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 Smile – May 29, 2016

Cupcake said, “Of course! Nose-level is friend-level. That’s where my friends brushed against the shrubs when they walked by. Good job, S. Very thorough.”

Never thought of that one Cupcake, thanks!

Taryn said, “LOL! Nose-level for a corgi is still where the big dogs peed!”

LOL yes, I can see that.

Sand Spring Chesapeakes said, “Gambler would have to rub his back up and down that type of shrub.”

Why does he rub? Neither one of my guys does that.

Kim at Life at Golden Pines said, “I wonder what they’re smelling too, but I most wonder what the heck they’re rolling in too! 🙂”

Ugh, the rolling is the worst! Sometimes they are rolling in something that I cannot see, but upon closer inspection, it’s a dead worm or something equally gross.

Julie said, “I never know what Cocoa might be sniffing. I am always worried that she is going to stick her nose in the weeds and come out with something!!”

Yes! Or when they stick their nose down a hole you KNOW a critter lives in!

Monika and Sam said, “Oh those are penthouse pee-mails as opposed to garden level ones. ღ”

Ha ha ha, penthouse pee-mails!

2 Brown Dawgs said, “Could be anything. Maybe a bird perched there one time.”

Never thought of that one either!

Ten Things I Love About Delilah

Emma said, “We are a hot mess around here, real dirt magnets with out of control furs! ”

Um, Emma I’ve seen you in real life, I highly doubt it. 🙂

Jan K said, “There is just something special about a dog who loves so deeply, especially when you had to earn that love over time, I think it makes it just that much deeper.”

What a beautiful way of say that Jan, I have to agree with you.

Sue said, “I adore that first photo of Delilah – so sleek and beautiful I want to reach through the screen to touch her.”

I don’t blame you, she really is a stunner.

Blueberry’s Human said, “Now…about that sewer grate…Delilah is no fool. She knows that beneath those grates, lives a psychotic clown. Enough said.”

Ba ha ha, that’s what I used to tell my kids. 😉

All Things Collie said, ” A couple weeks ago we were taking the girls for a walk. Holly didn’t notice the storm drain, stepped on the grate, and her paw and leg slid down inside. She panicked and couldn’t get up, so I panicked and in my rush to free her I threw my keys aside. What I didn’t notice, but my daughter did, was that my keys slid right into the sewer! ”

Oh my gosh, that would panick me too! I know my dog would flip as well. I’m assuming she was okay? So glad your daughter was there to help with the keys too!

Julie said, “This is awesome. I am going to write one for Cocoa soon.”

I can’t wait to read it.

The DADO Report For May 2016

Honestly you guys, I could make this blog all DADO all the time and we’d never run out of stuff to talk about. 🙁

Emma said, “We did have a dog come off after us. The dumb owners had to go inside to put on a coat before they could come get their dog. I was in shock by that dumb move! The dog snarked at sweet Bailie and I wanted to grab it and show who’s boss. Finally stupid, over grown sized son, came and got his dog. No sorry, no nothing except looks at mom like she was the dumb one.”

There is nothing worse than someone whose dog is an asshole and they don’t apologize for it. I sometimes wonder if people don’t put any thought into what COULD happen.

Sue said, “You know those mimes floating around about how every dog needs a home and every home needs a dog? Well, this is just one small reason every home should not have a dog. The older I get the more amazed I am a some people’s stupidity.”

I have to agree with you there. I’ve heard so many people say they want a do and I think to myself, “Please God, no.”

2 Brown Dawgs said, “Hmm it sounds like Roxy has not been trained properly. First our dogs will not blast through our efence collar or no, working or not. Right now ours is on the blink was well, but the dogs still go out. They know the boundary because they have been trained. Next, Roxy’s recall sounds like it does not exist. This is my biggest beef with dog owners today. They just do not want to reinforce that recall which in my mind should be a non-negotiable. Also one reason we do not train a recall with treats because as you saw, treats are not an incentive when there is something more important.”

I can almost guarantee you she hasn’t been trained. As you know I’m not a fan of the e-fence or collar to begin with. Where I live (IMO) people don’t use the fence properly. None of the dogs are ever supervised, so they have no way of knowing whether the dog is staying in the yard or not, some of them don’t wear their collars all the time, they give the dog full range of their yard and put the fence line right close to the street, AND they don’t train their dogs NOT to run pell mell at dogs walking past. I’ve started taking video of the dogs charging us and one of these days, I’m going to splice them all into one.

Mary Hone said, “Ugh, stupid people. Now that we are in the very heart of DADO land, off leash dogs are everywhere. I hate it. The other day a giant male pitbull almost, thankfully only almost, came after us. And them 5 minutes later a woman stopped in her car to ask me if I had seen 2 irish wolfhounds. She saw my look of fear and gave the usual….They’re friendly, don’t worry. Needless to say I headed back right away and thankfully no one got bit that day.”

I love that. Maybe YOUR dog is friendly, but you have no idea if mine is and you have no way of predicting if something might spook your dog and make their behavior change. Not to mention the harm that can come to an off-leash dog. What if it ingested something? They wouldn’t even be able to tell their vet WHAT it was. SMH

Jan K said, “Phew, I’m just glad that no one got hurt here. It seems that woman’s son is smarter than she is! I suppose that’s the problem when you use an e-fence as your trainer and don’t do any actual training yourself… My dogs are not bomb proof when it comes to recall. That’s why they don’t leave their yard off leash. People just need to use common sense, and know their dogs.”

Exactly! But common sense isn’t common…

Taryn said, “My May DADO report is an ugly one. I was walking Jimmy by himself because he needs a lot more exercise the old man Wilson. We were almost home, about a block and a half away. I am on the sidewalk (on leash of course) and see a man headed toward me walking a very large and fat Doodle. I had never seen him before but wasn’t too worried. Doodles are usually nice if rather bouncy. I did notice he was walking the dog on several leashes tied together and he was letting it drag. Because Jimmy is not always nice, he is not allowed to greet other dogs. I ducked down into the street to walk on the far side of a parked minivan. Before I knew it, and completely unexpectedly, the Doodle flies around the front of the minivan and attacks Jimmy! The man has no control due to the loose leash and doesn’t even stop walking! I had to pull his huge dog off of my cowering dog! In an effort to shorten this comment, I’ll just say we got into quite a yelling match. We were so loud, John heard us from a block and a half away and rode his bike over to see what was up. Then he got in a yelling match as well! The guy was quite an a-hole and never even asked if Jimmy was OK. Fortunately there were no puncture wounds, but I’m sure the altercation did nothing to improve Jimmy’s attitude toward other dogs!”

Ugh, Taryn, that is just awful. Could you have called animal control? I programmed Animal Control into my phone and from now on, if I run into an asshole, I’m using the number. Don’t you just want to slap people like that?

Monika and Sam said, “For the record, as soon as a dog realizes those e-fences only sting for a second (or don’t when they aren’t operational), you can pretty much count on them blasting through like it was nothing.”

I have heard that myself and also that dogs will willing “take the sting” to leave their yards, but I have no personal experience with that so I can’t say with certainty. I do know with all of the e-fences around here, I’ve only seen three incidents (and they were all this year!) of dogs leaving their yards. There was the big dog that followed Delilah and me one morning and I told him to get back in his yard, then the dog next door to him accidentally went too far and popped out of her yard but quickly popped back in, and then this recent one. The funny thing is they are all on the same street, on the same side and practically next door to one another.

Jen Gabbard said, “I laughed way too hard the other day when I was reading an article about construction. Turns out the word dado is some sort of groove or something and I corrected them out loud and said “No, that’s not what a dado is” …You may be a pet blogger if that’s your first reaction to seeing dado 🙂

Oh my God! I laughed so hard at this! Yes a pet blogger has a different definition of a DADO!

Well, that’s it for me friends, have a fabulous weekend!