than I would have ever imagined. We share our dogmas…and this has been done through our dogs.

As humans we’ve created unique bonds through the act of displaying and sharing our animals’ lives.

That’s an amazing thing! We share so much together.

I realized that we know a lot about each other through the eyes of our beloved pets, but we don’t know the human behind it all on a personal level.

I think we can do so much more together by learning about the friends we’ve inadvertently made through our pets.

I’m excited to get to know the professions we have represented. It would be a dream come true to work with you professionally, brought together by our mutual passion!

I’m excited to show off the talents you have to offer, support you in your business endeavors, and simply get to know who you are as a person, not just the human behind the dogs we love.

Feature articles are underway. Send us an email to be in a feature post, we’d love the chance!

Secret Lab

The Knight Girls' Secret Lab 
aka: Home Office

 Gracie and I enter our office each morning at 6am, bright eyed and bushy tailed after a complete breakfast. Mmm...okay that might not be entirely truthful; sometimes we bring our breakfast to work with us. (And very occasionally we've been known to work from bed.)

Gracie spends the majority of her workday monitoring
 her girl human from under the desk. 

Working on her "Dream Board"

 Gracie: Warning that overtime might be approaching 

Perhaps the most important position Gracie holds is that of  CEA (Chief Executive Alarm).  She alerts for all important meetings. These include: play time, breakfast time, snack time, treat time, more bichon attention time,  "outside business meetings", and SO much more!

And we make this face a lot

This is what it looks like when we're having fun, and when we're overwhelmed, or frustrated, or really excited, or tired of Gracie's "alerts".

At the end of the day we love our job and our happy home office. Thanks for touring it with us!

Motor City

Buckle-up my friends we’re about to let you in on some super secret deal making information.

Today is short story 2 of 3 in our “Zoom Zoom” Follow-up mini series.

·      How deals are made in Motor City

We’ve been thrilled about creating this post since the day it actually happened!

You see, before Gracie had the plush life as an event dog she spent her days working at Alpine Body Shop in Ogden, Utah. If you can believe it, she was a shop dog in a family auto body repair business.

A trip to Michigan meant journeying to a Holy Car Mecca, and these Knight girls were fired up for the epic adventure to begin!! (Please excuse our over use of exclamation marks in this post. We’re just SO excited about cars!)

Gracie checking out the showroom models

We got down to business right away… Aunt Kristen was in the market for a new Jeep. We KNEW we had to accompany her if she was to do this car buying thing correctly. Yippee!!! Things were about to get exciting!

Gracie recommends all canines accompany their humans on such trips. It's critical that you can personally sniff out important features, this includes: ample room for causing mayhem, space to store ALL your toys when you travel, dual climate control, four wheel drive (for adventuring obviously), a media package (we can’t be expected to miss Animal Planet or Ceasar Milan when travelling) , and most importantly the right seat height to window viewing ratio.

Once a car has been found that meets all the canine criteria then we close this deal.

 "How does one close a deal?" You ask...

Gracie taking charge

Aunt Kristen for the Win!

 PINKY PROMISES!!!                   
Take note, fur friends, pinky promises indicate a highly lucrative deal and are obviously more legally binding than any paper agreement! As an expert contract negotiator Gracie insists on finalizing all contracts in the most secure fashion.  My friends, never forget the pinky promise!

Are any of you fellow Gear-heads, aka: Car Enthusiasts?  We’d love to know who you are!