Fur Baby Feasts Indulging Your Dog with Delectable Organic Cuisine

By Isabella Storyclaire

last updated November 20, 2024

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Love In Every Bite

In The Beginning for Love of Zoe

You might say that Zoe, our aging Dachshund, representsthe heart of our family. Loyal and full of boundlesslove, theres no end to what well do to keep her safe,happy and healthy.

Fur Baby Cookies were originally created toprovide Zoe with a natural, healthy alternativeto store-bought dog treats readily available,but full of preservatives and undesirableingredients.

A true hit, I wanted to share my passion withour Grand-dog, Daisy, a spunky, playful and lovingBull Terrier. Daisy, like other dogs with allergies,needed some extra TLC. Store-bought were simplyunsafe for her.

As a result, all Fur Baby Cookies are DaisyApproved Gluten and Wheat-Free, and madefrom the finest Organic and Superfood ingredientsavailable. Happiness is indeed sharing your love foryour dog one bite at a time.

Go Ahead, Call Your Dog Your Fur Baby

When our daughter was born, we found ourselves using the words puppy and baby interchangeably.

My husband and I both grew up in households with dogs, and now have a 35-pound black dog with a white chest named Scout. Wed say things like Oh, the puppy is hungry, meaning our infant, or The baby needs a walk, referring to the dog. Wed often call the dog our toddler. Of course, it caused confusion sometimes because wed have to clarify whether we mean the human baby or the four-footed one.

Id occasionally refer to the pediatricians office as the veterinary office by accident. Id joke that our approach to our daughters health was like our dogsis her energy good, is her nose cold, and does she have a happy disposition? OK, then shes fine. Ultimately, I think we both hoped that wed instill a love of dogs into our daughter.

But as our babythe Homo sapiens onegot older and more aware of the world, I notice some surprising similarities between her and our furry pup. Both of them possessed a tendency toward devious problem-solving, whether it was the dog climbing on a chair to access the garbage can more effectively or the baby figuring out how to escape from her playpen. Perhaps our mix-up of language was not just an affectation but rooted in something firmer. After all, Im not the only one who refers to their pet as their fur child or puts animal ears on a toddler. In fact, recent research suggests that in terms of cognition, dogs and children have a lot in common.

For starters, neither dogs nor small children can talk (at least not in full sentences). But you can explain things to them and ask them to do things as well, as Daphna Buchsbaum, director of both the Computational Cognitive Development Lab and the Canine Cognition Lab at Brown University, notes. Dogs also show attachment to their owners, as babies do with their parents, Buchsbaum explains; both expect social engagement from the caregiver, and both respond to eye contact.

Dogs can be surprisingly good judges of character. Buchsbaum was an author on a February study that explored how dogs were able to differentiate between humans who provide them with accurate data versus those who do not. In the study, a person (an informant), would point to a cup where a treat might be located. The incorrect informant would point to a cup without the treat, while the accurate informant would point to the true treat. The question was whether dogs could learn which informant would consistently share the treat location. The work found that dogs are in that case able to follow the more accurate person and that children, too, have the sophisticated ability to understand essentially who is a good person to learn from, Buchsbaum said.

Dogs also have a basic understanding of object specifics, Buchsbaum said, which means understanding object permanence and solidity (i.e., objects cannot pass through one another). As for children, depending on what measures you use, even very young infants (possibly newborns) have some expectations about how objects should behave, though this continues to develop in toddlerhood and beyond, she explained. From about 12 to 18 months old, children spend a lot of time experimenting with and learning about object properties (think about how much they love to throw things!), Buchsbaum told me via email.

Some dogs show a remarkable ability to understandlanguage.

Canines dont have opposable thumbs, but the way they learn about other things is similar to the way that young humans learn. Brian Hare, professor of cognitive neuroscience at Duke University, noted in an email interview that dogs can learn words through fast mapping, like children. So rather than being taught every single word, these dogs learn by a process of exclusion, he explained. For instance, say theres a red ball and a toy car on a table, and your child knows the word ball but not car. If you ask them to get the car, theyll grab the object on the table that is not a ball.

Some dogs show a remarkable ability to understand language. The border collie Chaser was renowned for knowing more than 1,000 words, according to NPR, which is about the average number of words a 3-year-old child knows. And researchers at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego are studying dogs that seem to be able to communicate concepts with the use of buttons that say words aloud, like more, scritches, now. Of course, dogs do not have full language skills like an understanding of grammar, Buchsbaum cautioned.

But its not all about cognition. As much as some people might cringe when a kidless person refers to their dog as their child, our love for our dogs is comparable to our love for our children in some senses. Evan MacLean, director of Arizona Canine Cognition Center, noted that domestication may have selected for juvenile characteristics of wolves. Wolf puppies tend to have relatively big eyes, short snouts, floppy earsfamiliar attributes found in many young and adult breeds of dogsthat adult wolves dont have. These traits make them appear forever immature. Dogs are like Peter Pan, MacLean said. They get older, but they never grow up, and theyre kind of playing a trick on our brain to see them as babies that need to be taken care of. A 2014 study published in PLOS One, for which researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital took brain scans of women looking at pictures of their children and dogs, found that both instances triggers similar emotional and brain responses.

If youre a parent (of any kind!) you may have felt the happy high that comes with staring at those big eyes and snuggly little body. Parents and their new babies have a physiological mechanism called the oxytocin loop to help them bond when babies are not very verbal and extremely labor-intensive, Hare said, Researchers have found that dogs can insert themselves into this oxytocin loop so that when a dog stares at their owner, and vice versa, the oxytocin in it creates a similar kind of oxytocin loop as parents have with their new babies.

The inherent similarities between dogs and children can even point to new research avenues. Buschbaum is planning on studying joint attention in dogs. Its considered an important part of toddler development, when a child will want to engage a second person around an object like a toy. For any dog owner, that behavior may sound really familiaryoure playing fetch, and your pup returns a ball to someone else to get them in on the fun. Ultimately, these studies help us better understand how cognition and intelligence work in general.

But of course, its important to remember that there are critical differences between dogs and humans. Buchsbaum pointed out that as humans, we undervalue how dogs might see the world differently from us. We see the world primarily through vision, like our primate relatives, but dogs rely more on scent.

Someday my child will hopefully learn how to speak 20,00035,000 words, compose essays, care for herself, and cook her own dinner. Our dog, on the other hand, will always rely on us for the rest of her life. In that sense, shes even more infantile than an infantshell always be our baby.

28 Paw-some Captions To Welcome Your New Puppy Into Your Home

Since you were little, running around the playground and racing scooters with your friends in your neighborhood, you've wanted to welcome a puppy into your life. You've wanted a friendly pug, a loyal German shepherd, or a playful Boston terrier who loves to go on adventures. So, when your roommate or SO texted you a message like, "Can we adopt a dog?" you were out-of-this-world excited. You instantly responded, "Um, yes!" Within a few days, you were on the road, going to pick up your fluff and bring them to their forever home. Now, you really need some new puppy announcement captions for welcoming home your fur baby on social media.

You may love watching their little tail wag at the glimpse of a treat, or taking selfies with them during a wild afternoon of fetch and making friends with other dogs at the park. If you're anything like me, you'll fall head over heels for the moments when your new puppy learns a new trick or sits at your feet when you're making dinner. You'll climb into bed, open your camera roll, and realize you've taken thousands of pictures of your pet. That means you have plenty of #content for social media and welcoming home your fur baby on Instagram. You just need to add one of these 28 captions for new puppies to your post, before tapping the share button.

1. "As far as I'm concerned, you are paw-fection."

2. "The love for my new puppy is fur real."

3. "Not to brag, but I think my new roommate is really cute."

4."The cutest member of the family."

5. "And so, the snuggles and treats begin."

6. "The one where we welcome a new puppy into our home."

7. "But first, let's snuggle on the couch."

8. "Little pup, big world."

9. "Warning: Cuteness overload up ahead."

10. "The happiest pupper you ever did see."

11. "Too dapper for words."

12. "Tell your dog my new puppy says hi."