What are your opinions of these kitten foods?

I am looking for some advise/opinions on kitten foods. I have a couple brands in mind that I’ll list on here that I am interested in, but I am also open to any suggestions! Here is the list:
1. Chicken Soup for the Kitten Lover’s Soul
2. Fromm’s Kitten Gold
3. Innova Kitten/Innova EVO
4. Merrick Before Grain (I’m not sure if they make a kitten food, but still would like thought on it, please)
5. Blue Buffalo kitten foods (Spa, Wilderness, and Longevity)
6. Orijen (I just recently heard about this brand, so I’m hoping to find out more about it)
7. Solid Gold Indigo Moon
8. Wellness Core and Wellness Kitten Health
9. California Natural
As you can see I’m into the organic/holistic/grain free type foods, but I’m not stuck on any particular one on the list and am very open to other brands if anyone has any good suggestions.
In the last 2 to 3 years I really started learning about pet foods all because of a cat I adopted about 2 years ago whose coat wasn’t in the best of conditions, was a picky eater, and had a sensitive stomach. I put her on Blue Buffalo and in a couple weeks noticed a huge difference in her coat, digestion, and just overall well being. I want to give my pets the best I can so they can live a happy and healthy life!

John and Kate + 8 Grocery Bill…?

I was watching an older episode (like when the kids were still 2 years old) of John and Kat + 8 and they were talking about grocery shopping. Kate said that she spends only on average $150 a week on grocery’s. She said that sometimes it is higher because she buys stuff like bread on sale for the whole month. She also said that she buys mostly organic and healthy food (In other words they don’t live off hot dogs). She also said that she clips coupons and that she shops the sales.

Well we are a family of 4 and we spend around $150 a week for groceries too. We also clip coupons when we can, shop the sales, and mostly we buy the store brand items. So how come she can spend only $150 a week for a family of 10 and we spend $150 a week for a family of 4?? It is not like we have steak for dinner every week…
Our grocery bill includes everything, meat, paper products, health products… Also we make most of our own food….
Yeah we spend at least $10 on soda a week
Oh yeah we also shop mostly at Walmart and this store in my area Save – A – Lot!!

Did you see that mishill 0bama for each tomato she purchased had a carbon footprint of several tons?

Hi-Ho, the Derry-O

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Downtown Farmers Market Draws D.C. Crowd
First lady Michelle Obama was on hand to support the opening of a farmers market that closed Vermont Avenue between H and Eye Streets NW to traffic Thursday afternoon.

By Dana Milbank
Friday, September 18, 2009
Let’s say you’re preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don’t have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?

Here’s how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.
Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. “Now it’s time to buy some food,” she told several hundred people who came to watch. “Let’s shop!”

Cowbells were rung. Somebody put a lei of marigolds around Obama’s neck. The first lady picked up a straw basket and headed for the “Farm at Sunnyside” tent, where she loaded up with organic Asian pears, cherry tomatoes, multicolored potatoes, free-range eggs and, yes, two bunches of Tuscan kale. She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine.

There’s nothing like the simple pleasures of a farm stand to return us to our agrarian roots.

The first lady had encouraged Freshfarm Markets, the group that runs popular farmers markets in Dupont Circle and elsewhere, to set up near the White House, and she helped get the approvals to shut down Vermont Avenue during rush hour on Thursdays. But the result was quite the opposite of a quaint farmers market. Considering all the logistics, each tomato she purchased had a carbon footprint of several tons.

The promotion of organic and locally grown food, though an admirable cause, is a risky one for the Obamas, because there’s a fine line between promoting healthful eating and sounding like a snob. The president, when he was a candidate in 2007, got in trouble in Iowa when he asked a crowd, “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?” Iowans didn’t have a Whole Foods.

For that reason, it’s probably just as well that the first lady didn’t stop by the Endless Summer Harvest tent yesterday. The Virginia farm had a sign offering “tender baby arugula” — hydroponically grown, pesticide free — and $5 for four ounces, which is $20 a pound.

Obama, in her brief speech to the vendors and patrons, handled the affordability issue by pointing out that people who pay with food stamps would get double the coupon value at the market. Even then, though, it’s hard to imagine somebody using food stamps to buy what the market offered: $19 bison steak from Gunpowder Bison, organic dandelion greens for $12 per pound from Blueberry Hill Vegetables, the Piedmont Reserve cheese from Everson Dairy at $29 a pound. Rounding out the potential shopping cart: $4 for a piece of “walnut dacquoise” from the Praline Bakery, $9 for a jumbo crab cake at Chris’s Marketplace, $8 for a loaf of cranberry-walnut bread and $32 for a bolt of yarn.

The first lady said the market would particularly appeal to federal employees in nearby buildings to “pick up some good stuff for dinner.” Yet even they might think twice about spending $3 for a pint of potatoes when potatoes are on sale for 40 cents a pound at Giant. They could get nearly five dozen eggs at Giant for the $5 Obama spent for her dozen.

But whatever the socioeconomics, there can be no doubt that Obama brought some serious attention to her cause. Hundreds of people crowded the market entrance on I Street as police directed pedestrians to alternative subway entrances. Hundreds braved a light rain and gave a hearty cheer when Obama and her entourage took the stage. “I can’t imagine there’s been a day in the history of our country when people have been more excited about farmers markets,” Mayor Adrian Fenty, Obama’s warm-up act, told the crowd.

The first lady, in gray slacks and blue sweater, marveled that the people were “so pumped up” despite the rain. “I have never seen so many people so excited about fruits and vegetables!” she said. (Must be the tender baby arugula.)

She spoke of the global reach of her cause: “The first thing world leaders, prime ministers, kings, queens ask me about is the White House garden. And then they ask about Bo.”

She spoke of the fuel fed to the world’s most powerful man: “I’ve learned that when my family eats fresh food, healthy food, that it really aff

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Does the ADA exempt service dogs that work off leash form local leash laws?

I work with a service dog that works off leash. I am Aspergeric, a form of mild autism, who works with a physiological service dog. The dog has been trained over several years to function as a service dog. What the dog does is provide feed back and interaction which helps me control secondary characteristics of the Aspergers. Essentially by maintaining control of the dog I can control allot of characteristics that make it difficult to interact with people. The dog lets me know when I am acting inappropriately. The dog travels with me all the time including when I work, socialize, and recreate.

The problem I have now is that I was ticketed for violating a leash law and told to leave a mountain bike riding area in Boulder County, Colorado, because the Officer claimed that dogs were prohibited from even being in the cars in the park’s parking area even service dogs. Essentially I had let the dog out of the car to exercise some. In the past the dog would accompany me on rides but he is getting too old for this now. The dog still wants to accompany me on the rides and will bark if I just leave him in the car (The car is specially insulated and the windows stay down so there is no danger the dog will overheat in the car.) . What I found I could do, was to ride a short way with the dog tiring some and he will not bark when I left in the car for my ride. It was when I was doing this that I got ticketed for a Leash Law violation and ordered to leave the park by a Boulder County Sheriff Officer. The Officer did this even after I showed him the paper work from my physiologist showing that my dog was a service dog and I explained what I was doing.

I know that the ADA allows me to have the dog in the park. The problem I have now is the leash law. So far I have found only one out state case that states that a service dog that is working and is under control is not a dog at large. Does anybody have any idea how the ADA allows for leash law exemption?

Does the ADA exempt service dogs that work off leash form local leash laws?

I work with a service dog that works off leash. I am Aspergeric, a form of mild autism, who works with a physiological service dog. The dog has been trained over several years to function as a service dog. What the dog does is provide feed back and interaction which helps me control secondary characteristics of the Aspergers. Essentially by maintaining control of the dog I can control allot of characteristics that make it difficult to interact with people. The dog lets me know when I am acting inappropriately. The dog travels with me all the time including when I work, socialize, and recreate.

The problem I have now is that I was ticketed for violating a leash law and told to leave a mountain bike riding area in Boulder County, Colorado, because the Officer claimed that dogs were prohibited from even being in the cars in the park’s parking area even service dogs. Essentially I had let the dog out of the car to exercise some. In the past the dog would accompany me on rides but he is getting too old for this now. The dog still wants to accompany me on the rides and will bark if I just leave him in the car (The car is specially insulated and the windows stay down so there is no danger the dog will overheat in the car.) . What I found I could do, was to ride a short way with the dog tiring some and he will not bark when I left in the car for my ride. It was when I was doing this that I got ticketed for a Leash Law violation and ordered to leave the park by a Boulder County Sheriff Officer. The Officer did this even after I showed him the paper work from my physiologist showing that my dog was a service dog and I explained what I was doing.

I know that the ADA allows me to have the dog in the park. The problem I have now is the leash law. So far I have found only one out state case that states that a service dog that is working and is under control is not a dog at large. Does anybody have any idea how the ADA allows for leash law exemption?
I have a court ruling that the dog is a service dog. In court it was demonstrated the dog is fully trained and that he did provide services. Documentation was provide that the dog falls under the category of physiological service dog. The dog performed these tasks off leash which he is trained to do. I am not in a wheel chair and I have the dog at work with me and in all other areas of my life. Allot of the time the dog can’t be on a leash like in the case when I am riding a bike. Right now the issue is documentation of ADA exemption or Colorado Law on working dogs exemption to leash law. What I need is actual cites of law or case law that I can present in court that I can use my service dog (Remember the court has already rule that the dog is a service dog.) off leash. I already know that there is an exemption in my case, but I need to know what I need to present to the judge.