Today in celebration of If Pets Had Thumbs Day, Sadie is playing with her trumpet squeaky toy. She already knows she can make beautiful music with her squeaky toys, so Sadie thinks that if she had thumbs she could be a pretty good musician.

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Today is the first official day of Summer! To celebrate the day Sadie has dug up her ice cream cone squeaky toy. I’m guessing that’s her not so subtle hint that the time of year has come to start buying her doggie ice cream. I think I’ll be saving the ice cream for special occasions, but to mark the beginning of Summer there may be a homemade pupsicle or two in Sadie’s near future.

Sadie and her rubber ducky smiling in sepia!

This post is part of the Caturday Art blog hop hosted by Athena Cat Goddess.

This post is also part of the Sepia Saturday blog hop hosted by Ruckus the Eskie and Earl’s World.

Sadie is hanging out with some of her squeaky toy friends. She doesn’t actually play with these kinds of toys – not like her beloved squeaky soccer balls, but she does enjoy having these toys around. They work as the occasional pillow and they fit nicely in your mouth when you want to bring a toy when greeting a friend.

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I found out this week that the pet store is discontinuing Sadie’s absolute favorite toy. Remember the squeaky basketball from my Squeaky Obsession posts? Sadie absolutely adores these squeaky balls, but only when they can squeak. Once she breaks the squeaker, the ball is dead to her and she goes looking for a new one. So to keep my pup happy, I wanted to have a stash of balls to give her a new one whenever she needs it.

After looking everywhere I could think of online and failing to find those specific balls anywhere, I decided to try the local store. The closest pet store did not have any and could only confirm that the item was discontinued and they wouldn’t be getting any more. So I drove to the next closet pet store, ten minutes away. After searching the entire store, I noticed a clearance bin by the register. Success! I found one package of Sadie’s favorite squeaky balls left. I immediately bought them and left the store. I was extremely happy to find them, but I knew Sadie would go through them pretty quickly. If I left it up to her, Sadie would probably destroy all four of the balls in that pack in one day. So thinking about my baby’s happiness and being an indulgent dog mom, I decided to drive to the third and final pet store, a half hour away. I looked through the whole store and began to worry I had made the trip for no reason. Then I got to the clearance bin by the cash register. The cashier asked if I needed help and I told her I was just contemplating how to tackle the bin to get to the package of balls I could see below four feet of other clearance merchandise. Since no one else was in the store, two employees came over to dig with me. We ended up finding six packages of Sadie’s precious squeaky balls. They all thought it was adorable that I wanted to buy every one I could find for my one little dog.

Pleased with my efforts, I went home in possession of a whopping 28 new squeaky balls. I just have to make sure I ration them carefully, but this stash should keep Sadie happy for quite some time.

This post is part of the Thoughtless Thursday blog hop hosted by Ruckus the Eskie and Love is Being Owned By a Husky.

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