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16 Animals Are Watching You: Last Day to Bid on Julia’s Pet Food Paintings

Published September 27, 2026

I, Bernie Harberts, did not use generative AI to write or illustrate this article. Spell check and grammar check, yes. AI, no.

Happy Sunday morning! A guinea hen named Freezy would look good on your wall. Today’s your last chance to bid on Julia’s Pet Food paintings, and every dollar goes to a local animal shelter.

Meet Freezy the guinea hen. She’s named after the frozen banana recipe of the same name in *Pet Food*.

All 16 of the Pet Food paintings. Each painting is 18″ x 20″ plus the handbuilt oak barn wood frame.

Happy Valley Filling Station diners enjoying pizza and chatting under the kind gaze of the Pet Food menagerie.

About Pet Food

Julia painted these for her cookbook Pet Food: 16 Dessert Recipes to Make You Smile and I framed them in oak barn wood. Each animal is named after one of the desserts in the book. They’ve been hanging at Happy Valley Filling Station and today is the last day of the showing.

*Pet Food*. You can buy a copy at Happy Valley Filling Station or buy the ebook on Amazon and enjoy it right now.

All 16 farm animal paintings are for sale with a starting bid of $300. If you’re an animal lover looking for a bright painting for your home, or hunting for a spectacular Christmas gift for the animal lover on your list, this is your chance.

My favorite thing about these paintings is the eyes. Each animal looks at you wherever you’re standing in the room, so you’ll never feel alone. There’ll always be a friendly border collie, donkey or goat keeping you company. I’ve included close-ups of each painting. Click through the series to find your favorite but beware, you might come home with a bull. That would be Key Lime.

Here’s the whole menagerie up close. Keep an eye on Key Lime. He’s keeping an eye on you.

Key Lime the bull. Consider yourself warned.

Meet Freezy, Rhubarb, Chocolate Chip, Cake and Angel in Person Animal

Better yet, drop by Happy Valley Filling Station today and let them look you in the eye. It’s the last time they’ll all hang together before heading off to their new homes.

Happy Valley Filling Station was recently voted the best new brewery in North Carolina. We’re proud to call the partners Jesse Plaster, Angela Postino and Tegan Foster dear friends. (Happy Valley, North Carolina)

Happy Valley Filling Station
1275 NC Hwy 268
Lenoir, NC 28645

Place Your Bid

Bidding closes tonight (Sunday) at midnight. Email the animal’s name and your bid to [email protected]. Starting bid is $300 and every dollar goes to a local animal shelter.

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