{"id":11125,"date":"2010-11-16T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2010-11-16T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:00:22","slug":"dog-bone-wishes-and-cat-chase-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/16\/dog-bone-wishes-and-cat-chase-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Bone Wishes and Cat Chase Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Momservation: <\/strong>Being a parent means birthday parties are thrown for children but not limited to pet dogs, cats, hamsters, fish\u2026<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Darby\u2019s birthday this weekend. We\u2019ll be having a party at the park with all her friends and lots of fun games. We\u2019ve already sent out the birthday invitations and received RSVPs from her three best friends: Bridget, Rosie and Ziggy. We got her way too many birthday presents and I\u2019ve made special cupcakes aware of everyone\u2019s diet restrictions.<\/p>\n

Sounds like a typical first birthday, right? Except technically Darby is seven \u2013 in dog years.<\/p>\n

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The guest of honor prior to getting cleaned up for her party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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That\u2019s right, throwing a birthday party for a dog. Complete with peanut butter and Milk Bone cupcakes and chew toy party favors.<\/p>\n

This is what you do when you have kids. You strip your trees of lemons and devoid your house of sugar for entrepreneurial dreams of lemonade stand riches; you sit in emergency rooms because you told them they can be anyone they want \u2013 including Superman and Spiderman; and you throw birthday parties for pets because you\u2019ve always insisted they are part of the family too.<\/p>\n

The way the kids have been talking and planning this event you would think it was MTV\u2019s My Super Sweet 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Invite to Darby's party by Whitney, 9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My daughter, Whitney, hand-made the invitations this weekend and we delivered them to Darby\u2019s favorite playmates:<\/p>\n

\u00a0her cousin Rosie the Shilo Sheppard,<\/p>\n

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Cousin Rosie and Darby<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Darby and buddy Ziggy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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her best Boxer friend\/boyfriend Ziggy, and her friend and neighbor Bridget the Boxer\/Rottweiler mix. Angus, the German Shorthair with boyfriend potential was left off the list after he bit her.<\/p>\n

My son, Logan, was in charge of gifts and games. He was mindful of Christmas coming up and didn\u2019t want to get her anything Santa might bring in her stocking like the As-Seen-On-TV Crazy Critter<\/a>, the no-stuffing toy. \u00a0At the park party the dogs are scheduled to play Chuckit! <\/a>Fetch, Treat Treasure Hunt, and Squeaker Toy Scramble where Logan turns himself into a human squeaker toy.<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oe2fwaxZ-Zw]<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a little embarrassed that more planning has gone into this party for our little Yellow Lab than for my son\u2019s birthday last month<\/a>. If it was up to me I would\u2019ve given\u00a0Darby an extra ten minutes on her walk and maybe a can of wet food thrown in with the dry.<\/p>\n

But what kind of mom would I be if one of my kids (fuzzy included) didn\u2019t get the birthday party they\u2019ve been dreaming of?<\/p>\n

I better tell Logan to pencil in a game of Cat Chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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