- Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today I thought it would be fun
to share some of my puppy must haves.
Now you guys know we have three dogs of our own.
Between us and all of our kids, there are seven dogs,
and we do fostering for a local rescue,
and over the years have found quite a little list
of things that are like our tried and true,
very favorite things.
So I'm gonna show some of those to you today.
You can use 'em for Christmas gifting
you can use 'em for birthday gifting, whatever,
or just buy 'em for your own pup.
So let's get started.
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This is Ellie.
She's our latest, our newest puppy.
She's only four months old, apparently tired this morning.
And then we have, this is Ash.
He's our smaller one.
He's our middle child.
Our middle puppy, huh baby?
Yeah.
And then let me find the old man.
Here he is, hi Brady.
Here's our old guy.
And while I have Brady here,
first thing I wanna show you is these diapers.
So Brady's a little bit old,
sometimes he has a hard time not peeing in the house.
But also you can have female dogs
that still have periods or are in heat,
and these diapers work great for all of the above.
They just Velcro on around their waist.
We actually have some that are cuter colors than this,
they don't have the patterns on them.
I'll show you.
Okay, so here are some of the other colors
we have that are just a little more generic color.
We did try this style,
which is more just a band style
that doesn't go hooked on the tail.
It works okay,
but I like the ones that go over the tail better.
They just stay on a little easier.
Other things that I love that are in the laundry room.
Now we discovered this one not that long ago,
but it's says Science Diet.
It's actually dog food, but it's called oral care.
The only thing with it, it's their huge kibble.
I'll show you.
So I don't use them as regular dog food.
Like, I feed him regular kibble,
all the dogs, and these are more just like treats.
You can see they're quite large.
My dogs love them.
Like if you saw my dogs right now,
they're all like, attention,
because they're so good.
But the reason they're oral care
is it's supposed to help scratch their teeth,
you know and kind of help clean off the tartar.
They improve their oral hygiene, which is great.
Okay, next up I wanna show you guys dog food things.
Some dog food holders that I love,
and then dog food bowls and feeders.
This was a more recent find.
You can see this container,
it can collapse and it comes in multiple sizes.
So I got the one that I think holds 30 pounds of dog food,
but it has a flip lid, which I love.
And then I just leave my dog scoop in there.
So if I wanna feed 'em, I just scoop some food out,
drop it in the bowl.
We can just close it,
and it's all sealed up nice and tight.
And if you want to dump a new bag in,
you just pop the lid off and dump it in.
Makes it nice and easy.
It slides under my cabinets,
and just kind of keeps the dog food
smell out of my laundry room.
Before I discovered that dog food holder,
I tried another one and it worked okay,
but it was just kind of your
generic block with a twisty lid,
and I didn't think that it was quite as easy to use,
or as effective.
And I like that this one can collapse.
So if you need it to be different sizes or shapes,
that works too.
Okay, for dog food bowls,
Ash is gonna demo for us right here.
My favorite are these Neater Feeders.
This is Ellie's, but here's why.
It's because if your dogs drip water
while they're eating or spill food,
it falls here and that just goes down into the base.
And so it kind of keeps everything
really neat and tidy on your floor.
And then they're just really easy to rinse and clean.
On Ellie, you guys haven't seen one of these dog food bowls.
Those are called slower feeders.
Takes the dogs a little longer to work the food
out around the edges instead of just the whole bowl,
and so it slows 'em down and forces them
to just eat a little tiny bit slower,
which I love 'cause they feel full faster.
Ash is over there.
He doesn't need the slow feeder, so.
Thanks for the demo, Ellie.
Thank you for the demo.
Another little dog treat that's good
for their teeth are these little Greenies.
Greenies!
And it's just a little dog snack
and treat that we give 'em once in a while,
but in the process of chewing on 'em,
again, it's scraping and cleaning,
and helping with the oral hygiene on their teeth.
At least it helps keep things down,
and all that dog breath.
Brady specifically that gets
the tear goober and stains on this fur.
So these are my favorite, Angel Eyes.
High, high,
high recommendations on Amazon.
They're little like chewies for pups
to help with the tear staining,
if your puppy gets those problematic areas.
Okay, some of my favorites for
dog walks are this puppy bowl.
They actually have a smaller version.
I can't find mine right now,
but I like that one better than
this one because it fits in my bag.
Push button like this,
and you can see the water comes out,
and then it becomes a little dog bowl,
so they can just drink out of it
and you can just dump it out,
lock it again, and then it won't spill.
See?
Another one coming that's actually a little cuter than this,
but this is my little dog walking bag.
So it kind of reminds me of like a cross body Lululemon.
Gives me my hands free,
which I also like if I'm walking all my dogs.
So inside there's a little pocket
that holds the roll of dog bags right here.
There's plenty of room for your phone, or snack,
granola bar, or the dog's water.
This is nice just for walks,
and easy to grab when I'm running out the door.
Okay, next thing I want to show you.
Their beds.
I don't know why,
again, we've tried several dog beds over the years,
and these beds are by far the favorite.
Everyone I tell 'em about says their dogs love them.
It's their favorites too.
So let me show you.
You can just get 'em on Amazon.
I'll put all the links to everything
in the description box below.
But this is essentially what they look like.
They look like this.
They're really soft, they're nice and fluffy.
You can just throw 'em in the washing
machine when they get dirty.
But my dogs love them.
Ellie's is over here on the floor,
and hers is a little darker color and of course bigger,
but that is the dog bed.
I don't even know if they have a specific name.
I will just link where I get them.
They come all vacuum packed on Amazon,
ship in like two days.
Here's Ellie in one,
but this is the tiny one that doesn't fit her,
but she still loves it.
Hey Ellie.
Okay, this next thing is something Camry told me about too.
When she would have to leave for class
and put Hiccup in a crate,
he would cry and be sad.
So she found this little toy looks like this
and inside it has this little heart, like this.
And you put a battery in and you push this heart.
(heart thumping)
Can you hear that?
Sounds like a heartbeat.
It also gets a little bit warm.
It over time kind of warms up a little.
And I don't know if you can,
you can't feel this obviously through the camera,
but it vibrates a little.
Kind of like if you were holding something
that was pulsing in your hands,
that's what it feels like.
So you put this back in the little puppy toy,
and then it kind of feels like a little living puppy,
'cause he gets warm, he has a little heartbeat,
it vibrates a little bit, you can feel beating.
And so she would throw this in the crate with Hiccup,
and he would never cry when this
little guy was in the crate.
So if you have dogs that have anxiety,
or certain holidays make them nervous,
or if you put them in the laundry room
when you leave the house,
these little toys might be your favorite thing ever.
I know Ellie loves it, especially when she was little,
and still, when we have to put her in the laundry room,
we throw this guy in there,
and we never have an issue with her
clawing at the door or scratching.
Okay, so this next one I'm giving to my kids for Christmas.
So I'm showing you before I even show them.
I got all of the dogs new collars, just on Amazon.
I found these cute colors, right?
They're like one inch thick and kind of like that.
That's not that exciting.
I got all the puppies new tags so that they
have little tags for their collars.
On the back of them I put the funniest thing.
I'll show you.
Here's Finnigan's little puppy tag.
See it says, please call my mom.
She's ugly crying.
Which is so true.
Anyway, I like having the tags on 'em,
so it's just like a quick,
easy way for people if they find 'em,
for some reason if they get out or they get lost,
to call you quickly and effectively.
But that means that you're dependent
on somebody calling you,
and on the off chance the dog doesn't find another human,
or the human a real poop and doesn't call you,
I wanted a way to be able to find my dog.
So I found these this year.
They look like this and they have little screws,
and they go onto the collars,
so you're gonna, you know what I mean?
Pierce the collar.
And then you put an air tag in them.
So they're totally waterproof.
A hundred percent can't, you know,
the air tag just sits in there,
screw 'em tight shut.
Dogs can't get off, they're not gonna fall off,
anything like that,
and then you can track your pups.
As far as toys go, I don't have specific favorites,
except that I love, love,
love the company Bark.
I just think they're freaking funny.
This is called the F bomb.
You can see why, it looks like the letter F,
and it's good because this kind of feels like rope,
and you can throw it and the dogs love it.
Anyway, I've bought this toy like,
not even kidding you,
probably 10 times and sent it to people,
because I think it's freaking hilarious.
If you have dog toys that you're obsessed with,
we have so many, but you know,
none that I'm like freaking out over.
Some that are funny.
But if you have some that you're obsessed with,
leave a comment.
I wanna know what they are.
Next up, this.
Not Here spray.
So this is training your dog where not to urinate,
specifically when they're puppy training.
This is just, if you read the ingredient list,
again, it's just a purified water,
glycerin, clove oil,
peppermint oil, thyme oil.
So it just has a really strong scent to it.
So you can spritz this on your carpets or on your floors.
It's not gonna hurt them, or at least in theory.
I'm not in everybody's house, guys.
So, you know,
doesn't hurt my carpet, my floors,
and reminds the dogs not here.
If you have dogs that are urinating
in certain areas over and over and over,
I also have one like this, but it's for chewing.
So different smells.
But you can spray it on,
and it's supposed to help remind them not to chew.
Like if they're chewing on your wood
table leg or something like that,
you can spray it on.
And I'll link that down below as well.
My last favorites are this bell.
(bell ringing)
Oh, all the dogs come running.
Did I ring the bell?
Ellie, get the bell.
Get the bell!
See if she'll do it first.
Get it, get the bell.
Ellie, bell!
Bell, good girl.
And that means I wanna go outside.
You wanna go outside?
Okay, good girl.
What's nice about the bell is we have one by each door,
and basically we're training her,
if you wanna go outside,
instead of barking or whining you just ring the bell,
and that lets us know you need to go outside.
So nice and easy for those of us that don't have dog doors,
or a more convenient method of
getting them in and out regularly.
So the bells help.
Now when they wanna come inside
and their paws might be dirty
from running around in all the mud,
I have this guy.
I'll show you what this does.
So it's a little kind of plastic container,
and inside you can see it's like silicone nobbies.
And what you do is take it, and it has water in it.
This is actually empty right now, but in theory,
lets see if I can get one of the puppies up here.
Sit, thank you.
Take their paw, and you just pop it in.
Come here!
And you just pop it in, and you go like this.
And their paw comes out all nice and clean,
'cause the scrubbies got it.
When the scrubbies get really nasty,
you just take the lid off, take this out,
and it all unhooks, and you can shake it out,
or rinse it and wash it,
and then just pop it back in.
And it helps collect all of the mud and dirt off their feet.
Or you can cheat, like me,
when I don't wanna do that,
and just stick their paws in the pool.
Well, that's it.
I think that's all the ones I can think of right now.
I actually think it's gonna be really interesting.
I'm gonna do a poll today or tomorrow on Instagram,
and see what you guys recommend
as your favorites for puppy stuff.
And then I might have to do a part two.
You know I love my pups.
These are some of our favorites.
Just get your brains thinking,
or at least expose you or show you
some of the things that are available
if you have the same issues or similar issues
with your dogs that I've had in the past.
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Bye guys.
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