Heart Like a Dog

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

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

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Welcome to This ‘N That Thursday, hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie.

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

 

Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match

Do you remember the awesome Pet Blogger Gift Exchange from last year that was created and hosted by Something Wagging This Way Comes?

If your new to blogging, or just plain haven’t heard about it (do you live under a rock?)  You can read all about last year’s exchange here.

Well guess what?  It’s back again!!  And I for one am super excited, what a great opportunity to get to know a fellow blogger and share a little holiday love!

I’m not even kidding

You may remember that last year Heart Like a Dog was paired with a cat blog.

A. Cat. Blog.

Once I got over the shock of it, I found out that Cokie the Cat was totally awesome and his mom Kristin is awesome too!

Sadly Cokie passed earlier this year but Kristin continues to blog, in fact she’s got a brand new site up.  I’m not even kidding.  No really, that’s the name of her site, I’m not even kidding. It’s a fun site, with giveaways, gift ideas and a whole lot more.  Pop on over and check it out!

Our Christmas Card

You may recall I had computer issues earlier this year.  I had some pictures on the old computer that I thought would be perfect for our Christmas card.  Except when I finally got around to retrieving them, I’m not exactly sure it will work.

Chimney

What do you think, is it worth putting this in PicMonkey and seeing if I can enhance it a little?

Follow-Up Friday

Tomorrow is Friday, the day when I highlight comments, answer questions and wrap up my week.  Co-hosting with me tomorrow is none other than Donna, from Donna and the Dogs!!

Which Way Do We Go?

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Lately Sampson hasn’t been responding to me when we encounter people or other dogs on our walks.  This means his off-leash privileges have been revoked.  There are still some times and some days when I let him off leash a bit, but for the most part he’s on the long leash the same as Delilah.

I hear too many stories of dogs being lost or stolen and I’d rather not take the chance.  The kicker was the day he ran off, ignoring me completely and followed a couple of fellow hikers.

Sorry Sampson, that doesn’t fly with the Mama.

As those of you who walk more than one dog know, multiple dogs can prove to be challenging.  I’ve been searching for a leash coupler, but the places around me are out of stock on the 24″.  I have found it on-line, but the shipping options suck.  I think it’s ridiculous to pay $10 to ship a $5 leash, especially when I just shipped 95 calendars all for around $5 each.  One of my local stores is ordering a coupler for me but in the meantime, I walk two dogs and deal with the challenges.

What? You've never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

What? You’ve never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

 

At times (depending on my mood) this can be frustrating for me.  But not this day.  This day I chose to find the humor in it.  I took the photo and then I waited.  I waited to see who would move first.  And I thought, I can work with this.

Here’s where you come in.  Remember those Dogs of Blogville Calendars?

 

In order to get the cheapest price, I ordered a few extra.  So I thought, let’s do something fun and give one of those away.

Are you up for the challenge?

In the top photo, we have Sampson to the left side of the tree and Delilah to the right.  In the comments tell me who turned back to me first and which path we ended up taking.  Don’t worry, everyone who comments will go in the drawing for the calendar, you don’t need to have guessed correctly to win.

Random.org will choose the winner, which I’ll announce in next week’s Thanksgiving edition of This ‘N That Thursday. I’ll cut off entries Tuesday night at midnight EST.

Ready. Set. Which Way Do We Go?

If You Love Pets, You MUST Follow a Pet Blogger

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Last week I was super excited to receive a box of goodies from Hill’s.  Now typically you wouldn’t find a post about Hiill’s on my blog, as we are raw feeders and truthfully I’m not a big fan of Hill’s. MIND, I’m not knocking you if you feed Hill’s, I promise.  If it works for you and your dog, great!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Check out the goodies in this box, 1-bag Kibble, 6-cans wet food, 1-doggie food bowl, 1-doggie blanket, 1-bag baked treats.  (This box of goodies I won in a give-away on Hound Girl.)

Full disclosure: I checked out the baked treats and decided that I could use those, so I kept them (in small amounts) for Sampson and Delilah.

So I’m sure you’re wondering just why I got all excited about the package, well even though I don’t feed Hill’s I know there are rescues and shelters that are always looking for donations.  And I was super excited to be able to donate my winnings to a local rescue in my area.  As I was scoping the box out I remembered I also won some dog food from Keep the Tail Wagging and that should be coming in the next month or so!

This got me thinking, how important it is for animal lovers to follow bloggers, whether they blog or not.

Because Bloggers work with sponsors and a lot of Bloggers have contests and product giveaways!  Granted it may not be something that you can use for yourself or your pet, but food, toys, beds, etc can be donated to shelters or rescues in need.

Heck, even other items can be donated to shelters and rescues for the purposes of raffles, tag sales or auctions.  It’s a win-win for everyone involved.

Like right now, a number of my fellow bloggers are doing a Zuke’s giveaway.  I mean Zuke’s is awesome but if for some reason your pet doesn’t eat/like Zuke’s why not enter to win anyway.  Treats make great Christmas gifts for the pet lover in your life and if you don’t have anyone to give them to, you could donate them to your local shelter and help dogs like this gal, who is currently looking for her forever home.

 

All her information can be found in the link under her picture.

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