Heart Like a Dog

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

Damn You Polar Vortex!

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Barks and Bytes

Thank you all for making the inaugural Barks and Bytes Blog hop a rousing success last week!    As you may remember my co-hostess Linda and I had a $25 give away to all participating blogs who linked up and displayed our badge.  I’m excited to report the winner of the Amazon Gift Card was Terri from Time for Poodles and Friends.  Terri has been notified and already received her prize!

On behalf of Linda and I, congratulations to Terri and thank you for all who participated.

Just a reminder, the Barks and Bytes Blog hop was designed for Pet Bloggers (Barks) and non-Pet Bloggers (Bytes) alike, all are welcome to join, we only ask that you mention your hosts (2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog) and display our badge either in the post or on your blog.

Linda and I will be sharing some of our favorite posts on our Facebook pages as well, so we hope you can join us.

You can pick up your badge in my side-bar, or in Linda’s side-bar depending upon which color you prefer.

Heart Like a Dog

 

Damn you Polar Vortex

The weather folks keep talking about this Polar Vortex and all I can tell you is it’s damn cold out there.  Because of Sampson’s injury, we haven’t had many walks, but last night it was still light out when I got home and it wasn’t super cold, so I decided to give the dogs a quick one.  I’ve been strictly enforcing quiet with Sampson after last week’s limping bout, so he’s been fairly well rested.   We made a short trip up the street and back and both dogs were willing to go even farther, but I didn’t want to chance it.

Sampson is seeing the holistic vet this morning for an adjustment to his spine and his follow-up for the partial ACL tear is next Thursday, so any walks he gets will be very minimal.  If the weather is decent and not too cold, I’m going to shoot for a walk with Delilah in our woods this weekend.

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I want to go too.  Please, I’ll give you kisses and I’ll snuggle you real good.

Changes to this Blog

When I took the Pet Blogger Challenge the beginning of this month, I stated there would be changes coming to this blog.  One of the big changes of course was the redesign by Julie from Leg Up Creative.  I also have an idea for a ‘feature’ if you will, that I’m still working on, but my book that I started in November of 2012 has been calling me and I feel the need to answer the call.

This doesn’t mean I’m leaving you!  Jeesh, I just had the redesign done!  What I mean is I want to take a day or two off of blogging and use that time to work on my book.  In order to do that, I want to make sure my time spent blogging is productive and so I need your help.

Please tell me in the comments what kinds of posts you like to see when you visit this blog.   If I’m going to cut back my posts to maybe four per week, one of them being my follow-up post, what type of post would you like to see?

This is Barks and Bytes Blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog, grab the badge and join the fun!

Thursday Barks and Bytes – Coyote Ugly

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Blog Design 

As many of you noticed yesterday I have a new blog design.  The design was done by Julie Melfi from Leg Up Creative Solutions and The Daily Dog Blog.   Every single thing you see on this blog is all Julie.  She chose the colors, the layout, the header and designed the graphic in the header as well.

Can I tell you how much I love this design?

To infinity and beyond.

Julie I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Daily Walks

Our daily walks have become sporadic.  First off it’s dark and I don’t like walking the dogs by myself.  What I started doing was taking Sampson for a very short walk and then coming home and grabbing Delilah and taking her for a longer walk.   One day last week I was walking on the road and Delilah was up on the grass.  We came to a hedge and I can’t tell you how it happened but Delilah was ass over tea kettle rolling on the ground.  Once she got up, she was staring intently into the darkness and I thought, I’m out of here.  I hurried her home so I could examine her in the light to make sure she wasn’t hurt.

Thankfully I couldn’t find anything that indicated she’d hurt herself.

Then last weekend I came down with Diverticulitis and didn’t feel much like walking.  When I did I thought I’d take both dogs for a slow walk up the street, then stop and drop Sampson at the house and continue with Delilah.

Well it snowed Tuesday night into yesterday morning and that Polar Vortex wandered down this way and we couldn’t walk Tuesday night, so last night I thought I’ll walk the dogs.  I leashed them both up and headed up the street.  We’d gotten about four houses up and  Sampson lifted his bad leg.

I thought he probably has snow in his paw, so I wiped it but decided to turn around and head towards home and he limped.  I stopped him in his tracks and called Hubby and said, Come get him, he’s limping.

As of the writing of this post, he hasn’t limped but I’m not taking a chance he could slip on the ice and blow that knee out.  He’s done with walks until we get the all cleared.

Coyote Ugly

Because of our limited walks I decided to try and give Delilah a wood walk on Sunday and we ran into a walking buddy we haven’t seen in eons!

She told me that her partner saw a HUGE coyote in their back yard that morning.

Photo used with permission from my friend Dawn. This is not the same Coyote that is in my area.

Photo used with permission from my friend Dawn. This is not the same Coyote that is in my area.

Their. Back. Yard!  OMG

Just to give you some perspective I made a crude little map.

Coyote

So, my house is that first reddish pin prick at the end of the crude green line.  (Hey I love you guys and all but I’m not putting my home address up…..you have to call first before you stop over.) 🙂  The big red star is the woods where we walk and the red pentagon is where my friend lives.  That red arrow to the left of the pentagon is a rough idea of where she saw the coyote.  In a strait line, it’s probably only about 1/4 mile away.

Yikes!

Barks and Bytes

Welcome to our first Thursday Barks And Bytes Blog Hop!

This is what happens when two blog hops collide!

I am thrilled to be co-hosting the Thursday Barks And Bytes Hop with my pal Linda from 2 Brown Dawgs.

To kick off the new hop we are giving away a $25.00 Amazon gift card.  To enter the give-away, all you have to do is display our badge in your post and enter the hop.  The hop will be open until 11:59 PM on Saturday 1-25-14.  We will draw the winner at random and announce it next Thursday.

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So grab the badge and join the hop!

Follow-Up Friday, January 3, 2014

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the blog hop that wraps up your week and leads you right into the weekend!

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

You Make Me Smile – December 29, 2013

Cupcake said, “Whenever I freeze and stop breathing and stare into the distance, Mom says, “Let’s go. There’s nothing there…” She’s usually wrong.”

Cupcake darling, your comments always make me laugh.

Dawn asked, “I have to take dozens of photos and hope one of them turns out right. How many photos did you have to take to get this perfect one of Sampson and Delilah?”

I think about three.  It’s the rare time I get a great picture right from the get. 🙂

A Christmas Eve Walk

Dawn said, “I have to walk Maya and Pierson one-at-a-time or they will get extremely riled up when they see another dog.”

Which is why Hubby needs to be with me if I venture out of our woods.  Sampson usually just wants to greet, but Delilah is a mixed bag of nuts.  You never know how she will react.

Jan K said, “We LOVE our rail trails! Yours look really nice too. Ours are mostly flat though….I wouldn’t mind more of an elevation gain here and there. They do go high over some rivers and roads, but the trail itself is flat. We can walk right to ours from our house too, which is great, and sometimes I drive to other towns for scenery changes. The only downfall is that once we have a lot of snow we don’t use them. The snowmobilers use them then and I don’t trust that they aren’t out there going too fast for our safety.”

Most of the trail is flat, or you don’t really realize the change in elevation, but in this instance to access the trail, it was a huge climb.

We don’t have to worry about snowmobiles here, motorized vehicles are not allowed on the rail trail down here.

Are You Ready for Some Good Carma?

Jessica said, “I thought the whole point of Golden Doodles was that Poodles made terrible service dogs. It’s nice to see somebody disprove that.”

I thought that too.  I thought (oh I’m going to catch some shit from this statement) poodles were high strung. 🙂

Pamela asked, “Did you meet Carma and her mom at BlogPaws this year?”

Colored Poodle Sadly, I did not.  I only saw one poodle and it was in my Facebook course.  But she was certainly relaxed. 🙂

Then again, she could have been Carma, but if she was I did not know.

This ‘N That Thursday – January 2, 2014

Emma said, “As for the butter…Mom had a similar experience except that Bailie took the top slice of bread off her sandwich which was on the kitchen island about two feet behind Mom’s back. She was going for the entire sandwich but got caught and settled for the bread of which she got about half before Mom attempted to kill her. Well, not really, but there was a lot of nasty yelling going on for sure! Bailie will be a stellar counter surfer when she gets her techniques refined a bit more. I’m proud of her, Mom is not at all pleased! Mom did not eat what was left of the bread, but in your case, she would have eaten the butter.”

LOL Emma, I think Bailie will make a wonderful counter surfer too.  For the record, I would not have eaten the bread and yes, there were some nasty words coming out of my mouth. 🙂

Roxy the Traveling Dog said, “I am glad my dogs are to short to counter surf. I would have used the butter too.”

The counter surfing wouldn’t bother me quite so much if she wasn’t so bold.  She will reach into the trash to pull something out while you are putting something in there. 😀

Frankie and Ernie said, “BaaaaaWaaaah what a way to start the new Year… BUTTER UP !! Our mom would have used it too…WAY TO GO DELILAH!!! WE are PROUD of you… even if your mom isn’t. Did she have Tomato Soup with the Grilled Cheese?? THAT is a super meal.”

No Frankie and Ernie, I covered the soup. 🙂

And Jessica said, “Lots of good challenges. There’s also the fitness challenge that was posted on You Did What With Your Wiener yesterday.”

So there is another blog hop to add to the list!

That’s it for me, have  a great weekend!!



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