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It has been a while since I did a post on celebrity pets. Since I am looking at a pair of Taylor Swift tickets to a concert, I’ll start off with her. Taylor has 3 pets that I know of, a cat named Indie, a min pin named Bug (that’s her and Bug in the photo) and she also has a Doberman but I don’t know the name of that one.

Next up is Cher. I would picture her with a little dog like Paris Hilton has but Cher comes from a different background and had a different kind of pet. Cher has a miniature horse. How about Betty White? A cat maybe? Betty has dogs and is a staunch animal welfare advocate. She is often pictured with dogs for photo shoots to raise money for shelters all over the USA. She has also no fear about handling lizards and other exotic pets.

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Do you love your pet well enough to take them to work with you? Can you take them to work? Of course the owner of a company or a family run business not only has the privilege to do so, they often are required to. Ranchers that have working dogs, may or may not be considered pets, but either way they are often more valuable than the highest pedigreed dog in the area. Those dogs are workers. What about pets that just lay around your feet all day while you work? Are they working pets? I would say yes. Those pets often provide a person a way to avoid work related stress. I cannot tell you how many times my pets have removed stress from my day almost instantly after they have nuzzled me or bugged me until I pet them.

Maybe if more companies would allow pets in their work place then worker stress would be eliminated. I am aware that the food industry would be off limits to my idea but those that work in offices would be perfect candidates. There would be less stressful engineers, sales people and accounting jobs. Who knows, maybe it would cut down on violence in the work place.

An interesting idea and I wonder if it has been put into practice already in more rural communities. Maybe it has since most work place violence has been occurring in larger metropolitan areas.

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There is no secret that economic times are tight. If there are any ways that we can cut some corners to save a little cash we find them. For example, I use to buy a complete horse feed for my senior horse. The price of that feed sky rocketed from $11 a 50# bag to $27 for a 40# bag in about 6 months. There was no way that my old guy could continue on that diet. What I did is find a substitute feed that worked for him and kept him in good condition. I ended up mixing 2 bags of feed to get the right ratio that he needed. In the long run my new mixture costs about $9 for 50#. I ended up saving more than the original cost of the feed I was giving him over 7 months prior to that.

I also found my neighbor cutting costs in her barn. Instead of using convectional lighting during the early morning hours when she feeds, she turns on a string of C7 led christmas lights that she put up. The light level is bright enough to see her horses and to feed them. Another neighbor is using the same type of lighting on his front deck year round instead of porch lights. What he did was to put the lights on the floor of the deck so he could see the steps.

Other neighbors have been fencing in more of their property and letting their livestock graze in more areas. That is to cut back on the amount of hay they have been normally buying since a ton of hay now cost over $140.

Everyone I know digs for pet food coupons like they were gold. I have not been able to find many of those since I don’t get magazines nor newspapers anymore.

Saving money…..it’s a lot like hard work.o

All the Creatures