Heart Like a Dog

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

What the Hell Was That?

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I’m going to tell you three things straight up:

  1. This post is not about dogs, although they do have cameo roles in the story I’m about to tell you.
  2. I will leave you hanging at the end of this post. Only because:
  3. I will tell you what the hell it was in Follow-Up Friday’s post. There will be a prize (a bag of treats) for the person who guesses correctly just exactly, What the Hell it was. (Hang with me, you’ll understand shortly.)
Wait? WHAT? That's a treat right there! A Frankenwoofer by JONES!

I hope it doesn’t take her as long to tell this story as it took her to let me have this Jones Frankenwoofer.

Hubby was out of town this past weekend. He left on Thursday and returned Sunday evening. I never sleep GREAT when he’s gone, I always worry about someone breaking in. SO, I sleep with my pepper blaster on my nightstand and put a tea kettle in front of the door. (Don’t judge.) My thought is this, if someone tries to get in they will knock the tea kettle with the door, which will wake me up enough to shoot them in the face with my pepper blaster and then Delilah can eat them. Perfectly sensible, right?

Well Saturday night Sampson didn’t come to bed. Which meant I couldn’t booby trap my door. Despite this, I fell asleep and slept fairly well until about 2:30. Around that time my bladder intruded into my sleep suggesting I might want to get up and make a trip to the bathroom.

Sometimes this happens and I ignore the bladder, but not this night. This night I appeased my bladder and got up to empty it.

I climbed back in bed, bleary eyed, ready to get my sleep on. I flipped this way and turned that way to get comfortable and then I was startled by a flash just above my curtain. You know when you’re using the flash on your camera and you get that quick little flash, just before it blinds you? Yeah that one. Well that’s what it looked like.

You’re dreaming, I told myself staring at the window.

Flash!

There it was again.

I swiveled my head around to check the shelves on the other side of the room, thinking there might be something up there that was causing it.

Nothing.

Whip my head back around and stare intently at the windows.

Flash!

Shit, I think the aliens are here for our cavity probe, I whispered to Delilah, who never moved.

I got up and cautiously approached the window.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not one to just open my curtains and peer out into the night. I have this fear of something/someone peering back at me. Granted I live in a raised-ranch, but there is a small porch outside my room, it’s unlikely, but not inconceivable that someone who was determined COULD manage to get up on that porch. Which is why I hesitated briefly.

I crept up to the window and carefully grasped one side of each curtain and slowly put one eye to the crack and gently pulled.

Nothing. No eyes peering back at me (thank Dog!) No alien spaceship shining a light in my window or trying to attract my attention by flashing me.

I let my breath out, and climbed back in bed.

I stared again at the window.

Nothing.

You’re still half-asleep, I assured myself as I once again started to close my eyes.

And Flash! There it was again, but this time it was on the chair next to the nightstand.

I grabbed my cell phone, activating the flashlight quickly and trained the light on the chair.

I didn’t see anything.

Someone’s fucking with me, I thought to myself, trying to figure out if this was one of those times where I needed to vacate the house immediately. Because we all know in those damn horror movies, investigating this shit doesn’t work out for anyone but the homicidal maniac.

I closed the flashlight and lay there staring at the chair.

FLASH! There it was again.

Again I grabbed the cell phone and using the flashlight feature, I once again inspected the chair.

And that’s when I saw it.

And this is where I leave you.

Yeah, so this is the cliff hanger portion. What do you think I saw? Leave your answer in the comments and whoever guesses correctly will win a bag of treats. These treats are something I recently found, they are made locally and my guys love them.

If there is more than one correct guess, I will put all correct guesses into a drawing using random.org and pull a winner. All guesses must be received by 9:00 PM eastern standard time Thursday, July 14, 2016.

Friday, July 15, 2016 I will reveal the answer to what the hell was flashing in my bedroom.

You Make Me Laugh – July 10, 2016

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You make me laugh (or smile), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis that brings a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

Sampson and Delilah, when I drag two beds into work, so you will have a comfy place to rest, and you end up sleeping on the floor…

Sampson and Delilah

You make me laugh.

Backstory: Wednesday and Friday we had some trees taken down in the yard. I was unsure of how loud it was going to be in the house and whether people in the yard would bother the dogs, so, I got permission from my boss to bring the dogs to work with me.

I dragged two beds and a gate with me to work, along with their water bowl.

And then they both slept on the hard concrete floor.

Are your pups funny about where they sleep? Do you often wonder how comfortable they are?

Follow-Up Friday – July 8, 2016

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the post where I highlight reader’s comments, answer questions and generally just wrap up my week.

You Make Me Laugh – July 3, 2016

Chocolate Labrador

Meagan Maher said, “Ahh labs or slabs as they’re sometimes known when they overeat. They seem to have stomachs with bottomless pits.”

LOL I’ve never heard them referred to as ‘slabs’, but I do agree, she is a bottomless pit!

Emma said, “She sounds like my cat bro Bert. He never stops searching for food either.”

I’ve accepted that is who she is, but I still get sad thinking in might be what she went through before coming to us. Then again, she’s my first full-blooded lab, so I have no idea if it’s ‘normal’ or not!

Sue said, “LOL I’d take that as a sign she’s feeling better!”

She IS definitely feeling better. It was weird, she really had no signs until THAT morning when she peed then kept trying to pee. It came on SO fast.

Jan said, “She sounds like my little rescue Chihuahua who must have had some hungry days in her past and like Scarlet O’Hara vowed, “Ah will nevah be hungry again.””

Bah ha ha, yes, just yesterday I found her wearing the drapes…

Jan K said, “Too funny, but I love that it means she is not nervous at the vet’s office.”

She is NOT. She may pant a bit at times, but for the most part, she loves my vet, even when they draw blood or stick their finger in her bum. 

Cupcake said, “Purses are where moms hide GUM. I found some once, but Mom said the word, “Sorry Charlie. Dream on.””

I bet that was disappointing but gum can be very bad for dogs Cupcake. Mom was only thinking of you. 😉

2 Brown Dawgs said, “Hey that is a good thing. Can’t be too sick if thinking about food. 🙂”

She apparently wasn’t. LOL  It was definitely strange, but then again, that’s my Delilah. 🙂

Peyton said, “They do think about food a lot. When my wife rattles the cat bowls you need to get out of the way.”

So cats do it too? Delilah jumps backwards when I’m carrying her dish to her spot. Twice this week she’s knocked Sampson down. 🙁

Ding Dong the Walk is Done

Two houses is barely enough time for a guy to do his business.

Two houses is barely enough time for a guy to do his business.

Emma said, “Humans do so many things that we dogs pick up on! We learned to sit when Mom’s phone rings on a walk, all on our own. We read you humans so well, but you humans don’t read us very well. We don’t mind. We know who the smarter ones are 😉”

You guys really are smart! You’ve got us trained to walk and feed you. 😉

Taryn said, “We have a nice home theater down in the basement. The boys love going down there because they always get a chew to enjoy at the start of a movie. Then they go to sleep for the duration. So now when we show them the Redbox DVD they head down the basement stairs quick as can be!”

See how smart they are? 

2 Brown Dawgs asked, “Dogs are amazing. I wonder what would happen if you changed to ring again? Would he still know to turn around or is it the chime that tells him it is time?”

I’ve been watching him since that happened and I think it has more to do with me talking to him, then the chime, BUT I’ll keep watching and then I will change the tone to see what happens.

Lori said, “Good job, Sampson! Now YOU ring a bell to make Mommy bring you dinner!”

He doesn’t have to ring a bell. 🙂

Throwback Thursday – Lessons Learned

Siriusly, who doesn’t love a dog in an eye mask?

Chocolate Labrador in eye mask

Jen Gabbard said, “Some things are worth burning your tongue for indeed. We don’t have those remade oven pizzas very often, but when we do I burn my tongue every single time because apparently I can’t wait a couple minutes for it to cool down… You’d think we’d learn after the 7th time or so, but no, not me.”

Ha ha ha, I never learned those lessons either! 

Jan K said, ” I imagine that was the last time you stayed in your sister’s bedroom?…We have allowed company to sleep in our bed in the past, and the dogs are usually happy staying with us wherever we are. Though we always closed them in the room we were sleeping in so they didn’t really have a choice!…It is fun to look back at those old posts and finding things we’ve completely forgotten about!”

It WAS the last time. LOL My dogs are like yours, usually very content to be wherever we are. I’m not sure if it was actually us being in that room, or the fact that the dogs were in there that was the issue. But two of her dogs were not very happy about it. 

Throwback Thursday seems to be a hit. Here’s what some of you said.

Sue said, “LOL Love those photos of Delilah and Sampson catching up on their beauty sleep! And I love that you re-posted this.”

Thank you. I admit, some of the earlier stuff is just dribble, but there are some good ones too!

Taryn said, “I like TBT because I am a late-comer to your blog and missed the early ones. Please keep up the reminiscing!”

You got it!

Alexa88 said, “ditto what Taryn said.”

Thank you.

Monika and Sam said, “Since I’ve been only blogging for a couple years, seeing your early stuff makes me realize how much I missed out on from one of my favorite bloggers! Keep the oldies a-coming, Jodi-we love ’em, you and your pups! ”

Oh thank you, that is SO sweet. (I’m actually quite fond of you all as well.) 😉

Golden Labrador eye mask

Well that’s it for me folks, have a great weekend!

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