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Grandma Was Baking Cookies, and Someone Left a Clue on the End of His Nose

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The kitchen counter is dusted with flour, a metal bowl of cookie dough sits ready with a wooden spoon, and a few rolled dough balls wait in a row beside a bowl of brown eggs. Grandma Loretta, in a sunny yellow cardigan, leans over her work with a warm, amused smile, because her assistant has already gotten into trouble. Cotton has pushed his face right up to the edge of the counter, and the tip of his black nose is dusted white with flour. He gazes up at the bowl with complete innocence. A rolling pin, a stack of dish towels and a potted plant fill the counter behind them.

Baking days call for keeping dogs out of the ingredients. Raw cookie dough can contain raw eggs and raw flour, both of which may carry bacteria, and doughs made with yeast can expand in a dog's stomach and be very dangerous. Chocolate, raisins and macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs, and xylitol, a sugar substitute in some recipes, is extremely harmful even in small amounts. A light dusting of flour on the nose is harmless, but it's a good reminder to keep bowls back from the counter's edge. If your dog gets into something risky, call your vet right away.

Cotton won't be getting any cookies, but he's earned a dog biscuit for his excellent supervising. And that floury little nose is easily the cutest thing in the kitchen today.

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