Heart Like a Dog

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

Obstacles – Be The Dog

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Before I start this post I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to Chuck and Collies of the Meadow, last week they bestowed their Collies Choice award on this blog.  If you have a minute pop over and say hello to Chuck.  His collie Trevor is failing and I’m sure a kind word would make him feel better.

Sampson is a people dog.  Don’t let his enthusiastic run up to your dog fool you, once the greeting is over he will be leaning on your leg encouraging you to pet him.

When we pulled up to the park yesterday morning Bob and Marge (a couple we’ve met on the trail) were just walking in.  Sampson was super excited.  By the time I opened the door to let the dogs out Bob and Marge had made their way into the field.

Sampson jumped out of the car and started to run up the path.  He’s usually very good about not getting too far ahead of me and apparently he had reached his comfort zone and turned around and came back to me.

Being a projective thinker I figured by the time we got to the field they would be long gone.

I was wrong.

They were stretching.  Still I felt like we shouldn’t bother them, so despite the eager look in Sampson’s eyes, I told him, no let’s go this way.

We headed up the hill.

I enjoy the hikes as much as the dogs but I usually let them choose the walk, and yesterday Sampson chose to head back to the field.  Not being a projective thinker, he assumed Bob and Marge would be where he left them.

Sampson was wrong, but that doesn’t matter.  What matters is being the dog, he found a way around his obstacle (which was me not allowing him into the field.)

Sampson came at his obstacle from a different direction.

You can over-come your obstacles. Be The Dog.

 

What kind of obstacles are preventing you from achieving your goals? What can you do to over-come them?

Don’t let obstacles get in your way.

Be The Dog.

Blogville Love

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People get to know each other by sharing. 

Case in point, about 6 weeks ago I met my friend Margaret at a baby shower.  You may remember me speaking about Margaret (and her awesome dog, Chase) in this post. 

When I ran into Margaret she gave me a warm hug and said, “I feel like I know you so much better because I read your blog.” 

No matter how or what we write about, we end up sharing bits of ourself.   What I have learned about the awesome people who share my blogosphere is that they are kind and very generous.

When I wrote my post about the Kreativ Blogger and Liebster Award I also said I had another award to share with you.  I know you have all been on pins and needles waiting for it, so without further ado, I will reveal that I have been given “The Collie’s Choice Award” from my dear blogging friend Misty Shores Chesapeakes.

If you haven’t checked Misty out yet you should pop over and see what she’s up to.  Her sweet Chessie, Riva recently had a litter and Misty decided to keep two of the pups!  I can’t believe it either, I thought housebreaking, training and raising one puppy was tough!

Ok, truthfully Sampson was an easy dog to housebreak and raise.  I can’t complain about HIM. 

Delilah on the other hand, well good lord you can’t imagine the things she’s gotten into these past three days.  I will simply say, we are down to our last half stick of butter and leave it at that.  Actually I do have more to say, but I am saving that for my Follow-Up Friday post, when I update “Death by Chocolate.”

Sooo.. on to the Collie’s Choice Award, you may have noticed the badge in the side-bar, I had never heard of the Collie’s of the Meadow before being bestowed the award.  I just popped over there and read an account of a re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand; Collie style.  Somehow I think it was fabricated JUST a bit, but I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

The Collie’s Choice award is given to “The Best of the Net.”   If you’ve been given the award you are encouraged to pass it along. 

That’s it.  No other rules.  No sharing of intimate things.  No linking to past posts.  Just pass it along.

I’ve given this a lot of thought and I have decided to pass the award along to Kristine at Rescued Insanity. 

If you’ve been around the blogosphere at all, chances are you read Kristine’s blog or you’ve seen a well thought out comment with her name next to it.

If for some strange reason you’ve never heard of Kristine, well I can truthfully say, you don’t know what you are missing.   Kristine works extensively with her dog Shiva and in MHO they are both serious blog stars.  If you enjoy Delilah’s stories, well you will enjoy Shiva’s just as much.

Thanks once again to Misty Shores.

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