Heart Like a Dog

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

Who's Eating The Cat Food?

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog post for this special announcement.

I forgot all about the Mr. Chewy giveaway!!  After putting the comments thru random.org, the winner of the Mr. Chewy $50 gift certificate is…..drum roll please…..Mami2jcn .  Please send me your e-mail address and I will send you all the details!

Weekends are tough in my house, if I don’t have anywhere special to be it’s very easy for me to sit on the couch with my computer in my lap and just….well sit.

Hubby left early to go work on his jeep, so when I got up I fed the dogs and then Bob, made myself a cup of tea and fired up the laptop.

I was intently involved in catching up on some blog reading when a weird sound penetrated my concentration.  It was the distinct sound of a dish tapping against the wall, which meant Bob had his dish against the wall and was working it pretty good.  Then I looked up and saw Bob sitting in front of me.

Damn it Delilah!  Then I saw Delilah curled up on the couch.

When Delilah joined our pack I had hoped that some of Sampson’s good behavior would rub off on her, I certainly didn’t expect some of her bad habits to rub off on him!

He had pushed the gate that keeps the dogs out of the room in on one corner and was lying on the floor eating what was left of poor little Bob’s cat food.

I know I found it hard to believe myself, so I took a picture as proof.

If you look closely you can see how the gate is pushed in on the bottom left.

How is it that bad habits rub off, but good ones don’t?

Book update: It is the same as yesterday.

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! 🙂

Foster Opportunity – Update

My friend who asked about me fostering Nikko assures me that Nikko will be taken care of.   My goal would be to try to get to see Nikko and maybe introduce him to Sampson and Delilah so they could possibly have a play date.  I will see what I can do, but I know I can’t take Nikko for a full year.

I’m Sorry If I Offended You McDonalds – Update

There was certainly a lot of talk and publicity about this ad, not surprising none of it was from McDonald’s.  I checked the internet but couldn’t find one thing besides the initial retraction.  I wish someone would call for a ban on McDonald’s, if only for just one day.  Wouldn’t that let them know loud and clear where people stand?

The next day however, my awesome niece posted this picture on my facebook page, don’t you just love it!

We were discussing the ad after obedience class last night and I heard (not verified) that the ice machines at McDonald’s in CT were inspected and they had mold growing inside them!  And McDonald’s has the nuggets to put down pit bulls!

That’s another Follow-Up Friday wrap, how did you wrap your week?

Book Update:  My book has 10,459 words.

Pep Squad

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True confession, I always wanted to be cheerleader when I was in high school, problem was that I wasn’t exactly athletic and no one would ever accuse me of being popular, the two criteria in my high school for being a cheer leader.

You may be aware I have two very different dogs.

So when I am ready to go to bed and I say, “Who wants to do pee pee?” I get two very different reactions.

As soon as I make a move to get off the couch, or shut down my laptop, Delilah will jump up from her cozy spot on the couch and head for the door.

Sampson who eats his 9:00pm treat in the bedroom has already called it a night.  At this point I have three choices.

1)  I can just let Delilah out and leave Sampson (honestly he can hold it a very long time, especially if it’s raining.)

2)  I can go in and literally drag Sampson off the bed, where he will reluctantly walk to the back door and casually step outside.

Or I can become a cheer leader, fulfilling my high school dream and getting my dogs to go outside in the process.

It goes something like this, “Who wants to go pee pee?”

Delilah jumps up and we walk to the back door and then I say very loudly and excitedly:

“Do you see it?  Do you have it?  Are you going to get it?  You got it?  Do you have your eye on it?  Ready?  Are you ready?  Ok.  Ready, ready go get it!”

At my first words of “Do you see it?”  Sampson has un-assed himself from bed and rushed to the door, I then finish my pep talk, and it deviates in any  number of ways, but the gist is all basically the same.  There is something outside that you absolutely MUST see.

“Ready, one, two, three, GO!”  I open the door and they burst through the doorway like speeding locomotives.

After I shut the door behind them, I usually chuckle as I pat myself on the back. 🙂  I made the squad!

Book update: I have 10,157 words!!

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