Nov 28 - Dec 4

Cooper needs serious therapy.

So I have told you how Cooper does not like to see dogs on the TV. The other day my daughter was watching a cartoon where there was a cartoon dog lying on the couch. The dog made no sounds just looked at the kid in the story. Cooper saw that and went nuts. I mean this dog has serious issues and I think that I need to find a dog shrink. I mean is he jealous of the other dogs? Or does he think these other dogs are a threat to his family. Or maybe Cooper is a spy and he is concerned these dogs will tell us the truth about his long lost past. You know maybe that is it, he has hidden his past and wants to keep it hidden. In any case he needs some real therapy and if any of you have any ideas, please pass those ideas along.

Folks, we need to raise the price of the Friday night dinners a couple of bucks. Apparently, a dog Shrink is a lot more then I thought.

Nov 21 - 27

So tonight we celebrated our practice Thanksgiving and when everyone left, my wife and I and the kids and Cooper were all pretty tired so we went upstairs to call it a night and watch TV. I turn it on and there it is, Firehouse Dog. Cooper couldn’t have been any happier. However, my wife wasn’t so happy.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We will be closed on Thursday so that our staff can enjoy time with their loved ones.

Nov 14 - 20

Remember the days when I used to complain about empty pineapple cans everywhere, well, I miss those days. Things have evolved to where now everything is coming up missing. You will go look for something in the pantry (obviously, it has sugar as an ingredient) and it just isn’t there.  I went looking for dried cranberries to make some stuffing the other night and just found an empty bag. Then I went looking for a granola bar for a snack and found a completely empty box. Last night I yelled at Cooper because he was eating something he shouldn’t have. Apparently someone had hidden a box of cookies under the couch and Cooper discovered them. I think I am just going to buy about 5 cases of pineapple and leave one can out a night. Life will just be so simple again.

Folks, business has been good and we seemed to have gotten our costs back in line, and that is in spite of the fact we stopped using road kill. Just kidding. I really don’t know how we got our food costs back in line because some food prices are still way out of reach. Anyway, from now until January 1st when we will have to give out raises we are going back to 10% discount to our email subscribers Monday thru Friday.

Thank you for sticking with us through some crazy times.

Nov 7 - 13

So I go upstairs to watch tv while my wife is still downstairs. I turn on the cable channels to find something I want to watch when I see a movie that Cooper would go nuts for. Now I know that Cooper does not like to see his 4 legged friends anywhere let alone tv, but I just had to do it, so I put on “ Hotel for Dogs”. There are scenes with dogs in cages and dogs running around the streets, and obviously they are all barking. Of course Cooper was very calm and just wanted to play with all his new friends. So I included a video of poor little Cooper just trying to catch and play with all those dogs.

Hey, did you know that Taylors is right in front of the train station in Loomis, and if you are standing at the register in the process of ordering when a train goes by, you get a free ice cream cone?

And no, you can not just sit there for 20 minutes pretending to order.