Abstract: A animal product filled chew toy for dogs comprises a relatively hard hollow casing. A relatively soft animal product filling that includes a preservative, a gelling agent, an animal fat and a meat is contained within the hollow casing. The toy also preferably includes a mold inhibitor.

Abstract: A multifunction peripheral periodically stores its status information and a Host periodically receives this status information and stores it in a database in the Host. A technician may select some or all of the information to be provided to the technician on the occurrence of a number of trigger conditions. The technician may set the trigger conditions from any of the reportable status conditions. The Host automatically will connect to a remote monitoring computer designated by the technician and provide the selected information. The Host can also save the selected information to a removable storage medium.