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This ‘N That Thursday

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Welcome to This ‘N That Thursday hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.  It’s the blog hop that has some of this and a little of that and everything in between.  Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog for this awesome hop!

Let’s get to it, shall we?

Out Foxed Again

Yesterday morning I went outside to empty the dehumidifier.  Sampson loves this part of the morning.  He goes outside with me and sniffs around checking to see what types of visitors we’ve had during the night.  He is very thorough in his investigations, giving special attention to areas of the lawn where  he’s certain something has trodden.

It was a quiet, cool morning and we stood in the driveway just enjoying the break from the heat and humidity.(Sometimes he just stands in the driveway surveying the neighborhood, like a King surveying his Kingdom. )

I was facing the street and Sampson was facing the lawn when I saw him cock his head.  I knew he’d seen something so as I turned my head to look I said, “Leave it.”

Thank Dog he’s got a solid leave it.  That dang fox ran down our front lawn and across the street disappearing somewhere in the neighbor’s yard.

Can you imagine if it had been Delilah?  I’d still be running.

And where was my camera?  In the freaking house!!  Out foxed again.  One of these days little fox, I will get a decent picture of you.

When we want back inside the house, Sampson immediately went to the door leading to the upstairs.  When I didn’t move towards it, he came back and Roo’ed at me to open the door.  Such a smart boy!

Reading and Commenting on Blog Posts

I’m so far behind in reading and commenting.  I’m trying to catch up, I really am.  I guess taking almost two weeks off has a tendency to put one behind.

As of right now I have over 700 posts in my feeder.  I’ve caught up on a few blogs, just know if you see a random comment here and there, it’s because I’m trying to catch up and I just can’t comment on every single post. 🙁

If there’s something important I need to know, please share it with me in the comments or drop me a private message via facebook or e-mail.

The Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

Don’t forget to get  your pictures in for this Calendar Contest.  In years to come you’ll be able to say, “My dog was March 2014.”  Yes. You. Will.

So far we have five entries.

What Will Delilah do for a piece of fruit?

I will sit pretty for a piece of frozen pineapple. Yes I will.

I will sit pretty for a piece of frozen pineapple. Yes I will.

 

For those of you who missed it, here is the promised video with my wild and highly food motivated lab.

Follow-Up Friday

Guess what?  I coerced a newbie to co-host tomorrow’s hop.  I hope you’re as excited as I am!  I will be joined tomorrow by none other than Flea from Jones Natural Chews!

 

2nd Annual Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

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The Daily Dog Blog and Heart Like a Dog are proud to announce the 2nd annual Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest.

Since this is only the second time we have done this, we’re still learning, but we do have SOME rules.

They go like this:

  1. We (The Daily Dog Blog and Heart Like a Dog) make the rules.
  2. Submission portion of contest begins immediately.
  3. Photos are limited to one photo per blog (so we can showcase as many dogs as possible.)  If you have more than one dog that represents your blog you can either submit one dog or a photo with both (all) your dogs.
  4. Dogs who have crossed the bridge are eligible to participate.
  5. Photos should be submitted to stone.jodi@ymail.com AND julesmelfi@gmail.com
  6. No photo editing allowed.  Any editing deemed necessary will be done by Julie.
  7. Photo should be a good, high resolution digital image (11″ x  8½” @ 300 dpi output, the largest setting on minimum 6MP camera.) Best quality images are approximately 2832 pixels by 2128 pixels at 300 dpi and a minimum of 1MB.(I have no idea what this means, but thankfully Julie does!)
  8. We strongly suggest your photo is oriented in Landscape as opposed to Portrait.  (This makes for easier formatting when designing the calendar.
  9. Submission portion of contest ends Tuesday, August 20th at midnight.
  10. We reserve the right to use your submitted photo on our blogs for promotional purposes only, with credit given to the photo/blog owner of course!
  11. Voting will begin Saturday, August 24th at 12:01 AM and end Saturday, August 31st at 11:59 PM.
  12. Voting is limited to once every 24 hours. (More instructions when the voting process begins.)

Last year our Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest raised right around $500 which was donated to Roxanne Hawn at Champion of My Heart. This year our fundraising efforts will be for Benny The Frenchie.

For those of you new to this blog, you can read all about last year’s contest here.

All I can say is the contest exceeded my expectations, and Julie designed a damn fine, high quality calendar that I’ve been enjoying all year.

I mean really, how can you look at this picture every day in August and not smile?

Frankie and Ernie

Frankie and Ernie

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Yup, it’s Frankie and Ernie from FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking.

Last year we had 20 dogs enter the contest and I’m very pleased to say that Julie managed to fit all the dogs in the calendar.  Of course there are no guarantees we can do that again this year, it all depends on the number of entries.

So start digging through your photos or grab your camera and your dog(s) and start snapping. 🙂  You’ve got one week.

Now go!

Update to yesterday.  Yes, I got the video to load on YouTube (and after it did I flipped a big middle finger to Apple, take that!) so as I promised, here is the video showing exactly WHAT Delilah will do for a frozen piece of pineapple.

It’s a Piece of Fruit

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When I found out today was the two-year anniversary for the Tasty Tuesday blog hop I wanted to participate.  I had the option of baking something, sharing a frozen treat or showing what my dog would do for fruit.

Of course we all know I have the best intentions when it comes to making treats for my dogs but I rarely do.  When I’m going in the kitchen to bake it’s generally for myself.  I know what a selfish bitch.

I don’t do a lot of new frozen treats and when I do, I usually share them on the hop.

That left me with showing what my dog would do for a piece of fruit.  I chose Delilah to represent.

Delilah is food motivated.  No secret there.  In fact she’s so food motivated it is sometimes difficult to work with her, she’s so damn enthusiastic.  One of the first times I used the clicker she was so focused on the food in my hand she couldn’t do anything.  I asked a trainer how to get her to focus on something other than the food.  She said use a food with a lesser value.  I didn’t have the heart to tell her I was using a canned green bean.

It’s a bountiful fruit time in the northeast, yet I had no fresh fruit available, so I turned to my freezer.

We started off with a bowl of frozen pineapple.

We started off with a bowl of frozen pineapple.

I will sit for a frozen piece of pineapple. Yes I will.

Will I sit for a frozen piece of pineapple? Yes I will.

 

I will down for a frozen piece of pineapple. Yes I will.

Will I down for a frozen piece of pineapple? Yes I will.

 

I will sit pretty for a piece of frozen pineapple. Yes I will.

Will I sit pretty for a piece of frozen pineapple? Yes I will.

 

I will wiggle on my back for a piece of frozen pineapple. Yes I will.

Will I wiggle on my back for a piece of frozen pineapple? Yes I will.

 

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but it certainly cannot convey Delilah’s enthusiasm for this little bowl of pineapple in my hands.

Would you like to see what else I'll do for a piece of frozen pineapple Mama?

Would you like to see what else I’ll do for a piece of frozen pineapple Mama?  Yes I would Delilah.

 

So we shot a little video.  Except I transferred it to the Mac and deleted it from the camera in the process.  And I couldn’t upload the video to You Tube.

For the record, I’m pissed off.  At You Tube.  And myself.  But after talking with my IT person at work, I have hopes that I can figure it out, but not until I’m home sitting in front of the Mac.

I’m sorry.  I screwed up and you got screwed out of a cute video.  With any luck, I will have it available tonight and I will update this post and include the video in This ‘N That Thursday as well as Follow-Up Friday.

Keep your fingers crossed.

Congratulations to Jodi Chick and her awesome blog, Kol’s Notes and her fantastic co-host Sugar the Golden Retriever for sharing and celebrating Tasty Tuesday’s for two years!   We look forward to sharing many more with you.

UPDATE:  Yes!  I figured it out.  Without further ado, here is proof of what Delilah will do for a piece of frozen pineapple.

If it doesn’t work, click here.

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