Heart Like a Dog

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

Twisted Awards

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Our friends over at Dogs N Pawz nominated us for not one, but two awards!  I mentioned in last Sunday’s post that I had more awards to share, and I thought today would be a nice day to do so.

The first award is The One Lovely Blog Award.

Thank you most kindly to our friends at Dogs N Pawz.

The rules for this award are:

Thank the blogger bestowing the award and provide a link back to their blog.

Share seven things about yourself.

Share the award with seven other bloggers.

  • My favorite non-alcoholic drink is seltzer water.  Plain old seltzer water.
  • I like my seltzer (and water when I have it) to be served at room temperature.
  • My favorite alcoholic drink is Tequila.  I love it in Margaritas but am also quite content to just throw back some shots. 🙂
  • My favorite way to drink coffee is with Irish Cream, I will settle for Cafe’ Petrone if the Irish Cream is unavailable.
  • Fall is my favorite time of year, spring is my second favorite.
  • I love to bake, especially in fall.
  • I suck at tweeting.

The second award we received from Dogs N Pawz was the Beautiful Blogger Award.

Thank you again to our friends over at Dogs N Pawz.

The requirements to this award are thank the blogger, provide a link back to their blog and nominate seven other blogs.

Sharing the links is always the hard part for me, as there are so many blogs that I love reading.

Vizsla Inspiration – Anna the photographer and Luna her four-legged side kick. Anna and Luna are always perfecting a new trick. I seem to recall she taught Luna how to close the refrigerator.  Maybe I should just send Delilah to Anna? 🙂

Talking Dogs Blog – Not only does Sue make some pretty dog-gone awesome jewelry, at least once a week she features an adoptable dog from her local humane society.  I’m putting some of her pieces on my Christmas wish list. 😉

Oh Corbin – What can I say.  I love Corbin, I love how he looks and I love how his mom fosters.  She is awesome and works really hard in rescue to make sure her pups find their forever homes.

Murray’s Mouth – I recently started following this blog.  She’s got a dream for a dog park too.  🙂  Her latest post has some great cost saving tips, to help your furry friend’s budget in these tough economic times.

Bassa’s Blog – I have it from a reliable source our little Caucasian Shepherd is going to be two years old very soon.  She finds the most interesting things on her daily walks with the tall person.

Fabulous Flo – Flo is a fabulous Rhodesian Ridgeback and if her craziness wasn’t enough, her mum just added a second little (for now) Ridgeback to their pack.  I think little Elsie is creating more havoc than Flo ever did!

Little Dogs On Long Leashes – It really is a dog blog.  Recently she’s been sorting through her treasures and taking us on a trip down nostalgia lane.  She promises the dog will have something to say in the very near future. 🙂

Like I said in the beginning, it’s the awards with a twist.  And here’s the twist. 🙂

I know that sometimes these awards really make their way around blogville and while I tried to check and make sure you haven’t just received this award, I’m giving you the option of choosing which award you’d like.

I look forward to seeing your choices and discovering more great blogs, which is the really neat thing about these awards.:-)

Well we’re off for our daily walk, happy reading!

I’ll leave you with a couple of pictures of what the dogs chased yesterday morning.

It took me a minute to locate him way up there on the tree.

 

A zoomed in shot, you can see his little glowing eyes.

 

I’ve seen them run a short way up a tree, but I’ve never seen one climb so high. Did you know they can climb trees?   What’s the most interesting thing you’ve ever seen on a walk?

Dogcula

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I spent some time on youtube last night looking for some positive training methods of teaching a dog to take a treat gently.

Honestly you’d think after five years of screaming in pain every time we give Delilah a treat, one of us would learn.

Either we would figure out how to teach her in a way that she’d remember, we’d learn to tell her easy or she would learn how not to amputate fingers when she took a treat.

It is one of the harder aspects of using positive reinforcements for me.

Yes it’s true.

Delilah is Dogcula.

I am constantly cursing because she’s bitten my finger.  Last winter I couldn’t figure out why my middle finger kept hurting.  (While it’s true I do use that finger frequently, it’s not being used in a manner to cause pain…for me.)

Last night when giving her a treat, she drew blood.

Granted it was a small puncture, but it bled none-the-less.  After treating it with antibiotic cream, I spent some time on youtube looking for some positive methods to teach a dog to take a treat gently.

None of the videos I watched really taught me much (okay, you caught me, I only watched two, but neither one was very helpful.)

I gave up on youtube pretty quickly because I’m just lazy I’d much rather turn to my friends and see how they manage their dogs.

What’s a few fingers when I’m so stinkin’ cute?

 

So tell me, do you have Dogcula’s living in your house, or have you taught them to take treats gently?  If so, how did you do it?

I thank you and my hands thank you.

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby!

Not THAT Kind Of Dog – Author’s Note

In the comments Donna and the Dogs Toby noted If a dog runs up in Delilah’s face, then she’s got every right to nip it.

You see Toby, that’s how it works in the dog world, but the peoples, the peoples just don’t understand dogese.  They get a little freaked out when one dog nips at another dog.

What we need is a translator, someone who can teach the peoples what they really need to know about dogs.  Maybe in between writing your blogs, you could teach us? 😉

Monday Mischief Delilah Style – Author’s Note

Many of you noted this in the comments, but damn, that dog is talented.  She moved a two-pound box off a counter and at least 12 feet, but never tore the box.

Maybe I’m wasting her talents in the agility ring?

What’s Your Pooping Style – Author’s Note

Why can’t I write funny posts like this all the time?  Why must my funny posts all be poop related?

This ‘N That Thursday – Author’s Note

I hooked a number of suckers A number of you said you would like to participate in the Follow-Up Friday blog hop.

I’ve already started working on this and will be doing a bit more research over the weekend.  From the comment that Jetty left me, I found out there is more than one linky tool.  Can any of you that use a linky tool tell me if there is one that is better or easier than the other?  Do any of them work with the free wordpress account?

I hope to have some more information for you next week.  For those of you with the free wordpress account, don’t worry, you can still co-host, simply put a link in your post that says get your code here and list this website.  I did that myself when I had the free account.

If all goes well perhaps we can hop as early as next week.

Kristine noted all the leaves already on the ground in the pictures I posted yesterday, while there are a few from this current season, most of those leaves that are on the ground are from the storm we had in October.

You may have also noticed that some of the trees look pretty scarce in the leaf department, there were a lot of damaged trees in that storm and a lot of them didn’t recover this season.

There are still so many dead limbs just hanging up around here, every time we have some wind, or a rain storm more limbs/trees come down.

The background in this picture is blurry, but I think you can still make out the huge tree limb on the side of the trail.

Just one of many branches that are still falling.

That about wraps up our week, we’re weekend bound.  Any big plans coming up or any news you’d like to share?

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