Heart Like a Dog

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

Pet Blogger Gift Exchange

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When Pamela over at Something Wagging suggested a Pet Blogger Gift Exchange wherein you are paired with a blogger you get to know and then share “encouragement, compliments, and a little bit of link love” in a blog hop, I said Hell Yeah.

Sign. Me. Up.

Then I got an e-mail from Pamela telling me I was paired with Cokie the Cat’s blog.

Cokie the Cat button

WTF?

A. Cat. Blog.

I almost wrote back, um, excuse me Pamela? I write about….Dogs.   Yes Pamela, Dogs.

Then I paused.  In the spirit for which the blog hop was intended, I held my tongue and thought, my blog is titled Heart Like A dog, what would a dog do?

Stalk the cat?

No, no.  Heart like a dog would give the cat blog a chance!!

Before I even had a chance to check out the blog, I received an e-mail from Kristin, Cokie’s mom. She introduced herself and Cokie of course and told me a little bit about herself.

1) She works in the film industry.  (Can you say Jealous? I’m more of a daytime star kind of girl, but I do know who Jerry Lewis is and yes, she’s working on his latest film!)

2) Her second full-time job is a Special Projects manager for Blog Paws!!  (Super excited about this, helloooo BlogPaws 2013 here I come!)

3) She’s a Twitter genius.  In fact, she has a whole section on her blog with Twitter tips.

4) Kristin has a great sense of humor.  She added me as her friend on Blog Paws and when I told her I’d already been snooping about her blog, she responded with “You’re nosing around my blog?? Well I’m gonna go rub my cheeks all over your! =^..^= Cokes”

5) She shares the love.  The day after we met, she asked her followers on Twitter to follow Heart Like A Dog.

I discovered we also have some things in common.

  • Just like yours truly, she recently moved her blog.  Although she moved from Blogger to WordPress, where I only moved to self-hosted.
  • She recently ran a photo contest on her blog.
  • She wears many hats, besides cat mom, blogger, twitter genius….she also is the co-founder/writer for The Anipal Times.

Have you checked out Cokie the Cat yet?  Well what are you waiting for.  Go on over, say hello and tell them the dog sent you.

And did I mention, this is the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange hosted by Something Wagging.  Go check out the other cool blogs and see how Blogville shares the love.

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list…

WTF Wednesday

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Welcome to WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday.

Some blog post or news article cross your path that left you shaking your head thinking WTF?  Or did you hear about something that raised your spirits and you screamed, Whoo Hoo?

That’s WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday.

My friend Julie from the Daily Dog Blog made me a nice spiffy badge.  Please feel free to use the badge whenever you’d like.

WTF!

Do you remember me?  My name is Jodi.  Back before I took the NaNoWriMo challenge in November I read everyone’s blog and answered every comment left on mine.

When I decided to take the challenge I knew I wouldn’t be able to put in the work for WTF Wednesday and sometimes the stuff that was coming my way was hard to write about, I happily gave it up.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great post occasionally but not for every Wednesday.

Along with dropping WTF Wednesday, I also struggled to keep up with all the blog reading I normally do, I wrote about it and let you all know that I was a bit behind.

Then I stopped answering all the comments on my blog.

WTF Jodi Stone?

This is exactly the reason why I insist on writing a daily blog post, if I miss just one day then I’m afraid I’ll stop blogging all together. 🙁

Any advice that will help me get my stuff together?

I Want a Dog Because….

Last night I saw this in my facebook feed.

Look at that face.

Look at that face.

 

Some asshole idiot went up to a woman on the street, handed her the dog’s leash, threw the adoption papers at her and left.

Really? WTF? Did you think they came already trained?

Here’s a thought. Let’s not buy/adopt dogs unless 1) you know the work and time required to put it into them 2) you’re in it for the long haul. 3) You’re not an abuser.

Thankfully the woman who the dog was handed off to lives next door to one of the Bully Project’s principals.  The pup is very ill and currently receiving emergency care.  The last I knew they still didn’t know what was wrong with her.

If you’re looking for an end of year donation, you can donate on their website here, I’m not even sure if she has a name yet.

Can I get a Whoo Hoo

Here’s my Whoo Hoo from this week.  The calendars arrived in time for me to get them out before Christmas, hopefully those of you in the states have received your calendars.  If you haven’t they should be arriving any moment, they were sent Priority Mail on Saturday with delivery promised in two to three days.

If you haven’t received them by Friday, let me know.  I’ll try to check the tracking later today.

That’s it for me, did you have any WTF or Whoo Hoos this week?

Merry Christmas!

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Today is a day of traditions.

We’ll start our day with a nice walk in the woods.

Three dogs walking.

Three dogs walking.

 

Settle in with a cup of Irish coffee.

And enjoy our time with family and friends.

We hope your Christmas is all of this and more.

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Whatever your traditions are, take a moment to thank our service men and women, many of them aren’t with their families this year.

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