Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby! :-)

What Happens On Sunday – Author’s Thought

There are times when like Sampson, I’d like to lie in my drink.  I’m thinking a gigantic Margarita.  I imagine it this way: rimming the pool with salt and just sitting or floating around with a gigantic straw in my mouth, licking the sides of the pool. LOL

Now that’s a cool and refreshing beverage!

Aliens Took My Dog – Author’s Note:

Since that day whenever Delilah is in the bathroom I put her in a down stay on the rug.  Some days she does better than others, but that’s ok.  She and I are both trying.

WTF Wednesday (A Day Late) – Author’s Note

Sorry for the snafu with this post.  Like I said, I wrote it, I tweaked it, I published it and then something didn’t feel right.  So I took it down, and I used the Whoo Hoo piece and made it the post.

After I took it down and read your comments I realized you all are right, it is my blog and I need to publish what I want, if you don’t want to read it that is your choice.  Besides we all know, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” 🙂

When I tried to repost it, it ended up posting behind Whoo Hoo Wednesday, so I trashed it yet again and apparently I trashed it correctly this time because I lost the one comment I had, which was from Frankie and Ernie verifying that yes, that is a Robin’s egg.

So on to the post itself, first I want to say, I was incorrect in saying the puppy died after 17 days.  The article did not specify the time frame, it said the puppy died days later.  I’m not sure where I got that 17 from.

If I’m being truthful here (which I strive to always be) I think the puppy story really did me in.  It’s so horrific and disgusting and 2 Brown Dawgs is right, the puppy shouldn’t have needed to suffer.

There are times even in the work of rescue where we have to realize we cannot save every single one.  It’s sad and it sucks, but it’s the truth.

I’ve been really sad the last couple of days and can’t quite put my finger on it.

More than likely it’s probably the damn menopause. Honest to God, I’ve been through a divorce, lost my father in an accident at 13, lost all of my grandparents by the time I was 25, raised three girls on a one income salary, went to college while raising three girls and I can’t handle menopause.

I hate being emotional and that puppy story made me emotional.  I’m not a person prone to violence, but I want to hurt that man.  My one thought is that when he gets to prison, which I’m pretty certain he will at some point, that he gets what he deserves because God knows the legal system in this country isn’t going to give it to him.

Whew, I’m done and climbing down from the soap box now.

I hope you had a great week.  Stay safe and have an enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend.

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  1. I just read your comments about the dogs being mistreated. No wonder you’re depressed. We just have to focus on the good things we hear about animals.

    Your comment about the giant Marguerita was hilarious. Can I come over to swim if I bring my own straw?

    • Thanks Big Al, all of these horrible stories remind me why I don’t care to watch or read the news, it’s very depressing. 🙁

      You sure can come over with your own straw, wouldn’t it be awesome!

  2. I try very hard to find upbeat stories, but so often the great stories get only local coverage and the disgusting stories about sick humans doing terrible things to dogs get more coverage. I have some wonderful people feeding me the local stories and I’m convinced that there are hundreds of times more good than bad in the world. The good just doesn’t sell like the evil does.

    • I’m so glad for you! No-one is feeding me the stories, these are the stories I come across as I’m trolling the internet or I see it posted on facebook.

      I do try and put one positive in there whenever I can. 🙂 Thank God I have your blog for the heartwarming stories!!

  3. Sometimes I read faster than my eyes, meaning that I eat words or add them where they don’t belong, same thing when I write, where I want to get is that the Margarita thing had me thinking for a minute, cuz I kept imagining Sampson doing it and somehow the whole story made little sense, I know, silly me. It wasn’t until I read AI’s comment that I realize what was about it.
    I don’t think that’s be a bad idea at all, hey if Ditta Von Teese performs her burlesque in a Martini Glass, I see nothing wrong with a Margarita swimming pool.

  4. Hi Jodi! I’m with the Brown Dogs- that puppy should not have had to suffer. And I’m also thinking that in theory that scale for humans would be cool, the truth is it would be some rich company that got to decide what was unacceptable. Some days I just have to accept that as long as humans are running the show, there won’t be fairness.

    • Thanks Rumpy…I agree it would be some rich person but too ba d there wasn’t a test. I feel sad saying this but I have no idea why they would even try to save that puppy.