Dad gives toddler cannabis

A super controversial topic, should marijuana be legalized?

A father in desperation gave his 2 year old son medical cannabis. An example of the risks parents take to save their children's lives: Their son Cash Hyde was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain tumour, he nearly died more times that they could count, doctors said he wouldn't make it past the night many times and then look what happened...

Because of the wonderful success with Cashy,  the whole family set up

http://www.cashhydefoundation.com

After writing this article I found out that

unfortunately little Cashy's tumour came back two years later, for full story please visit the foundation website above, but what you will read will be upsetting.

 Cashy's family soldier on helping other children with Cancer.

M x

Grabbing a Bargain to save Julia!

http://www.justgiving.com/SavingJulia

My Funny Bunny is doing various auctions on facebook to raise funds for saving Julia, the funds go straight to Spanish Stray Dogs which help many other dogs like Julia, so every penny goes to saving these helpless creatures like Rea, Rasha and Ronald.

Here are some of the auctions as of today, please do donate as much as possible!

If you want to donate just out of the goodness of your heart to save Julia and for nothing in return then please do so on her Just Giving page here or TEXT JULI60 £your amount to 70070.

 

Thank you so much M x

WIN an A4 Hand Drawn Portrait of your Pet!!

Win an A4 Hand Drawn Portrait of your Pet, worth a whopping £55!

We are raising funds for Spanish Stray Dogs' Julia! Read the full story here

To buy a raffle ticket please donate £3 directly to the charity on our Just Giving page here or click below

On your comment with your donation please say "PET PORTRAIT" & make sure you tick where it says to disclose your email to Monica (so I can email the winner!).

If you want to buy more than one ticket, just donate the total amount for the tickets you want and say how many entries eg. you donate £9 say "3 x PET PORTRAIT".
Thank you for your help and please share!

Monica x

Prize is kindly donated by www.petportraitsonline.co.uk ( https://www.facebook.com/CraftyLittleSewAndSo ) and it is their responsibility to provide the prize to the winner.

LETS SAVE JULIA THE PODENCO!

Julia is a Podenco who was found roaming the streets of Spain, having to fend for herself and eating scraps where she could find them. She has now been in the Spanish Stray Dogs shelter for almost 1 year & a half, which is longer than most.

Julia is a very shy dog, feels alone & sad at the shelter.

But she is one of the luckier ones, having no family and feeling alone isn't exactly lucky, but read further and you will find out why...

The Canary Islanders who hunt with podencos often treat their dogs terribly, keeping as many as fifteen in a small cage and feeding them irregularly and infrequently.

Hunting Dogs Squashed Into Cage www.occupyforanimals.org

At the end of hunting season many hunters abandon their animals, some even breaking their legs or gouging their eyes so they don't go back; some kill them outright, often in by hanging them. Females are not spayed and unwanted pups are usually killed via drowning, gunshots or just abandoned!

If you would like to ready more, please visit this page at occupyforanimals.org as some of the images I wanted to show you are too strong for children so I felt I couldn't put them on here, when you visit the link above please make sure that young children are not present.

A Starving Podenco Stray - www.occupyforanimals.org

What would a podenco choose? A life in Spain in a short chain,  existing in the burning sun,  with hardly any food or water and abused, or a forever home abroad?
He only hunts for 12 to 25 days...whereas adopted to a life with love, care and attention, food every day, nice walks and its own soft and warm bed.

I am looking to raise £350 to save Julia from the shelter and let her blossom into her real self by being in a loving home as part of the family :) 

The whole family is waiting for her... we just need to raise the funds for her so she can be on her way to her new and better life!

The £350 includes transport by road from Spain to the UK, the cost of castration/spay, passport, blood tests to screen for diseases, all vaccinations, microchip, de worm and de flea treatment.
I have just called my local vets and they quoted me £114 for spaying a bitch her size! So £350 for all that for Julia is well worth to save her! 

Please help us getting Julia to her new loving home.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

So please dig deep and donate now!



RAFFLES & AUCTIONS TO HELP RAISE FUNDS:

WIN an A4 Hand Drawn Portrait of your Pet here!

AUCTIONS by My Funny Bunny of children's and adults items!

If we are able to raise more than the £350 Julia needs then it will go towards the care of the other animals at the shelter, so nothing will be wasted.

Thank you for reading and please share.

Monica xx

PS. My grandad used to feed so many strays in Portugal. I miss him so much. x

Runalyzer Heart Rate Monitor Sport Pack Review

2013 is here and everyone is setting their New Years resolutions to improve their health.Most of us need a little push to make it happen, and unfortunately we can't all afford to get ourselves a personal trainer to keep us motivated and on track.

A French company called Runware designed a small attachment to connect to your i-devices which most of us have! Alla Kazam! Here is your personal trainer, said the genie!

Runalyzer is the first heart rate meter to connect to the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad and it is also approved by Apple. The attachment itself is very small and connects to the 30pin port of your iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad. It even has a voice coach to keep you motivated while busy with your workout.

Inside the sport pack you get the heart rate meter, the chest strap, heart rate sensor and also a armband. Set up is very easy and you can use the runware software that you get from the App Store or you can choose from a selection of compatible apps. This makes it very versatile indeed. What I really like about this product is that if you are in the gym on the running or cross trainer machine the sensor gets picked up and displays on the machine's interface without the need of you hanging on to the bars to get your heart rate.The actual chest strap could have been more comfortable, but then again I'm not used to having a strap all the way around my chest!

Pros:

• Setup is very easy.
• Armband very comfortable.
• Other apps can be used for this.

Cons:

• Chest strap could have been a little bit more on the comfortable side, not that bad though.

Gadget Dad rating: 8.5/10

Till next time! Gadget Dad

 

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Dairy Free Goodies (Food) in the UK

I love cows.
I'm not vegetarian but we don't eat a lot of meat in the house, I don't believe we should eat meat at every meal and when we do it should be a third of what is on our plate. I think people eat way too much meat and animals are not treated respectfully most of the time.

But anyway, that is beside the point and that would be a whole full post!

There are 4 people in our household and unfortunately 3 cannot have milk!

Gadget Dad started not having milk after we found out BooBoo was Dairy intolerant and his skin got 99.9% better and his migraines reduced from at least 3 times a week to once every so often.
BooBoo had really bad eczema once she started eating & drinking since about 6 months (she was a very good eater!) and lots of chest infections, a continuously bright green runny nose and asthma. One day we decided to try a week of dairy free diet and amazingly everything disappeared!!
Funny Bunny also had the runny nose, the asthma and hayfever. That week of a dairy free diet made everything better for him too!

So basically I am the only one that can have dairy without dire consequences, but as I am the only one and the kids are very young, now practically everything that enters the house is dairy free!
I am now even more psycho than I originally was about checking labels and it is really frustrating that most of the stuff the kids love has milk in it... even frankfurters!!! Who knew?!

So here it is, a list of foods that Dairy Intolerant people can eat. Please note that some people are just LACTOSE INTOLERANT and some cannot have anything with cows milk in it at all as they are intolerant to milk proteins in general, even the Lactose Free milk products like Lactofree, these people are DAIRY INTOLERANT like my BooBoo.

DAIRY FREE PRODUCT LIST:
Please note this will be added to over time and you can contribute too by leaving us a comment!

• Jammie Dodgers Biscuits
• Choccie Dodgers Biscuits
• Kellog's Coco Pops Choc'n'Roll Cereal
• Weetabix Chocolate Cereal
• Green & Black's Hot Chocolate Drink
• Fox's Party Rings Biscuits (original and chocolate)
• Tesco Everyday Value Jaffa Cakes 
• Soreen Banana Fruit Loaf
• Tesco Value Bourbon Biscuits
• Hellman's Original Mayonnaise
• Pom Bear Salted Potato Snacks (Red Packet)
• Kelloggs Coco Rocks Cereal
• Kellogs Moons & Stars
• Frosted Wheats
• Raisin Wheats
• Mini Max Originals
• Kellog's Cornflakes (normal/chocolate)
• Kellog's Rice Krispies (normal/multigrain)
• Kellog's Fruit Loops
• Nestle Cheerios (normal/honey/chocolate)
• Nestle Shreddies (normal/frosted/honey/chocolate/choco orange)
• Weetabix Original Cereal
• Jus Rol bake at home pastry, croissants, pain au chocolat and garlic bread
• Tesco's Oaties Biscuits
• Asda Smart Price Apple Pies
• Tesco Value Fruit Cake
• Hovis Granary Wholemeal Bread
• Hovis Best of Both Bread (1 slice provides almost the whole RDA of calcium for a child!)
• Mr Kipling Apple & Blackcurrant Pies

So see, you don't have to spend a lot more going to the 'Free From' aisle all the time! :)

Please do check the labels before you buy as we are not responsible for the information above causing harm as manufacturers can change things at any time, etc. This list is to help you save time and find new products you might have otherwise disregarded!

Some of the products say on the label "may contain milk" but don't have any milk products on the ingredients list, please read the label and use your own judgement as some people are severely allergic and in that case should not take a chance on those products.

Enjoy!
M x

PS. A lot of these were provided by the mummies over at CMPA Support Group on Facebook, an awesome group for parents of children with allergies!