Heart Like a Dog

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

Whoo Hoo Wednesday

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I really struggled with this WTF post

Shelter operator charged with 10 years in prison for animal cruelty and theft, Ft. Pierce, FL

Seriously this one should probably go in the Whoo Hoo section, I mean really the piece of crap is in jail and I’m sure she’s getting her bully beat down in the there.

I do feel so very sad for the person who entrusted her with their money.  Isn’t there some kind of trust that administers that type of thing?

Finally, after sitting at my computer for half an hour, drifting over to facebook, typing, erasing….lather, rinse, repeat I decided to bag the WTF post in favor of some inspiration instead.

Whoo Hoo

Victim of His Own Myth: Leo

Someone posted the link to this on facebook, I was drawn to read it and was so impressed with John Sibley and his approach to Leo, and the fact that he actually took the time to give this dog a chance when no-one else would.

I think it’s a great reinforcement that sometimes all a certain animal needs is the right person to make a difference in their lives.

It reminded me of a cat my mom had, named Stevie.  He was a big, orange striped tiger that had been de-clawed by his previous owner.  He was a very shy cat when he came to live with my mom and initially spent a good portion of his time upstairs in a spare room.

After two or three days of going over and not seeing him I finally sought him out.  I found him in the room curled up in a chair.  I walked over, knelt down and wrapped my arms around him, giving him a big old kiss on his noggin.

After that anytime I went over and he heard my voice he would come running from wherever he was to greet me.

A few days after I brought Sampson home he got out of the house and never came back.  We searched the neighborhood calling and calling for him and even put an ad in the paper, but we never found him.  I do hope someone picked him up and gave him a good home.  He deserved it.

I loved that cat.

London the 2-legged pit bull, Vancouver

Talk about inspiration, this little guy puts a smile on my face, just goes to show if you have a heart like a dog, you can do anything.

Heart Like A Dog

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As most of you know, I’ve been looking to take the next step with my blog.  For me that means moving it from the free WordPress account to a self-hosted blog.  My struggle has been what to name the new blog.

The problem is that the wordpress account was www.jodistone.wordpress.com.  Normally speaking you wouldn’t want to change the blog name, just remove the wordpress and make the account a dot.com.

As I’ve mentioned here, there are already at least two authors using the name Jodi Stone, one of which has the website with the dot.com, which meant that I can’t use my name.

I could have gone with, Life With Sampson and Delilah but my plan is to have an official website for all my writings, and some of those writings may not be about Sampson and Delilah.

For months I’ve been popping around your blogs saying, “Just Be The Dog.”

I really did love that saying, but as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts there is already a website with a similar name.

After months of agonizing and indecision, I saw a saying posted on facebook one day and it ended with Heart Like A Dog.  I knew immediately that was the perfect name for my blog.

When I think of a dog’s heart, I think of courage, faith, determination, persistence, generosity, wisdom, devotion, strength and love.  These are just some of the traits I admire in my dogs.

To give of myself to others like my dogs give to me, is a worthy goal in my opinion.

Yes, it’s true, I really want to be more like my dogs.

Great!  I found a blog name.  Then the real agonizing began, I didn’t want to ‘launch’ it until it was perfect. The problem is I know very little about marketing and designing websites and that’s where some of my amazing blog friends came to my rescue.

Without these incredible women, this blog would not be here today.

So I’d like to say a huge thank you to:

Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes who spent a rainy (at least it was rainy here) Sunday afternoon listening to me whine chatting with me on facebook and who was the one who came up with the tagline, The Life, Loves and Writings of Jodi Stone.  (I think it’s something in the name.) 😉

Julie Melfi (yes, Cali’s mom) from The Daily Dog Blog, who transferred the blog from the free wordpress account to the bluehost server, and has answered many ‘how do I do this’ e-mails.  Maybe you didn’t know this about Julie, but besides writing a daily blog, she’s also a website designer.  You can check her out at legupcreative.com.

And last, but certainly not least Kari Pike from Houndgirl who designed the entire website.  That header, she whipped it up one afternoon.  I can tell you here and now, her child is extremely lucky because Kari has the patience of a saint.  I’m a bit of a perfectionist and she never said a bad thing or told me to shut my pie hole and stop e-mailing her.

These ladies all come highly recommended by me.

Jodi, Julie and Kari, thank you from the bottom of my heart. xoxo

(If I did this right, you were re-directed to this site automatically.  I’m not sure how it works as far as subscribing to the blog or how it is affected in your blog readers.  Please take a moment to add my feed to your readers.  I’ll be working on the subscribe button this week.)

Please bear with me as I figure out the social media buttons and how to subscribe features. 🙂

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